Planting the Seeds for Fellows
IAC has long been dedicated to improving the educational and economic opportunities of young people in our local communities.
We’ve made founding grants to organizations like Code.org and Computer Science for All that made high-quality computer science education accessible to NYC’s students. We created a scholarship program at Avenues for Justice to provide second chances to adjudicated youth in New York City.
Our work with artistic programs such as the Public Theatre and Carnegie Hall encourages students’ life-long love of the arts. For a decade, IAC was the lead sponsor for after-school art workshops at Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers (a local Bilingual/English as Second Language (ESL) public school that specializes in meeting the unique needs of newly-arrived, non-English speaking immigrant students).
Our investment in career and college development programs such as LEDA, Prep for Prep, TEAK, and SEO help address access, inclusivity and success in higher education and early career for students from underrepresented communities.
The concept of the IAC Fellows Program evolved from years of collaboration with these charitable partners and many more at the forefront of education reform and economic development. We thread together these efforts and built upon them to create a model that would truly impact lives, one student at a time.
The IAC Fellows Program aims to engage aspiring leaders in technology early and often – employing a multi-pronged approach to break down barriers to opportunity in the workplace – so that any student regardless of socioeconomic background can see themselves as a leader at a company like IAC and can make that future a reality.