Dan Gonzalez
Co-Founder & CEO
District C
Dan Gonzalez studied engineering at Dartmouth College before becoming a high school physics teacher. After teaching, Dan joined Manhattan Prep, a global leader in test preparation. He became president of the company in 2011 shortly after it was acquired by Kaplan. Dan is now the CEO & Co-Founder of District C, a national nonprofit that prepares the next generation of diverse talent for modern work. District C's flagship program, called Teamship, is a reimagined internship where teams of students solve real problems for real businesses. Since 2017, over 7,000 Teamship students have worked on real problems for 600 businesses, including main street cafes, tech startups, and corporations such as IBM, Deloitte, and Epic Games.