Judges
Gabriel DeLeon
Employment Specialist, Easter Seals, XPERT Worker Advisory Board Member
Robert Doar
President, AEI
Matt Dunne
Founder & Executive Director, Center on Rural Innovation
Betsy Edasery
Managing Director, The Workers Lab
Isa Ellis
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ritse Erumi
Fellow, Ford Foundation
Josh Frazier-Sparks
Senior Manager, Walmart.org
Phil Gilbert
General Manager, Design, International Business Machines, IBM
Jason Green
Co-Founder, SVP & General Counsel, SkillSmart
Alanna Hughes
Vice President of Implementation Strategy, Per Scholas
Willard Hughes
BHI Energy Retired Decontamination Technician, XPERT Worker Advisory Board Member
Dr. Angela Jackson
Chief Ecosystem Investment Officer, Kapor Enterprises
Sonali Joshi
Chief Operating Officer, Cell-Ed
Freada Kapor Klein
Partner, Kapor Capital
Tyra Mariani
President, Schultz Family Foundation
Tonja Mettlach
Executive Director, Massachusetts Workforce Association
Dr. Chris Meyer
Director – Department of Education, Coeur d'Alene Tribe
Lisa Neuberger Fernandez
Managing Director, Accenture
Dr. Christine Ortiz
Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and Founder, Station1
Dr. Becky Takeda-Tinker
Chief Educational Innovation Officer, Colorado State University System
Andrew Tein
Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Wiley
Asha Varghese
President, Caterpillar Foundation
Judging Criteria
- Alignment: Solution addresses the challenge and centers on workers.
- Potential for Impact: Solution implementation has the potential to impact lives.
- Scalability: Solution can be scaled to affect the lives of more people.
- Feasibility: Solution implementation is feasible, and the team has a plan for financial sustainability.
- Innovative Approach: This is a new solution, a new application of a solution, a new business model, or a new process for solving the challenge, and the team clearly identifies its competitive advantages.
- Diversity: Solution and solution team embody and address diversity throughout their application.
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