Talia Milgrom-Elcott: Leading the Movement to Train and Retain STEM Teachers

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Talia Milgrom-Elcott is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of 100Kin10, an unprecedented movement to train and retain 100,000 excellent STEM teachers by 2021. With 100Kin10, Milgrom-Elcott is building a new type of collective-impact effort, with more than 250 leading organizations from across sectors coming together to collaborate, learn from one another, and together tackle challenges that none could successfully address on its own.

Milgrom-Elcott’s work was called out as “the most important effort” in STEM teacher preparation by the New York Times in 2013, was celebrated onstage by President Clinton as his favorite commitment to come out of CGI America, and was applauded by President Obama in a personalized video address to the 100Kin10 network in 2014. In 2015, she was called a “leading STEM communicator” by the White House.