Our mission is to immediately improve the teacher-student connection during COVID.
The NY Times reported that “28% of educators said the coronavirus had made them more likely to leave teaching or retire early.”
We’re not willing to write off public education until everyone is vaccinated.
Matt’s neighbor Carlos inspired us when he bought a monitor for his mom who is a teacher.
The majority of screens are funded through the generosity of our large donors. Become a donor.
Ron Conway - Biz Stone - Glenn Kelman - Patty Stonesifer - Shel Kaphan - David Beitel
Tim O’Reilly - Ev Williams - Rich and Sarah Barton - Jodi Green - Sandor Strauss - Pathable - Scott Peyree - Rob Peyree - John Anderson - Steve Kemler - Adam Wiener
Our co-founders have a track record of building successful tech-for-social-good startups, and our team has a proven ability to execute on this mission at scale, including logistics, customer support, and web operations.
Matt Lerner, Founder
Prior to Two Screens for Teachers, Matt was the SVP of Product and Design at Redfin. Before Redfin, Matt was the co-founder and CTO of Walk Score, (acquired by Redfin). Prior to that he managed the core Microsoft Windows user interface. Matt’s first startup EQuill was acquired by Microsoft.
Matt volunteers as a Big Brother and as a mentor for the Ada Developers Academy. He studied Computer Science at Brown University. Email Matt or find him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Mike Mathieu, Co-Founder
Mike Mathieu is an entrepreneur focused on the power of technology to advance the common good. Mike was founder and CEO of All Star Directories, an INC 500-listed online marketing company serving the higher education market; former Board President of the Technology Access Foundation, a digital-divide pioneer addressing racial equity in STEM education in public schools; co-founder and former Chair of Walk Score. He is based in Seattle and operates Front Seat, the first tech-for-social-good incubator. Earlier he spent a decade at Microsoft where he was General Manager of MSN.com and MSN Search. See Mike on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Bo Borgerson, Software Engineer
Bo is a principal software engineer at Joon Care, a teletherapy service for teens and young adults.
Prior to that, Bo was a technical lead at Redfin and a senior software engineer at Walk Score.
Bo graduated from Kalamazoo College with degrees in Computer Science and Japanese.
See Bo's personal site.
Neemah Cobell, Customer Support
Neemah is a first generation senior student at Pitzer College in California. She was most recently the head coordinator for the Indigenous Peoples Center at Pomona and Pitzer College, where she worked with nearby teachers and their indigenous high school students on college applications. In 2020, she co-created the Instagram account @Foodfolkz, a page discussing food injustice in America with a resource list of free mutual aid organizations in the U.S. She is currently majoring in Political Studies with an emphasis on American Politics.
Peter Lindburg, Partnerships
Peter has more than two decades of sales and business development experience in high-tech, starting with Silicon Graphics in the mid-1990s. Most recently, Peter was the Director of Business Development at Amplero, an AI/ML based marketing automation company in Seattle. Prior to Amplero, Peter ran a consulting company to help companies increase their sales competitiveness. Earlier, Peter was the Director of Business Development and Director of Sales at All Star Directories. Peter graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Operations Research Engineering. Email Peter or see him on LinkedIn.
Nritya Kamath, Operations Manager
Nritya was most recently the Direct of Supply Chain and Operations at PicoBrew, the world's first automatic all-grain homebrewing appliance. Nritya defined the roadmap for product and operations with a budget of $5M. She was responsible for purchasing, production, and fulfillment for the PicoBrew line of devices. She is the co-founder of SaND for Soapaholics, a natural skincare brand to reinvent Ayurvedic cosmetics for the Indian market. Prior to that, Nritya was a financial analyst at Ernst and Young. Nritya has a degree from Rice University in Mathematical Economic Analysis with a minor in Business. See Nritya on LinkedIn.
Kenshi Kawaguchi, Software Engineer
Kenshi is a software engineer at Amazon. Prior to Amazon, Kenshi was a senior software engineer at ChefSteps, the maker of Joule, a smart Sous Vide device. Kenshi was a senior software engineer at Walk Score and has a degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo. See Kenshi’s personal site.
Jesse Kocher, Software Engineer
Jesse is a senior software engineer at Redfin. Prior to Redfin, Jesse was the co-founder of Walk Score, the leading measure of neighborhood walkability. Before that, Jesse was the Director of Web Strategy at the New Progressive Coalition and the webmaster and co-founder of Driving Votes. Jesse was also the co-founder of EQuill, a software startup that let non-technical people mark-up and edit web pages, which was sold to Microsoft. Jesse has degrees in Computer Science and Visual Art from Brown University. See Jesse on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Steve Lerner, Community Partnerships
Steve is a clinical psychologist in Lawrence, Kansas. He first worked as a school psychologist many years ago, and developed a huge respect for teachers. Steve partnered with community foundations in his home state of Kansas to deliver monitors to teachers in Topeka and Garden City. Now Steve is working on community foundation partnerships across the country. He also happens to be our founder Matt’s dad.
Jenny Lloyd, Customer Support Manager
Jenny worked as a public health professional for 15 years, primarily conducting communicable disease surveillance and outbreak investigation. She collected, managed, and analyzed data, and produced reports for the public and healthcare communities. Outside of work, Jenny has helped enrich educational experiences for Seattle area youth through volunteer roles with Sierra Club’s Inner City Outings and Seattle Works. Prior to COVID, she was pursuing training as a Roots of Empathy Instructor. Jenny holds a BS in Biology and Spanish from the University of Michigan, and an MS in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. She loves spending time wrangling her 10-year old twins, playing the ukulele, and painting. See Jenny on LinkedIn.
Erin Mathieu, Social Media
Erin is a Senior Political Studies major at Pitzer College in Southern California.
In addition to managing social media, Erin has worked as a bike mechanic as well as a teaching assistant in R Coding for Politics at Pomona College.
Outside of work, Erin is involved with organizing around prison abolition and justice for Palestine. Erin also enjoys reading, Studio Ghibli movies, and playing Ultimate Frisbee.See Erin on LinkedIn.
Dave Peck, Lead Engineer
Dave Peck is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He most recently bootstrapped, grew to profitability, and successfully sold the network security SaaS startup, Cloak. Prior to Cloak, Dave founded one of Seattle’s earliest consultancies focused at the intersection of mobile and cloud development.
He earned dual ScB in Math and Computer Science from Brown University. See Dave on Twitter.
