The Potomac School

Kelly Greenwood '97
Mind Share Partners
San Francisco, CA

Kelly Greenwood ’97 is the founder and CEO of Mind Share Partners, a nonprofit that is changing the culture of workplace mental health so that both employees and organizations can thrive. It provides workplace training and strategic advising to leading companies, supports employee resource groups and professionals, and builds public awareness. Mind Share Partners runs two columns on workplace mental health in Forbes and Thrive Global. It has been featured in prestigious media, including The New York Times, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and others. 

Kelly is a nationally recognized advocate and speaker for mental health. She has written for Harvard Business Review, is a Forbes contributor, and has spoken at The Commonwealth Club, Culture Amp, Gap Inc., Pinterest, SAP, SHRM, and more. She has a cross-sector background that includes corporate, nonprofit and foundation roles.

Prior to Mind Share Partners, Kelly served as the chief growth and strategy officer of Techbridge Girls and was a principal on the portfolio team at the Skoll Foundation. She also worked as a management consultant at Accenture, A.T. Kearney, and the Bridgespan Group (the nonprofit spin-off of Bain & Company).

Kelly holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University with a B.A. in psychology and Spanish. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.

Kareem Farah '09
The Modern Classrooms Project Washington, DC

Kareem Farah ‘09 earned a B.A. in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. in Secondary Education from Johns Hopkins University. After joining Teach for America in 2013, he spent six years teaching in Hawaii and DC. Kareem was given the award for DC Public Schools Most Innovative Educator in 2018 for his new approach to teaching and learning. 

In an effort to scale his classroom model, Kareem launched a nonprofit, the Modern Classrooms Project. As the CEO of the Modern Classrooms Project, Kareem and his team train and support teachers who seek to redesign their classroom to better support the unique needs of their students, particularly in our most underserved communities. They currently have over 20,000 educators enrolled in their free course and over 40 school and district partners.