COVID-19 and an intense national focus on racial equity have changed the way social entrepreneurs work and their vision for the future of education. Leaders and their organizations have evolved their models amidst the crisis to pursue new pathways to take on systemic inequities.

“So, I’m hearing a number of calls to action, and what you all have said…invest in understanding the community’s needs and proximate leaders to advance communities to support against communities’ needs,” Shruti Sehra, managing partner at New Profit, where she its education portfolio.” I’m hearing about the combination of using social and political capital to advance policies and thinking about how do we support, on the other side of this, when our when our systems, our district leaders, states, superintendents of education and whatnot have the space to think  [about] supporting collaboration between innovators like this group, and those systems leaders to say: How can we change these systems and rearchitect them?”

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