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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Karthik Soora |
| Address | 7676 Hillmont St
Houston, Texas , United States |
| Email | info@karthikfortexas.com |
| Website | [Link] |
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(2024 years) |
| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RP
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| Info | Karthik grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas and attended Arkansas’s public magnet schools as part of a busing program.
He wasn’t born in Texas, but he got here as fast as he could! Karthik attended Rice University in Houston, where he earned a triple major in Political Science, History, and Asian Studies with a minor in Global Health Technologies.
After completing his undergraduate studies, Karthik became a chemistry teacher and taught in the Houston Independent School District in Houston’s East End at Eastwood Academy, a school with over 85% of the students ranking as economically disadvantaged. His students scored over two standard deviations ahead of predicted district exams scores on the TAKS and STAAR Chemistry exams, and over 12 students passed the AP Chemistry exam, a feat that had never before been achieved at Eastwood Academy.
Karthik was then recruited to work for the newly-founded Emerge Program, where he recruited, managed, and taught over 50 first generation, low-income students who were accepted into top tier universities. While working in HISD, Karthik realized that there was no one-stop online shop for enrichment programs geared towards high-achieving low-income students. So he co-founded a social venture called One Jump, a web platform that links low-income students to transformative enrichment opportunities to improve college access. He assembled a team and negotiated partnerships with four public school networks to connect the platform to over 5,000 teachers and 30,000 students nationwide. The organization was showcased in the Houston Chronicle, Huffington Post, and Xconomy as a game-changing social venture in education. One Jump still exists now as a 501c(3) organization called Momentum Education that has helped over 600 students, and Karthik remains on the Board of Advisers.
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