Drink It In with Reid Saaris *New Date*
| When |
Apr 04, 2012
from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM |
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| Where | The Studio at Hotel 1000, 1000 First Avenue (between 1st & Madison in downtown Seattle) |
| Contact Name | Marlene Rapues |
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Join Reid Saaris, Founder and Director of Equal Opportunity Schools, and SVP Partners for drinks and discussion! EOS is a first-year SVP Investee, and our Drink It In happy hour is a great way to learn more about them and meet other SVP Partners in a fun and casual setting.
This event is a part of our ongoing Drink It In series, which are enjoyed over light appetizers and beverages in a social setting including a brief conversational program featuring a community leader and/or one of our Partners who has been significantly involved in a particular issue area.
The "programed" part of these evenings is fairly short (15 minutes) then we open it up to discussion and Q & A from the audience, preceded and followed by social time. Appetizers will be provided with a no-host bar.
More about Reid
Reid Saaris graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in government, magna cum laude, and the certification to teach secondary school social studies. His thesis received the Thomas Hoopes Prize for Excellence. Our Latest Generation: The Civic Greatness of Young Americans disputed the idea that young Americans are disengaged and apathetic, and traced the political inequalities back to inequity in educational opportunities.
After graduating, Saaris coached soccer and cross-country running and taught history, economics, philosophy, and psychology at a large, rural high school in South Carolina for three years. In his last year, he was promoted to an administrative position, heading the AP and IB programs at the school. He committed to ensure that no student in the school would be overlooked for participation in AP or IB because of the color of their skin or the size of their parents’ paycheck.
When the IB program grew by more than two times to become the largest in the state, Saaris believed he had found a relatively simple, high-impact reform that could transform the lives of missing students across the country. He founded Equal Opportunity Schools, and wrote a paper for the Education Trust in Washington, D.C., on the missing students problem. While attending the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and School of Education, he ran EOS’s first district-level partnership with the San Jose Unified School District. He received Stanford’s only 2010 Social Innovation Fellowship, and is currently a Draper Richards Kaplan and an Echoing Green Fellow.
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