Past summits

Los Angeles Alumni Summit – April 25, 2009
More than 300 alumni and corps members heard from Ramon C. Cortines, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Steve Barr, Founder and Chairman of Green Dot Public Schools, the Honorable Jack Scott, Chancellor of California Community Colleges, the Honorable Jackie Goldberg, Faculty Advisor at UCLA Teach/Compton, and Steve Zimmer (Los Angeles '92), Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member Elect, among many others during the summit in Los Angeles. Click here to see photos of the event. Learn more

New York City Alumni Summit – November 15, 2008
Nearly 1,000 alumni and corps members heard from Joel Klein, New York City Schools chancellor, Cami Anderson (Los Angeles '93), Senior Superintendent, District 79, Dave Levin (Houston '92), Co-founder, KIPP, Kira Orange Jones (Greater New Orleans '00), executive director of Teach For America • New Orleans, Chris Cerf, Deputy Chancellor, New York City Department of Education, and Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach For America among many others, during the summit in New York City. Click here to see photos of the event. Learn more

Bay Area Alumni Summit – October 4, 2008
Nearly 500 alumni and corps members heard from Eric Scroggins, executive director of Teach For America • Bay Area, Jason Fish, chairman of Teach For America • Bay Area Advisory Board, and the Honorable George Miller (D-CA) Chair, House Committee on Education and Labor, among many others, during the summit in San Francisco. Click here to see photos of the event. Learn more

Metro D.C. Alumni Summit - April 5, 2008
Nearly 500 alumni and corps members heard from John Deasy, superintendent of Prince George's County Public Schools, Adrian Fenty, Mayor of Washington, D.C., Walter Isaacson, president and chief executive officer of the Aspen Institute, David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Service and professor at Harvard University, Michael Lomax, president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund, and Michelle Rhee (Baltimore '92), chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, among many others, during the summit in Washington, D.C. Learn more

Mid-Atlantic Corps and Alumni Summit – February 16, 2008

More than 500 corps members and alumni heard from Edward Rendell, goveror of Pennsylvania, Michael Nutter, mayor of Philadelphia, and John Schnur, chief executive officer and co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools, among many others, during the summit in Philadelphia. Learn more

Texas Alumni Summit – February 9, 2008

Nearly 400 alumni and corps members heard from David Dewhurst, lieutenant governor of Texas, and Philip "Uri" Treisman, professor of mathematics and public affairs and executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center for Educational Innovation at the University of Texas-Austin, among many others, during the summit in Houston. Click here to see photos of the event. Learn more

Boston Alumni Summit – November 3, 2007
More than 200 alumni heard from Harry Spence, former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, Jackie Jenkins-Scott, president of Wheelock College, and Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach For America, among many others, during the region’s first-ever alumni summit. Click here to see photos of the event. Learn more

15th Anniversary National Alumni Summit – October 8, 2005
Two thousand Teach For America alumni, corps members and guests convened in Washington, D.C. to hear from speakers like Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.), Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, and many alumni and other social justice leaders, to network with employers, and to reconnect with each other.

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