About
Give every student a real audience.
A New York nonprofit. We make sure students do real work, defend it before people who know the field, and publish the proof.
Born in Harlem, 2015.
We started as Friends of Harlem Renaissance High School, a community that packed a room to watch its students present. Everything since has been that room, made bigger.
The village, gathered to witness.
Before writing, a griot told the story that mattered to the people who would carry it. Our seal is that gathering, drawn for video. The dots are heads in the audience and pixels on a screen, ringed around the work as it plays. It is every room that gathers for one student's work: the orchestra, the newsroom, the robotics lab. It is the circle of the spotlight, and it falls on one student at a time.
“No one educates anyone, and no one educates themselves. We educate one another, mediated by the world.”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Half of it is young, by design.
The people a school serves should help govern it. Founder Nadav Zeimer and executive director Razelle Townsend lead the board, with Natalie Viderman rebuilding the youth half.