Femi Adebogun

Femi Adebogun

CEO

SCHOLARME

Femi Adebogun is the CEO of ScholarMe, a Y-Combinator backed company that helps students fund their entire college education with just a single application. To date they've raised over two million dollars to accomplish their mission of radically simplifying how students across the country pay for college. In addition to ScholarMe, Femi serves as a board member for GripTape, an education nonprofit backed by the Gates Foundation and Chan Zuckerburg Initiative. GripTape funds student dreams of driving self-education. In his free time he enjoys running, boxing, and living in NYC with his partner Alisha & their plant Elton.

Monday, March 30th

2:00 pm
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2:40 pm
Harbor Ballroom B, Harbor Tower, 2nd Level
Live Stream

We all know that student debt now exceeds $1.5 trillion. But underneath that eye-popping figure, what is the true cost - to graduates and the economy at large? What are the economic implications? what is the impact on productivity? How does this alter education attainment?…

Elizabeth Akers, Femi Adebogun, Will Sealy, Marc Boxser, Scott Smallwood