Jonah Edelam - Ballmer Group

Jonah Edelman is co-founder and has served as Executive Officer of Stand for Children since its founding in 1996.

Stand for Children is a unique catalyst for educational equity and racial justice. Stand for Children’s eight state affiliates (AZ, CO, IL, IN, LA, OR, TN, and WA) help children at the bottom of the economic ladder to rise up, through effective dropout prevention strategies, expanded career technical education, and improved college preparation and post-secondary guidance, increasing access to quality early childhood education, improving literacy instruction and interventions, increasing funding equity and adequacy, and improving school quality in communities with a concentration of chronically low performing schools.