Amy Klement

Managing Partner, Board Member

Localização: United States

Área de Foco: Littlest Learners / Growing Learners / Adult Learners

Região: Global

Amy é sócia diretora e membro do Conselho da Imaginable Futures. Lidera a equipe e a estratégia da Imaginable Futures e é responsável perante o Conselho por administrar a organização.

Antes de entrar na Imaginable Futures, Amy era sócia da Omidyar Network e começou a liderar a iniciativa de educação em 2013. Antes desta função, foi responsável pelo trabalho da Omidyar Network nas iniciativas de Inclusão financeira, Direitos de Propriedade e Internet e Dispositivos Móveis de algumas geografias chave. Ocupou cargos de conselheira no Teach For All, Andela, NewGlobe (mais conhecida pelas escolas comunitárias Bridge), Imagine Worldwide, Kiva, Living Goods, Social Finance US, Mimoni e Off Grid Electric.

Antes da Omidyar Network, Amy trabalhou para o eBay, onde atuou como vice-presidente de estratégia de produtos e operações, conduzindo o desenvolvimento da visão de longo prazo do produto da empresa e liderando a experiência de usuário e o design, além de atuar como vice-presidente de marketing de relacionamento, liderando a área de canais de marketing de retenção. Amy também trabalhou no PayPal, sendo uma das primeiras funcionárias da empresa, em 1999. Como vice-presidente de produtos, Amy e sua equipe desenvolveram a plataforma de pagamentos da empresa, facilitaram a expansão internacional para a Europa e Ásia e foram fundamentais no lançamento do PayPal Mobile. Anteriormente, Amy trabalhou em estratégia e desenvolvimento corporativo na Gap Inc., e como analista na JPMorgan.

Q+A

POR QUE VOCÊ ADORA VIR TRABALHAR?

Liberar o potencial humano! Da nossa equipe, dos nossos empreendedores, das crianças e famílias.

QUAIS LIÇÕES VOCÊ GUARDA COM VOCÊ?

Prestar atenção e estar a serviço do bem maior.

SEU MOMENTO ZEN?

Obtenho o máximo de satisfação ao ver meus colegas irem além dos próprios limites.

CITAÇÃO FAVORITA:

“As pessoas esquecerão o que você disse, as pessoas esquecerão o que você fez, mas as pessoas jamais esquecerão como você as fez sentir.” – Maya Angelou

O QUE VOCÊ QUERIA SER QUANDO CRESCESSE?

Bailarina.

QUAL É A COISA MAIS PRÓXIMA DA VERDADEIRA MAGIA NESTE MUNDO?

A alegria de uma criança.

QUEM VOCÊ GOSTARIA QUE NARRASSE SUA VIDA, SE PUDESSE ESCOLHER?

Aretha Franklin (cantando, é claro)

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This International Women’s Day, we are reminded of the importance of addressing the systemic challenges and barriers that women and girls face, and creating a more equal world for everyone.

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Imagine distinguishes itself by providing offline digital solutions for children in Africa without connectivity. Here are 3 ways Imagine successfully met the needs of learners during the pandemic.

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With two years behind us, we remain steadfast to the vision we imagined when we first launched our organization. Amy Klement shares the future we imagine for learners and their families.

Today's challenges call for creative investment strategies in philanthropy. Imaginable Futures is mentioned in this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review for our innovative approach.

Amy Klement interviews with Forbes to share how Imaginable Futures is diving deeper and collaborating with partners to address systematic inequities that perpetuate barriers for learners.

For philanthropy to drive sustainable change, we need to rethink traditional models that are too often top-down and risk perpetuating the same systems of oppression they seek to transform.

One year after we made a commitment to use our power to dismantle systemic racism, we share the peaks and valleys of our JEDI journey and how we’re holding ourselves accountable.

At Imaginable Futures, we won’t pretend that we know what all of those solutions might be. But, we are committed to working together to find out. And we know this starts with listening.

When our philanthropic investment firm launched last year, we could never have anticipated the year that was 2020. Here’s how our values guided us in 2020 and the learnings we’re taking into 2021.

Amy Klement and Erin Simmons share our Learning Reimagined: Radical Thinking for Equitable Futures report and invite you explore drivers of change, early signals of hope and future scenarios.

In Part 2, Amy Klement, shares the investments Imaginable Futures has made both within its current portfolio as well as new investments that will help those in need.

In this two-part series, Amy Klement shares how she is looking at the education landscape and how Imaginable Futures might best help learners around the world against the current crisis.

With the global COVID-19 pandemic impacting all our lives – and the lives of our families and communities around the world – we are thinking of you, what you may need and how we can best assist.

For International Women's Day, we honor our Imaginable Futures portfolio and the incredible women who have persevered to be part of the solutions for learners and their families.

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Across the US and around the world, education technology, or “edtech,” has been under attack.

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Amy Klement

Q+A

POR QUE VOCÊ ADORA VIR TRABALHAR?

QUAIS LIÇÕES VOCÊ GUARDA COM VOCÊ?

SEU MOMENTO ZEN?

CITAÇÃO FAVORITA:

O QUE VOCÊ QUERIA SER QUANDO CRESCESSE?

QUAL É A COISA MAIS PRÓXIMA DA VERDADEIRA MAGIA NESTE MUNDO?

QUEM VOCÊ GOSTARIA QUE NARRASSE SUA VIDA, SE PUDESSE ESCOLHER?

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