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Alejandro Gac-Artigas

Founder & CEO

Greater Philadelphia '09

Alejandro Gac Artigas

“The entrepreneur’s only chance at succeeding, where hundreds before you have failed, is to understand the problem more deeply than anyone else. And no one understands a problem better than the people who experience it firsthand.”

Alejandro Gac-Artigas
Co-Founder and CEO
Springboard Collaborative

Alejandro founded Springboard Collaborative in 2011, a nonprofit with a mission to close the literacy gap among students from low-income backgrounds. The organization partners with schools and families to help pre-K through third-grade students make significant gains in their reading abilities through resources, coaching, and year-round programs to support students' learning outside school hours. Read more about Alejandro on One Day.