Social Justice Fellowship Alumni
Sam Kuttner
New York, NY, USA
Head of Learning and Development, BrainPOP
Fellowship Year: 2015-2016
Placement: The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants
Interests:
Sam Kuttner loves to spend his time traveling (when possible), cooking (or attempting to), and convincing everyone he knows to get excited about the Eurovision Song Contest. Sam spends his days at the Head of Learning and Development for BrainPOP, an Education-Technology company, where he applies organizational psychology to build out learning systems and people development cycles to create a culture focused on empathy, growth and outcomes for kids. Sam started his career as a High School Economics teacher, and has been a community organizer and teacher coach, and spent the last 11 years working in training and coaching in the nonprofit and social justice world.
In My Own Words: My year at the Hotline for Refugee and Migrants accelerated my understanding, skills, and commitment to advocating for a just, inclusive, and and thriving democratic state in Israel. It fueled both my passion for, and ability to work along-side, impacted communities.