Community Partnerships
The richness of the living-learning environment will leverage the Chicagoland, San Diego-based, national and global resources surrounding our Academy to provide externships for our students and a pool of interns for our partnering cross-programming organizations.



Community Partners:
Old Town School of Folk Music
Merit School of Music
Kartemquin Films
The Newberry Library
Chicago Public Schools
Multiple farming partners (in discussion with Gotham Greens)
DePaul University – First Genesis Chapter on College Campus
University of Pennsylvania and Wharton Alumni Clubs of Chicago
Operation Hope – committed financial literacy curriculum pro-bono
San Diego Unified (public schools)
Global Community Partners:
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Rotary International (globally)
Salzburg Global Seminars – in progress
The Tel Aviv Conservatory of Music
AHD School for Science in the Bedouin community (Israel)
The International Crisis Group (in progress)
Smithsonian Institution Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NYC
The Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington, DC
The Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack, NY
Global Press Institute – in progress
Out of Poverty
Drama for Life, South Africa
Samosa Project (British/Pakistani film)
Isis Women’s International Cross Culture Exchange, Uganda