Heejae Lim

Heejae is Founder and CEO of TalkingPoints, an education technology nonprofit with a mission to unlock the potential of families to fuel their children's learning, especially in under-resourced communities. TalkingPoints' multilingual platform connects and empowers families and educators using human- and AI-powered, two-way translated communication, coaching, and personalized content. Previously, Heejae worked on education reform for public schools in the Middle East. She also served as chief of staff to a special advisor to the Secretary of Education in the UK. As a consultant at McKinsey, she advised the Gates Foundation and Teach First UK. Heejae is a graduate of Oxford, London School of Economics and has an MBA from Stanford Business School where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and has been recognized as a TED Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, Stanford Social Innovation Fellow, Ashoka Changemaker and Forbes 30 under 30 for Education.