Alex Bernadotte

2019 YBCA 100 Honoree

Alexandra (Alex) Bernadotte is the founder and CEO of Beyond 12, a high-tech, high-touch nonprofit that integrates personalized coaching with mobile technology to increase the number of traditionally underserved students who graduate from college. Bernadotte is an Ashoka Fellow, a Jefferson Award for Public Service winner, a San Francisco Chronicle Visionary of the Year award nominee, and a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow. Fast Company has named Beyond 12 one of the ten most innovative education companies in the world.