Driven 2 Educate

Connie Yowell is the CEO and Visionary of LRNG one of the key initiatives for Collective Shift, a non-profit organization in Chicago. Prior to her current role Connie was an Academic and Professor with the MacArthur Foundation for 15 years. She credits her experience and time there with the path that has led her to running Collective Shift and launching LRNG.  She believes that ideas and work are a steady act of mix, remix, and synthesis. Connie credits her work and thought process to those she has encountered and continues to encounter on a regular basis including, researchers, scholars, practitioners and youth. While at the MacArthur Foundation, she worked on a grant making portfolio with a budget of $250,000,000 in 2003. People were trying to understand the development and impact of digital media on the learning experiences for youth. From that deep research and experience, several fundamentals ideas came about in terms of how youth best learn. There must be a connection between youth and their learni