Accounts Payable Specialist, Finance & Grants

Director of Financial Reporting, Finance & Grants

Derek Ozkal is a senior officer, strategic initiatives in Research, Learning, and Evaluation for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he operationalizes evaluation and learning-related initiatives and knowledge generation by emphasizing efforts to capture, explain, and disseminate the Foundation’s legacy of impact, with particular attention to known, large initiatives. Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, […]

Community Relations Specialist

Talent Coordinator, Talent & Culture

Program Leader – Real World Learning, Education

Eight readers share their risk-filled journeys, including business startups, a spontaneous COO resignation, and a single-mom pursuing a bachelor’s degree.

The legacy of the American risk-taker is born out of exploration, oppression, democracy, and the promise of the American Dream. We can conjure the images of American risk-takers from the rebels of the American Revolution, to Harriet Tubman and Harvey Milk, Sally Ride to Sergey Brin. As a startup nation founded on the risk of […]

The Risk Optimistic explores the value of risk, the opportunity of risk, and the belief that taking a chance is worth it.

The founder of Girls Who Code on how programming can teach girls to be brave and take risks.