Ted Dintersmith

Ted Dintersmith focuses on the urgent need to equip humans with competencies to lead purposeful lives in an age of rapidly advancing machine intelligence. His Sundance-acclaimed documentary Most Likely to Succeed has been screened by 10,000+ communities across 35 countries. His top-selling What School Could Be draws on a year when he visited 200 schools across all 50 states. His new film Multiple Choice brings audiences to a public school district that immerses all high-schoolers in career-based learning. His forthcoming book Aftermath showcases powerful math ideas that make or break our lives—ideas schools gloss over while burying us in obsolete math adults don't use and smartphones perform flawlessly. Ted holds a PhD in Engineering from Stanford and was the top-ranked U.S. venture capitalist for 1995–1999. In 2012, President Obama appointed him to represent the U.S. at the United Nations. In 2018, he received the NEA Friend of Education Award—prior recipients include Thurgood Marshall and LBJ.