Founder and CEO of @risingacademies. Trustee @GSF_talks. Education entrepreneur. Recovering political junkie and policy nerd.
Oct 16, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Last Saturday, we celebrated a big milestone @risingacademies: our first cohort of Rising students became our first Rising alumni👇. This is a special group, and I want to tell you the story of one of them. THREAD (1/x)
It’s a story that starts in tragedy. 10 years ago, I was at home in Freetown when Kadi, my housekeeper, knocked on the door. She looked in a terrible state. Her newborn baby, only a few weeks old, was very sick and she was taking him to the hospital. (2/x)
