youthentrepreneurshiplady
Real Life Stories of Students, Teachers and Leaders Saying YES! to Entrepreneurship in America's Schools
JULIE SILARD KANTOR
National Vice President,
The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Office of Government Affairs (www.nfte.com)
Julie Silard Kantor is a 16 year veteran in the field of youth entrepreneurship education, an author, and has taught entrepreneurship to youth in low-income communities since 1992. Before becoming the National Vice President, Office of Government Affairs, Ms. Kantor served as Executive Director of the NFTE Greater Washington DC program office, where she was responsible for enhancing and expanding NFTE programs throughout the region and building ‘best practice’ templates for the organization both locally nationally and internationally. As National Vice President, Kantor is focused on the expansion of entrepreneurship education in America’s schools and opportunity to scale NFTE’s proven ‘Mini-MBA’ programs in partnership with federal and state government.
In collaboration with the Aspen Institute, Kantor is leading a dynamic policy initiative: the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (YES Group) www.aspeninstitute.org/yesg . The goal of YESG is to develop a concrete, viable strategy to advance the teaching of entrepreneurship in the nation’s schools, and to prompt public discussion and action for increased offerings of entrepreneurship education.
In her previous position as the Regional Director of NFTE New England, Ms. Kantor served the most economically challenged neighborhoods of Massachusetts. She established and personally taught NFTE classes at numerous public schools and youth programs. Over 19,000 local youth from have graduated from NFTE’s ‘mini-MBA’ Program model under Kantor’s leadership and over 220,000 youth to date globally.
Ms. Kantor received the NFTE Leadership Award in 2005 and 2007 for the top operating unit in the country, was NFTE Executive of the Year in 1999, Washingtonian Magazine’s 100 people to watch under 40 in its millennium edition. Kantor has been catalytic in expanding or launching NFTE programs in India, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston.
Born and raised in Washington, DC, Ms. Kantor started working in small business at the age of eleven and was heavily influenced by her father who escaped to America in 1956 for opportunity and to pursue college. She attended Sidwell Friends School and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and English from Simmons College in Boston. Ms. Kantor lives in Washington, DC with her husband, daughter and two dogs.
CONTACT INFORMATION: juliek@nfte.com WEBSITE: www.nfte.com PHONE: (202) 215-6383. Blog site: http://youthentrepreneurshiplady.wordpress.com/
January 21, 2009 at 6:59 am
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June 30, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Just found your blog…will make a link to my blog roll. I have taught entrepreneurship for 20 years, the last two with NFTE material, always in an inner city school. My students have gone to great success in their careers with a few operating their own business.
July 1, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Great to learn of you!! Thanks for connecting