Michelle Brown is the CEO and Founder of CommonLit, a nonprofit education technology organization working towards increasing reading, writing, communication, and problem solving efficacy for students, especially in Title I schools. Brown left her job as a 7th grade reading teacher in Mississippi in 2013 when she came to the realization that teachers like her were in desperate need of resources to provide students with a more personalized, effective education. Armed with a passion to educate and educate effectively, Michelle pioneered CommonLit to build “over 2,000 high-quality free reading passages for grades 3-12” designed with every child’s different needs in mind. CommonLit not only has created the content for students in need, but also has reached a significant number of them– 10 million.