Fast Company Profiles Next100’s Mission to ‘Train the Next Generation of Innovative Policymakers’ – Next100
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Fast Company Profiles Next100’s Mission to ‘Train the Next Generation of Innovative Policymakers’

Fast Company spoke with Next100 executive director Emma Vadehra.

For Fast Company, Adele Peters talked to Next100 executive director Emma Vadehra about Next100’s purpose and inspiration, and how we plan to empower the next generation of policy leaders. The feature showcases how Next100 is trying to build a new pipeline, by offering people who want to create better policy the same kind of support as those working in social enterprise or the private market.

“What is exciting is the opportunity to focus on these major policy levers for change, whether it’s about improving schools or fixing the immigration system or the climate crisis, but coming at it from a far more innovative approach.”

 

Read the full Fast Company article here.

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Emma Vadehra Education + Early Years

Emma Vadehra was the founder and former executive director of Next100. She previously served as chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretaries Arne Duncan and John B. King, Jr. and as senior education counsel for the late senator Edward M. Kennedy. She is an education policy wonk, an advocate for progressive policy change, and a believer in the next generation.

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