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Fahad Hassan Fahad Hassan is the Chief Business Development Officer at ALMA, a Portland, OR based K-12's Holistic Student Engagement Platform, which provides better experience for administrators, teachers, parents, and students. Before ALMA, Fahad founded a tech company Always Prepped, which was acquired by ALMA in 2014. He has wide experience in education, entrepreneurship, and technology and has been awarded the Bloomberg 25 under 25 for innovation in entrepreneurship award, Forber 30 under 30 leaders in Education, and GAP Fund top 50 entrepreneurs. Fahad received his diploma from Virginia Tech in Business Administration and Theology. |
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Heidi Olinger Heidi Olinger is an educator and the author of Fashionably Mashed: The STEM of Fashion Design. For teaching excellence, she has been honored by the Boettcher Foundation and others. She is the founder and CEO of Pretty Brainy, a nonprofit organization that designs STEAM (science, technology, engineering art, and math) curricula and materials to support teachers in exciting students about learning and in preparing them, especially girls, to pursue the broadest of career options. Her work in apparel design has won the highest honor from the Mom’s Choice Awards® and was featured in an international showcase by the World Trade Center-Denver. In 2012 InnovatioNews named Pretty Brainy “An educational leader for STEM education.” |
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In addition to serving as the Teaching Assistant for the I-Corps L program, Lindsey also manages the logistics of coordinating and conducting the I-Corps programs for the DC regional node. She oversees the region's social media and outreach efforts and assists in the behind-the-scenes work in screening teams, organizing venues, training teaching assistants and planning several regional cohorts per year. Lindsey received her M.Ed in College Student Personnel Administration and has over a decade of experience in event and conference planning. |
2015 Washington D.C. Metro Area Teaching and Evaluation Team
Core Teaching Team
Karl Smith
Ann McKenna
Christopher Swan
Russell Korte
Adjunct Instructors
Fahad Hassan
Heidi Olinger
Node Instructors
Heath Naquin
Lydia McClure
Todd Morrill
I-Corps National Faculty Representative
Dean Chang
Teaching Assistant
Lindsey Mitchell
Evaluation Team
Gary Lichtenstein
Cathleen Simons
Sheri Sheppard