Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
Alexis Jeffries is a technology product strategist, adjunct professor, startup advisor and active angel investor, based in Los Angeles. She is the Director, Head of Business Product Marketing at Glassdoor, leading the company’s efforts on employer branding and employee experience. Prior to Glassdoor, she was a Business Product Marketing Lead in the Ads division at Meta, where she led Meta’s Racial Justice and Ads Product Equity initiatives, as well as the company’s Rotational Product Marketing Manager program. Prior to Meta, she was a strategy consultant at Accenture and an advertising executive at OMD and Wunderman Thompson in New York. She started her career as a personal finance journalist at Money Magazine, and has written for Money, The New York Times, Essence, Black Enterprise, The New York Post, The Village Voice, CNNMoney.com and many more.
Ms. Jeffries holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Political Science from Northwestern University, a master’s degree in Global Communications from the American University of Paris, (of which she chairs the Diversity Committee for the President’s Advisory Council) and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
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Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
Founded in New York City in 1987 by Steve Mariotti, a former entrepreneur turned high school math teacher in the South Bronx, NFTE began as a program to prevent dropouts and improve academic performance among students who were at risk of failing or quitting school.Combining his business background with his desire to teach at-risk students,Steve discovered that when young people from low-income communities are given the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, their innate "street smarts" can easily develop into "academic smarts" and "business smarts." Through entrepreneurship, young people discover that what they are learning in the classroom is relevant to the real world. By teaching the entrepreneurial mindset, NFTE provides young people with tools and attitudes to overcome adversity and address future personal, economic, community and global challenges.The NFTE has worked with more than 500,000 young people from low-income communities in programs across the U.S. and around the world. As of fall, 2014 NFTE operates their successful curriculum in 19 U.S. communities and 12 countries and continues to expand - sharing and spreading the transformative power of entrepreneurship.