Greg Sommers

Care taker, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Parent, Social entrepreneur

Career focused on improving education for underserved youth. High School and Middle School Special Education teacher. Director at Comprehensive School Reform nonprofit. Variety of roles over 11+ years at Gates Foundation. Excited to have joined Bezos Family Foundation last Fall.

Educating future generations of problem solvers and innovators, my wife and three active boys, anything baseball (except the Yankees)

I'm still inspired by MIT President L. Rafael Reif's words earlier this week: The discovery we celebrate today embodies the paradox of fundamental science: that it is painstaking, rigorous and slow – and electrifying, revolutionary and catalytic. Without basic science, our best guess never gets any better, and "innovation" is tinkering around the edges. With the advance of basic science, society advances, too.

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