Elana Yonah is the co-founder of the George Lucas Educational Foundation and creator of EDUTOPIA.org, the most widely used online video magazine in K-12 education for 30+ years.
She then founded Just Think in Marin City in 1995 and with her team, grew it to a $50M company serving diverse and distressed young people. They developed critical thinking, creative expression skills, and tech mastery to tell their stories through films. Their works were shown 3 years in a row at the Sundance Film Festival, 3 times at International Children’s Summits in Paris for UNESCO bringing 600 kids from 50 countries each year, and at the International Peace Conference in Dubrovnik.
In addition to offering programs throughout the USA, Just Think set up physical offices in 17 countries.