Jay Kimmelman

Bridge International Academies is a private network of nursery and primary schools educating the poorest students in developing countries including Kenya, Uganda and India. Bridge charges families roughly six dollars per month for a pupil to attend school and uses economies of scale to keep costs low across its more than 400 academies. Jay speaks with Jessica Harris about how he and his wife Shannon are building their network of schools, from scratch. Listen to the interview

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