Maurya A. Couvares ’06 MCAS Cofounder and Executive Director, ScriptEd Brooklyn, New York influence: Junior Year Abroad, Oxford
ScriptEd is a national nonprofit that teaches computer programming to students in underserved schools and prepares them through paid internships for technology careers. Before she developed ScriptEd, Couvares taught middle school for Teach for America and was coordinator of the pro bono practice group at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Recognized as a New York Business Journal Woman of Influence and a New York City Catalyst, she is an IgniteGood/Huffington Post Millennial Impact Fellow, and a speaker at TEDxNYED.
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Juma K. Crawford
Juma K. Crawford, j.d.’06 Executive Director, Lewis Family Foundation Cambridge, Massachusetts
A California native who also holds degrees from Amherst College and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Crawford leads programs that aim to increase college graduation rates for residents of Boston’s Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan neighborhoods. He is the former executive director of Friends of the Children-Boston, a nonprofit that provides mentors for disadvantaged youth, and was a founding teacher at Dorchester’s Codman Academy Charter School, principal of the Community Charter School of Cambridge, and head of school at College Bound Dorchester. He was featured in Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in 2015.
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