Wendy Kopp ’89

Jean-Christian Bourcart/courtesy Teach for America

Portraits of influence
#13: Wendy Kopp ’89

The only woman to crack our panel’s top 25, Kopp conceived of Teach for America as her senior thesis; it is now one of the leading public-service projects in the country and has sent more than 14,000 recent college graduates to teach in poor schools throughout the United States. end of article


Read about others on the list. Click on the illustration below to read about each person. You can also select individuals by name in the index below.

Portraits of influence

By Michael Witte ’66


Who’s who in the illustration: Numbers in parentheses represent the rankings on the PAW panel’s list.

Portraits of influence key
1 Benjamin Rush 1760 (No. 7)
2 Charles Scribner 1840 (No. 17)
3 John Foster Dulles 1908 (No. 10)
4 Ralph Nader ’55 (No. 25/Tied)
5 Donald Rumsfeld ’54 (No. 25/Tied)
6 John Rawls ’43 *50 (No. 4)
7 Alan Turing *38 (No. 2)
8 Alfred Barr ’22 *23 (No. 21)
9 Jeffrey Moss ’63 (No. 12)
10 Jeff Bezos ’86 (No. 20)
11 Robert Venturi ’47 *50 (No. 19)
12 George Kennan ’25 (No. 6)
13 John Bogle ’51 (No. 23)
14 Paul Volcker ’49 (No. 15)
15 Nicholas Katzenbach ’43 (No. 16)
16 Richard Feynman *42 (No. 14)
17 John Bardeen *36 (No. 5)
18 Wendy Kopp ’89 (No. 13)
19 Laurance Rockefeller ’32 (No. 18)
20 Gary Becker ’51 (No. 11)
21 George Shultz ’42 (No. 9)
22 F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17 (No. 8)
23 Norman Thomas 1905 (No. 24)
24 James Madison 1771 (No. 1)
25 Woodrow Wilson 1879 (No. 3)
26 Philip Freneau 1771 (No. 22)

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