Jennifer Corriero

- Guiding and supporting the growth of the program from 5 participating partner schools to 200 schools - Outreach and partnership development with team to expand our network of content providers to 400 organizations and individuals that are available to facilitate live, interactive virtual field trips - Program oversight, mentorship, team development and cohesion together with management and HR - Reporting to Education Authorities, Foundations, Government Authorities, Corporate Social Responsibility representatives to expand and mobilize resources for K-12 schools involved - Review of participant feedback from teachers, students and content providers through ratings and survey data related to Program Evaluation as aligned with our Theory of Change - Participation in various high level meetings, events, roundtables and networking with associations to increase program awareness

Responsible for cultivating leadership across the organization to meet organizational vision and objectives while fundraising and managing multimillion annual budget. Design and facilitation of Education for Social Innovation Professional Learning course. Responsibilities also include strategic planning, capacity building among team members, project, project management, partnership development, advisor and board relations. TakingITGlobal has been honored with various awards including the Tech Museum Award in the Education Category, the 2005 Canadian Awards for International Cooperation, the Global Youth Talent Award by the Government of Extremadura, Spain and the 2013 Intercultural Innovation Award (UNAOC & BMW Group). Our innovative approaches have also led to the 2020 Humanitarian Award by the Psychology Association of Canada. We have worked with youth as experts as well as industry experts across legal, accounting, technology and social innovation sectors to develop comprehensive application and grantee management systems and processes to build skills and capacity of youth participants as well as manage a high volume of payment processing. Our organization has been a primary delivery partner organization of the micro-grants as part of Canada Service Corps between 2017-2022. TakingITGlobal has provided over 7,000 youth with micro-grants to implement community-based projects with a total granting allocation of close to 7.8 million during the 5 years of operating. 98% of youth feel they have developed new leadership skills. This experience with CSC is built upon over 15 years of organizational experience in offering grants for youth-led projects globally, and across sectors, including with the Library of Alexandria (Egypt), Pearson Education, the Government of Ontario, Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, RBC, CIBC, Scotiabank, Intel, the Government of Nunavut, 8 family foundations and 5 federal government departments as funding partners in 2021.

The vision for York University's Faculty of Health is to educate future global leaders who will redefine and advance health and human science. As Adjunct Professor, involvement with the Faculty of Health has included high-level input as part of the Dean's Advisory Board as well as collaborative design for the Agents of Change in a Global World course and partnership development with the Department of Psychology research methods course.

The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a multistakeholder community of exceptional young leaders who share a commitment to shaping the global future. Each year, the World Economic Forum identifies 200-300 extraordinary individuals worldwide. Together, they form a powerful international community that can dramatically impact the global future.

"The company envisions a generation of people who are nearly always connected to the Internet, either through a PC at work or home, or via a wireless device everywhere else. So, in an exceedingly rare move for a major technology company, Microsoft has asked Furdyk and Corriero to tell its middle-aged executives how all this will come to pass...Their job is to explain to Microsoft executives the new generation's philosophy of work and play." By Michael J. Martinez, Associated Press, http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/043000/bus_2931431.html

This project aimed to promote Canadian women throughout history who have made significant social, cultural, political and economic contributions to Canada with a focus on reaching and inspiring young girls. The experience was also designed to offer a technology and design based learning opportunity to project team members.