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Tyler Hester, Educators Thriving

Dr. Tyler Hester is the co-founder and CEO of Educators Thriving. His passion for education was sparked as an undergraduate at Stanford University when he stumbled across a tutoring program that matched undergraduate students with janitors on campus. Tyler went on to work at the U.S. Department of Education and, during the 2008 presidential campaign, on then-Senator Obama’s education policy committee. After college, Tyler went on to earn an M.Phil at Cambridge University, where he studied Educational Research as a Gates Scholar. Convinced that educational inequity is the civil rights issue of our generation and inspired to make change for young people in California, he became a teacher in 2008. After four years in the classroom, Tyler became the leader of a teacher training program in Richmond, California. In 2020, he completed a Doctorate in Education Leadership at Harvard University. After graduate school, Tyler returned to the classroom as a full-time high-school teacher in Stockton, California. Today, in addition to leading Educators Thriving, he is the Vice Principal of a school in Richmond. He’s grateful to have the chance to do the most important work there is.