Sage Salvo

Sage Salvo is the award-winning social-entrepreneur founder of Words Liive and inventor of The Opus App, a digital literacy tool that automates lesson plan design by facilitating the mass collaboration between music artists and classrooms. Sage is the 2022 Milken-Penn Education Business Grand Prize Winner and also a 2023 a16z Talent x Opportunity entrepreneur, receiving investment from Andreessen Horowitz. The Opus App was a 2022 Invention of the Year, Nominee by the Technical.ly Awards and Sage was awarded the 2022 Educator Innovator of the Year by Montgomery College’s BOND Academy.

He is a current graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) where he is pursuing a third Master’s Degree, this time in Literacy Studies. Sage is also a 2017 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School where he earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on Social Innovation. Mr. Salvo also holds an MBA from the University of Toronto.

Sage has designed, facilitated, and taught Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation programs for Howard University, Georgetown University, Montgomery College, and Prince George’s Community College. Sage has also authored opinion pieces in the Washington Post and EdSurge. He’s been featured in FORBES, Inc. Magazine, NPR, and The Washington Post among others. He is also the author of the forthcoming book, Inseparable But Unequaled: How Brown v. Board of Education set up an education culture war.