HGSE Selects 2025 Education Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows

The Harvard Graduate School of Education has named its 2025 recipients of the Education Entrepreneurship Summer Fellowship. The program, first launched in 2013, provides funding to allow students and alumni to work full-time on their entrepreneurial ventures during the summer months.

This year’s fellows are recent HGSE alumni with graduation dates between December 2024 and May 2025. Winning fellows submitted a reflection about their entrepreneurial efforts and how a fellowship grant would benefit their venture moving forward.

Project applications were reviewed and judged by a committee of HGSE faculty and administrators based on demonstrated leadership and effectiveness, interest in education entrepreneurship, viability of the entrepreneurial venture, and potential impact of the venture.

The five alumni receiving fellowship awards of $10,000 for their projects are:

• Hannah Block, Ed.M.'25, for Inner[Animal], a digital intervention designed to help cultivate hope, self-awareness, and emotional resilience in youth. Through an engaging, interactive experience based in cognitive science, narrative therapy, and behavioral psychology, the Inner[Animal] app uses evidence-based frameworks to guide users through structured reflections and cognitive reframing to help process difficult emotions and maintain a sense of agency and hope.
• Keertheesh Manjeshwar, Ed.M.'25, for Teach Hive, a tech-driven platform designed to bridge the teacher recruitment gap in India by connecting low- and middle-income teachers with better job opportunities while addressing talent mismatch issues in schools. Using continuous professional development through upskilling modules, Teach Hive helps ensure teachers are equipped with good pedagogical practices to further enhance their careers and the education of their students.
• Heejin (Irene) Koo, Ed.M.'25, for Build Labs, an artificial intelligence-enhanced learning platform designed to empower young professionals who want to upskill with AI tools but don’t know where to start. By identifying use cases and pain points, Build Labs helps individual learners solve real-world problems on its platform using active learning research and studies from the Harvard Project on Workforce.
• Xinyi Liu, Ed.M.'25, for ElevateAI, a career readiness and personalized learning platform that uses AI to create an individualized roadmap to success. By understanding each user’s career goals, skills, and time availability, ElevateAI helps build a customized plan that breaks down long-term aspirations into manageable, actionable steps to help ensure steady progress and clarity for its users.
• Ruby Wang, Ed.M.'25, for Magnificent7Education (M7E), an AI-powered linguistic equity platform that evaluates and refines math word problems to ensure clarity, accessibility, and inclusivity for multilingual learners. Its Linguistic Equity Model (LEM) uses generative AI to dynamically rewrite and assess math problems, helping curriculum developers, educators, and students engage more effectively with math.