WHAT IS STRIVE?
Strive for College is an innovative college mentoring program that connects motivated, low-income high school students with undergraduate mentors, who guide them through the college application process and into enrollment at four-year universities and colleges, providing them with opportunities and resources to break the cycle of poverty forever.
FEATURED FACT
Every year, more than 200,000 low-income students graduate from high school in America ready to go to college – but do not.
Source Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Empty Promises: The Myth of College Access in America, Washington, D.C., 2002

Board of Advisors

A wide range of experienced and highly successful professionals support the Collaborative and serve on our Board of Advisors:

Business/Non-profit Management

Tim Brady
Former Chief Product Officer, Yahoo!
CEO, QuestBridge
W. Hodding Carter III
Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
Former President & CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Carter Administration
Print and Television Journalist; Four-time Emmy Award-winner
John Embree
Director of Student Recruiting, QuestBridge
Lisa Orden Zarin
Founder and Executive Director, College Bound St. Louis
Elizabeth Ketcher
Executive Director, StudioSTL

Human Resources

Michael C. Chapin
Career Services Specialist, Washington University in St. Louis

Technology

Ron Cytron
Professor of Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis

College Guidance

Debbie Greenberg
Director of College Counseling, College Bound St. Louis
College Counselor, Whitfield School, St. Louis
Ivan Hauck
College Counselor, St. John’s School, Houston, TX
Paige Johnson
College Counselor, Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA
Linda Wheeler
College Counselor, Annandale High School, Annandale, VA
Karen Zalta
President, The Zalta Group, a college counseling firm

General

Rhonda E. Farber
Superintendent, Campbell Union High School District
Jina Hyun
Program Associate, QuestBridge
Jacob Stiglitz
Program Associate, QuestBridge
Steven Syverud
Program Associate, QuestBridge

Finance

David Kiefer
Founder and Partner, Kiefer & Bonfanti & Co. LLP
Certified Public Accountants & Business Advisors

College Admissions

Demisha W. Lee
Associate Dean of Admission, Amherst College

Business/College Admissions Technology and Recruitment

Adam Park
President, Embark.com
Former Vice President, Princeton Review
Young Shin
CEO and President, Higher Edge Marketing Services
Former Executive Vice President and General Manager, The Princeton Review

Student Affairs (University Administration)

Eloise Stiglitz
Associate Vice President of Student Services, San Jose State University
Julia Macias Garcia
Director, Rodriguez Scholars Program, Washington University in St. Louis
II Lusci
Student Services Coordinator, Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship
Washington University in St. Louis