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Phillip Olaleye’s nonprofit focuses on students in the most underserved, economically disadvantaged schools and communities in Metro Atlanta, specifically in the Fulton County and Atlanta Public School Systems.

Olaleye and his team of mentors and teachers look for the forgotten students in need of support systems and enrichment opportunities. Gender-specific cohorts of students meet with a teacher and mentor twice a week, hopefully for all four years of high school.

“There’s power in tangible experiences,” says Olaleye. “Talent is universal but opportunity is not. We stand in that gap and activate community resources in Atlanta to plug into our students, to help them get excited about their futures.”

Olaleye is also the leader of the Organized Neighbors of Summerhill, working to preserve and protect the quickly gentrifying historic intown neighborhood, the first freed slave and Jewish post-Civil War settlement.