Amy Klement

Managing Partner, Board Member

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Meet Amy, managing partner and a board member of Imaginable Futures. She leads Imaginable Future’s team and strategy and is responsible to the board for running the organization.

Previous to spinning out into Imaginable Futures, Amy was a partner at Omidyar Network and led the Education initiative since 2013. Prior to this role, she was responsible for Omidyar Network’s work in Financial Inclusion, Property Rights and Consumer Internet & Mobile initiatives in key geographies. She has held board seats or observer roles with Teach For All, African Leadership International (ALI), Andela, NewGlobe (best known for Bridge community schools), Imagine Worldwide, Kiva, Living Goods, Social Finance US, Mimoni and Off Grid Electric.

Prior to Omidyar Network, Amy worked for eBay where she served as vice president of product strategy and operations driving the development of the company’s long-term product vision and leading user experience and design and as well as vice president of relationship marketing, leading email, on-site and other retention marketing channels. Amy formerly worked for PayPal, joining as one of its earliest employees in 1999. As vice president of product, she and her team developed the company's payments platform, facilitated overseas expansion into Europe and Asia, and was instrumental in the launch of PayPal Mobile. Earlier, Amy worked in corporate strategy and development at Gap Inc., and as an analyst at JPMorgan.

Q+A

Why do you love coming to work?

Unleashing human potential! Of our team, our of our entrepreneurs, of children and families.

What lessons do you keep with you today?

Pay attention to and be in service of the greater good.

Your Moment of Zen?

I get the most fulfillment from seeing my colleagues reach beyond their limits.

Favorite Quote:

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

What did you want to be when you grew up?

A ballerina.

What’s the closest thing to real magic in this world?

The joy of a child.

If someone narrated your life, who would you want it to be?

Aretha Franklin (in song, of course)

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Imagine distinguishes itself by providing offline digital solutions for children in Africa without connectivity. Here are 3 ways Imagine successfully met the needs of learners during the pandemic.

IF’s Amy Klement and our partners at the Gates Foundation, Kapor Center and Strada Education share investment approaches in philanthropy that drive impact and target inequities at SXSW Edu.

With two years behind us, we remain steadfast to the vision we imagined when we first launched our organization. Amy Klement shares the future we imagine for learners and their families.

Today's challenges call for creative investment strategies in philanthropy. Imaginable Futures is mentioned in this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review for our innovative approach.

Amy Klement interviews with Forbes to share how Imaginable Futures is diving deeper and collaborating with partners to address systematic inequities that perpetuate barriers for learners.

For philanthropy to drive sustainable change, we need to rethink traditional models that are too often top-down and risk perpetuating the same systems of oppression they seek to transform.

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At Imaginable Futures, we won’t pretend that we know what all of those solutions might be. But, we are committed to working together to find out. And we know this starts with listening.

When our philanthropic investment firm launched last year, we could never have anticipated the year that was 2020. Here’s how our values guided us in 2020 and the learnings we’re taking into 2021.

Amy Klement and Erin Simmons share our Learning Reimagined: Radical Thinking for Equitable Futures report and invite you explore drivers of change, early signals of hope and future scenarios.

In Part 2, Amy Klement, shares the investments Imaginable Futures has made both within its current portfolio as well as new investments that will help those in need.

In this two-part series, Amy Klement shares how she is looking at the education landscape and how Imaginable Futures might best help learners around the world against the current crisis.

With the global COVID-19 pandemic impacting all our lives – and the lives of our families and communities around the world – we are thinking of you, what you may need and how we can best assist.

For International Women's Day, we honor our Imaginable Futures portfolio and the incredible women who have persevered to be part of the solutions for learners and their families.

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Across the US and around the world, education technology, or “edtech,” has been under attack.

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Amy Klement

Q+A

Why do you love coming to work?

What lessons do you keep with you today?

Your Moment of Zen?

Favorite Quote:

What did you want to be when you grew up?

What’s the closest thing to real magic in this world?

If someone narrated your life, who would you want it to be?

Read more from Amy Klement

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