Leah is a social entrepreneur and educator, with deep expertise in creating interactive experiences that engage learners of all ages. Her passion for helping youth with career readiness is highly contagious.

Juliette is an opportunity spotter and problem solver. She manages Hats & Ladders, Inc.’s long-term vision and provides direction regarding priorities and opportunities.

Scott, an expert in evidence-based game design and development, is a results-driven jack-of-all trades and ace communicator. He leads partnership development efforts at Hats & Ladders, Inc.

Ivonne is the talent behind Hats & Ladders’ vivid and impactful visual design. She also creates avatars, badges, scenery, and all the other amazing visual assets that bring our programs to life.

Ben manages all content development for Hats & Ladders, Inc. A former lawyer, he is an information mastermind and Hats & Ladders, Inc.’s in-house occupational data wizard.

Heather’s life mission is to improve lives, particularly for those for whom opportunities and justice are not a given. She directs business development and strategy for Hats & Ladders, Inc.  

David is an award-winning game developer recognized around the world for conceiving and developing fun, smart learning products. He currently serves as VP of Product Development.

Michelle is our Hats & Ladders master educator whose creativity and genius has been instrumental in inspiring our engaging, youth-centric activities and implementation models.

Jordan Ephron, our in-house swiss army knife, single-handedly programmed the first Hats & Ladders prototype and has been instrumental to our program’s development ever since.

Stefan Winz is a net-centric technologist with extensive experience in the systems and architecture surrounding enterprise class Websites and all aspects of technology related system deployment.

Jarret Rackoff maintains an impressive reputation as a technical strategist, executive level project manager and implementation leader throughout the education technology community.

Bob Hartlaub is a hands on, down to earth technology leader who has amassed a wealth of experience across the architecture and development of  education technology and commerce based systems.

Ahmad is a freshman at the Macaulay Honors College who is infatuated with programming and design. He is currently developing automated data reports to aid in understanding the behaviors of H&L users.

Tamika’s been called the “doula of cinema and pedagogy”. With the mind of a Ranger, heart of a teacher and soul of a dancer, she partners with schools in her hometown through SYEP.

Jeff is CEO & Co-Founder of Akili Network Inc., distributing the world’s best educational entertainment to the 18 million children of Kenya on digital television, mobile, tablets, and computers.

As an experienced educator and 2016 National School Counselor of the Year Finalist, Kim contributes valuable insights about students’ needs, interests, and overall mindset.

Matt, a valuable advisor since Hats & Ladders’ inception, specializes in translating what we know about the psychology of human behavior into creating products that change those behaviors.

Hats & Ladders is lucky to have Dr. Kurland as an advisor. He is a highly influential Edtech leader with over 35 years’ experience in publishing, product development and educational research.