Talia Milgrom-Elcott

Talia is widely recognized for her visionary and innovative approach to addressing large systemic challenges. At 100Kin10, you’re creating a new model of networked, agile, and iterative collaboration that relentlessly focuses on identifying and solving some of our most intractable societal challenges. Under his leadership, what began as a call in President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address for 100,000 excellent STEM teachers in 10 years is becoming a reality, with more than 250 leading organizations from all sectors joining together in an unprecedented movement to train and retain 100,000 excellent STEM teachers by 2021.

With 100Kin10, Talia is building a new kind of collective impact effort that breaks the mold of how organizations collaborate, learn from each other, and together face challenges that no one could successfully address alone. Talia is a frequent speaker and moderator, focusing on social innovation, science and technology, education, philanthropy, and the tenuous balancing act that is running a startup, being a mother, and trying to have a life.

In recent years, she has led sessions or been a featured speaker at the White House, Philanthropy Roundtable, CA Technologies, Scientific American, U.S. News STEM Solutions, the National Institutes of Health, CECP, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Yale School of Management, and the Social Impact Exchange Conference on Scaling Impact, among others. Widely known for her thought leadership, she has been published or described in the “Leadership in Action” series of The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Smithsonian, CNN Money, U.S. News and World Report, GOOD, and Sirius. Her work was called “the most important effort” in preparing STEM teachers by The New York Times in 2013; was celebrated on stage by President Clinton as his favorite commitment to leave CGI America and was applauded by President Obama in a custom video for the 100Kin10 network in 2014; and, in 2015, the White House called her a “leading STEM communicator.”