Larry Berger

Trustee. CEO, Amplify Education

Larry Berger is the CEO of Amplify, a Brooklyn-based education company he co-founded (previously Wireless Generation) in 2000. He has led the invention of mobile software to help early reading teachers, and next-generation English, math, and science curricula for elementary and middle schools. Mr. Berger was a Rhodes scholar, a White House Fellow working on educational technology at NASA, and a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow. He serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, and the Institute for Sustained Attention. Prior to founding Amplify, Mr. Berger served as the educational technology specialist at the Children’s Aid Society, where he led the development of four community computer labs in disadvantaged neighborhoods that have served as models of using technology to empower young people. Mr. Berger also developed, with Amplify co-founder Greg Gunn, the Hole in the Web, an online extension of Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang camp for children with cancer and blood diseases. As a White House Fellow, he worked on science education in the office of the administrator of NASA. Mr. Berger holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. He has published widely on education and on educational entrepreneurship and has served as a co-investigator on several federally funded research grants.