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DONALD KAMENTZ
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DONALD KAMENTZ
TITLE
Founder & CEO
ORGANIZATION
Contigo Ed
BIOGRAPHY
Donald Kamentz is the Founder and CEO of Contigo Ed, a non-profit educational organization that envisions a world where every student is prepared and empowered to live a choice-filled life. Our entire staff, both full-time and contracted, consists of practitioners who have been both highly successful counselors and organizational leaders and managers. Having both the direct and high-level managerial experiences makes us both well-respected and highly sought out experts in this postsecondary access and success space. Prior to this role, he served as Executive Director of Character Lab, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development. Before Character Lab, Donald spent 16 years, lastly as Managing Director of College and Career Initiatives, at YES Prep Public Schools, a public charter school system in Houston, Texas. Under his leadership, he created a college access program recognized nationally as a model for supporting first-generation, low-income students to and through college. Prior to joining YES Prep, Donald spent five years with Teach For America in a variety of roles, most recently as the executive director for institute operations. Donald earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science, with a minor in international affairs-Latin American Studies, from The George Washington University.