Our mission is to immediately improve the teacher-student connection during COVID.

The NY Times reported that “28% of educators said the coronavirus had made them more likely to leave teaching or retire early.”

We’re not willing to write off public education until everyone is vaccinated.

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Ron Conway - Biz Stone - Glenn Kelman - Patty Stonesifer - Shel Kaphan - David Beitel

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Tim O’Reilly - Ev Williams - Rich and Sarah Barton - Jodi Green - Sandor Strauss - Pathable - Scott Peyree - Rob Peyree - John Anderson - Steve Kemler - Adam Wiener

Matt Lerner, Founder

Prior to Two Screens for Teachers, Matt was the SVP of Product and Design at Redfin. Before Redfin, Matt was the co-founder and CTO of Walk Score, (acquired by Redfin). Prior to that he managed the core Microsoft Windows user interface. Matt’s first startup EQuill was acquired by Microsoft.

Matt volunteers as a Big Brother and as a mentor for the Ada Developers Academy. He studied Computer Science at Brown University. Email Matt or find him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

 Mike Mathieu, Co-Founder

Mike Mathieu is an entrepreneur focused on the power of technology to advance the common good. Mike was founder and CEO of All Star Directories, an INC 500-listed online marketing company serving the higher education market; former Board President of the Technology Access Foundation, a digital-divide pioneer addressing racial equity in STEM education in public schools; co-founder and former Chair of Walk Score. He is based in Seattle and operates Front Seat, the first tech-for-social-good incubator. Earlier he spent a decade at Microsoft where he was General Manager of MSN.com and MSN Search. See Mike on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Bo Borgerson, Software Engineer

Bo is a principal software engineer at Joon Care, a teletherapy service for teens and young adults.

Prior to that, Bo was a technical lead at Redfin and a senior software engineer at Walk Score.

Bo graduated from Kalamazoo College with degrees in Computer Science and Japanese.

See Bo's personal site.

Neemah Cobell, Customer Support

Neemah is a first generation senior student at Pitzer College in California. She was most recently the head coordinator for the Indigenous Peoples Center at Pomona and Pitzer College, where she worked with nearby teachers and their indigenous high school students on college applications. In 2020, she co-created the Instagram account @Foodfolkz, a page discussing food injustice in America with a resource list of free mutual aid organizations in the U.S. She is currently majoring in Political Studies with an emphasis on American Politics.

Peter Lindburg, Partnerships

Peter has more than two decades of sales and business development experience in high-tech, starting with Silicon Graphics in the mid-1990s. Most recently, Peter was the Director of Business Development at Amplero, an AI/ML based marketing automation company in Seattle. Prior to Amplero, Peter ran a consulting company to help companies increase their sales competitiveness. Earlier, Peter was the Director of Business Development and Director of Sales at All Star Directories. Peter graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Operations Research Engineering. Email Peter or see him on LinkedIn.

Nritya Kamath, Operations Manager

Nritya was most recently the Direct of Supply Chain and Operations at PicoBrew, the world's first automatic all-grain homebrewing appliance. Nritya defined the roadmap for product and operations with a budget of $5M. She was responsible for purchasing, production, and fulfillment for the PicoBrew line of devices. She is the co-founder of SaND for Soapaholics, a natural skincare brand to reinvent Ayurvedic cosmetics for the Indian market. Prior to that, Nritya was a financial analyst at Ernst and Young. Nritya has a degree from Rice University in Mathematical Economic Analysis with a minor in Business. See Nritya on LinkedIn.

Jesse Kocher, Software Engineer

Jesse is a senior software engineer at Redfin. Prior to Redfin, Jesse was the co-founder of Walk Score, the leading measure of neighborhood walkability. Before that, Jesse was the Director of Web Strategy at the New Progressive Coalition and the webmaster and co-founder of Driving Votes. Jesse was also the co-founder of EQuill, a software startup that let non-technical people mark-up and edit web pages, which was sold to Microsoft. Jesse has degrees in Computer Science and Visual Art from Brown University. See Jesse on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Steve Lerner, Community Partnerships

Steve is a clinical psychologist in Lawrence, Kansas. He first worked as a school psychologist many years ago, and developed a huge respect for teachers. Steve partnered with community foundations in his home state of Kansas to deliver monitors to teachers in Topeka and Garden City. Now Steve is working on community foundation partnerships across the country. He also happens to be our founder Matt’s dad.

Erin Mathieu, Social Media

Erin is a Senior Political Studies major at Pitzer College in Southern California.

In addition to managing social media, Erin has worked as a bike mechanic as well as a teaching assistant in R Coding for Politics at Pomona College.

Outside of work, Erin is involved with organizing around prison abolition and justice for Palestine. Erin also enjoys reading, Studio Ghibli movies, and playing Ultimate Frisbee.See Erin on LinkedIn.

Dave Peck, Lead Engineer

Dave Peck is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He most recently bootstrapped, grew to profitability, and successfully sold the network security SaaS startup, Cloak. Prior to Cloak, Dave founded one of Seattle’s earliest consultancies focused at the intersection of mobile and cloud development.

He earned dual ScB in Math and Computer Science from Brown University. See Dave on Twitter.