#13: Wendy Kopp ’89

Wendy Kopp

Jean-Christian Bourcart/courtesy Teach for America

Published Jan. 21, 2016

The only woman to crack our panel's top 25, Kopp conceived of Teach for America as her senior thesis; it is now one of the leading public-service projects in the country and has sent more than 14,000 recent college graduates to teach in poor schools throughout the United States.

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