Our students are not just learning from experts, they are learning how to be experts and leaders themselves.
Community Engaged Learning Partners
The New School Community Engaged Learning Model involves leading professionals from the entrepreneurship, business, scientific, civic, nonprofit, and arts communities around Atlanta. Many of our mentors work with students on several-month long projects, bringing domain expertise and real-world purpose to the project work our students do.
Interested in becoming a partner? Please email Peter Lefkowicz, our Head of School.
Here are just some of the amazing people our students have worked with over the last two years:
Entrepreneurs / Founders
- Matt Arnett – Arts Speaker Series Partner (Founder, Grocery on Home)
- Kathryn Petralia (Kabbage)
- Andy Pruett (Second Story)
- Steve Carse (King of Pops)
- Stephen Beehler (Cobbler Union)
- Erika Norwood (IDEX)
- Darrah Brustein (Forbes)
- Jason Long (BrainLeaf, CodeWright, JHouse Media)
- Jeff Levy (OfficeHours)
- Sharif Hassan (The Spindle)
- David Kobia (BRCK)
- Richard Simms (Tech Talent South)
- Jeremy Wiley (Teathered Air)
- Kobi Margolin (Clinigence)
- Chuck Kandzierski (Clinigence)
- Andrew Foote (Sanivation)
- Jim Beach (School of Entrepreneurship Radio)
- Rostam Zafari (Mystro) – Entrepreneur In Residence
- Amanda Norris (The Atlanta Bakery)
- Gabriella Mooney (Mass Collective – Maker Space)
- Debra Lam (Partnership for Inclusive Innovation; GA Tech)
- Mehul Bhagat (Mystro) – Entrepreneur In Residence
- Aaron Butler (Black Hack Society – Computer Consulting)
- Omar Ali (Ali Event Center)
Investors
Civic / Government Leaders
- Jim Durrett (MARTA Board Member)
- Kate Atwood (Choose ATL)
- Dominque Madison (Georgia Justice Project)
- Jason Winston (Atlanta City Council)
- Liliana Bahktiari (Atlanta City Council)
- Krystal Harris (Aerotropolis Atlanta)
- Rohit Malhotra (Center for Civic Innovation)
- Matt Westmoreland (Atlanta City Council)
Design Professionals / Entrepreneurs
- Eric Goldstein
- Aly Merritt (Atlanta Tech Village)
- TJ Bennett (Sole Play ATL – Sneaker Designer)
- Jamie Allen (The Squirrel Census)
- Nat Slaughter (MapBox)
- Danielle Ratliff (Second Story)
- Olivia Pan (Mailchimp)
- Ashley Wilson (Mailchimp)
- Emily Austin (Mailchimp)
- Laurissa Wolfram (Mailchimp)
- Neel Shivdasani (Mailchimp)
Musicians
Arts & Literary Professionals / Entrepreneurs
- Bill Arnett (Art Collector)
- Chuck Reese (Founder, Bitter Southerner)
- Kevin Gillese (Director, Dad’s Garage)
- Suzan Mozes (Writer)
- Benito Ferro (Artist – Muralist)
- Trish Whitlock (Editor, Hypepotamus)
- Gabbie Watts (NPR)
- Robbie Brown (New York Times)
- Roberto Arevalo (Filmmaker)
- Leslie Yarborough (MODA – Museum of Design Atlanta)
- Dorian Albert (Bravo Ocean Studios)
- Charity Hofert (Independent Artist, Ceramicist)
- Artemus Jenkins (Independent Artist)
- Jake and Nina Elsas (Patch Works Art and History Center)
- Matt Arnett (Music Producer/Arts advocate)
- Caroline King (Cinema Life)
- Ethan Darla (Resonant Studios)
- Casey Fishman (The Breman Museum)
- Jeff Adler (Horizon Theatre)
- Atlanta Chinese Dance Company
- Daphne Dail (Mudfire Studio – Pottery)
- Brooks Buffington (Switchyards Co-Working Space)
Non Profit Leaders
- Princess Modupe Ozolua of Benin Empire (Empower 54)
- Kate Atwood (Kate’s Club, Arby’s Foundation)
- Hillary King (Community Farmers Markets)
- Susanna Spiccia (Re:Imagine ATL)
- Scott Lange (Atlanta Wildlife Rescue)
- Amy Feigl (InterAtlanta FC)
- Stephanie Chewning (100 Miles – Georgia Coastal Environmental Protection)
- Megan Desrosiers (100 Miles – Georgia Coastal Environmental Protection)
- Donna Stephens (Chattahoochee Brick Company Descendants)
- Bill Sapp (Southern Environmental Law Center)
- Abra Lee (Oakland Cemetery)
- Nicole Lance (Habitat for Humanity)
- Tanjuria Willis (Atlanta Sustainable Fashion Week)
- Matty Garrett (The Wylde Center)
- Emily Brabeck (The Wylde Center)
- Brian Foster (Georgia Conservancy)
- Stephane Sance (The Shepherd Center)
- Shelby Danser (Skyland Trail)
- Jasmine Moore (Volunteer Food Pantry PAD)
- Nancy Morales (Cabbagetown Art Center)
- Jeremy Amico (Truly Living Well)
- Kathleen Loesel (Urban Recipe)
- Melissa Arthur (Partnership Against Domestic Violence)
- Sandee Chamberlain (International Animation Society)
- Max Kollman (Atlanta Village Skatepark)
- Ayinde Summers (Project South)
- Avery Wilis (Southern Fried Queer Pride)
- Angie Wheelis (Southern Fried Queer Pride)
- Kim Bednarik (Okefenokee Swamp Park)