Geoffrey Canada is the president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a nonprofit, community-based organization that President Barack Obama called “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children” and the New York Times Magazine deemed “one of the most ambitious social experiments of our time.” Canada has become nationally recognized for his pioneering work and as a passionate advocate for education reform. Jonathan Kozol called him “one of the few authentic heroes of New York and one of the best friends children have, or ever will have, in our nation,” and Oprah Winfrey simply refers to him as “an angel from God.” He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the Harvard School of Education, and is the recipient of honorary degrees from Harvard University, Bowdoin College, Williams College, John Jay College, Bank Street College, and Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary. Canada’s work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, and The Colbert Report, as well as in articles for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many more publications. He is featured in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Waiting for “Superman”. A sixth-degree black belt, Canada is also the founder of the Chang Moo Kwan Martial Arts School, where he continues to teach violence-prevention methods and the principles of tae kwon do.