Educate!





Educate! envisions a future where the education system in Uganda, and elsewhere in Africa, develops youth to be leaders and entrepreneurs. We are the only organization working to scale a proven model through the education system to directly enable young people to take leadership initiative, create small businesses and improve their livelihoods. In 2013 we reached 8,000 students with full programming, and an additional 25,000 students with our entrepreneurship course integrated into Uganda’s national curriculum. In 2014, we are scaling our model to reach more than 20,000 students across over 200 schools, a first step en route to Educate!’s 10-year vision of serving one million students annually across ten countries, including 100,000 students annually across 1,000 schools in Uganda.

  • Industry: Education
  • Year Started: 2009
  • Organization Type: Non-Profit
  • # of Employees: 65 ( as of Dec 31, 2013)
www.experienceeducate.org
 

Boris Bulayev

Executive Director

Boris Bulayev is the co-founder and Executive Director of Educate!, a high growth social enterprise that provides leadership and entrepreneurship training, mentorship, and experience starting a business to secondary school students in Uganda, with the goal of integrating the model into the national curriculum. Boris’s leadership and progressive vision is regularly recognized in the entrepreneurship community. Boris is a Startingbloc fellow, a recipient of the 2011 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize, and a Forbes Top 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur in 2012 and 2013. Boris is a 2007 graduate of Amherst College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Before moving to Educate! full-time, Boris worked at the startup incubator Loeb Enterprises where he learned the fundamentals about entrepreneurship and starting companies. Boris emigrated from Latvia at age 7 and currently lives in New York City.

  • Age: 38
 

Angelica Towne

Country Director

Angelica is a graduate of Middlebury College and joined Educate! as its first paid staff member in July 2008. Angelica brought experience creating curricula in Jamaica and the U.S., and joined Educate! as a natural outgrowth of her passion for helping youth become changemakers in their communities. Angelica developed the program that is the Educate! Experience today. Working with various partners she designed this curriculum to meet students where they are, to help build their confidence, and to utilize that self-reliance to become leaders and entrepreneurs. Angelica launched the first Educate! Experience model in March of 2009 and currently serves as Educate!'s Country Director, splitting her time between Kampala and New York City.

  • Age: 37
 

Eric Glustrom

Board Member

Eric Glustrom is a founder of Educate! and Watson University, two organizations spreading mentorship-driven leadership and entrepreneurship education throughout Uganda, the US and beyond through open-source replication. Watson University (based in the US) selects students with promising ideas to solve complex global challenges then provides the mentorship, training and networks to help advance their solutions. Eric has been recognized as an Ashoka fellow, Echoing Green fellow, and one of Forbes 30 social entrepreneurs under 30, Eric’s work is driven by a simple belief: to solve the toughest challenges facing humanity, the place to start is within the hearts and minds of the next generation.

  • Age: 39
 
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