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Prep for Prep not only transforms the lives of its students, it positively impacts their families, their communities, and the broader world. Many Prep alum have achieved success and are now paying it forward through organizations that improve the lives of those in underserved communities. This video features three of these stories.

For more than a decade, Google has been a crucial partner to the Institute for Entrepreneurship (IFE), Prep for Prep’s five-week summer program for rising 10th and 11th graders who want to learn how to use the principles of entrepreneurship and coding to develop solutions to problems in their communities. This video celebrates the program and our collaboration with the technology leader.

For the 2022 Lilac Ball, Prep for Prep spoke with alumni Pablo Zevallos (XXVIII), Cheryl Campos (XXVIII), and Bessie Birhanu (XXIX) to share their experiences in some of our leadership development programs and to offer advice for our recent graduates.

High school students present their research on science, education, and social issues at Prep's virtual Aspects of Leadership Symposium. 

Meet four exceptional alums from each of Prep’s four decades of launching leaders and inspiring change. Featuring an alum judge, education nonprofit leader, astrophysics PhD student, and tech entrepreneur. 

See how these immigrants, strivers, and doers are defining and achieving their American Dreams. Featuring Prep students Ushrat A. (XXXIX), Alrick S. (XXXIV), and Nuha S. (P9 XXIII).

Ashley Greaves (XXVIII) graduates from Yale and Amanda Boston (XXII) works towards a PhD at Brown.

Renée Chung (XVII), Ray Lopez (XI), and Ed Poteat (VI) help transform Harlem through their work in community health, education, and real estate development.

Meet three entrepreneurial alumni in education, business, and medicine: Clifford Thomas (XVII), Jessica Johnson-Cope (VIII), Vicente Diaz (P9 V).

Experience the advisory system through Diahann Billings-Burford (VI), Anne-Carmene Almonord (XV), and Maxine Mitchell (XXII).

In Success Is Better Shared, we celebrate the many ways the Prep community does just that–how success is shared with family, fellow alumni, and more. In addition, we highlight new staff, new Trustees, our new programs, and a new alumni recognition, The Renée M. Chung Prize.

We celebrate the many ways we were able to reunite as a community after more than two years of Covid-19 restrictions. In addition, we shine a spotlight on alumni who are leaders in the field of education, introduce a new Leadership Development Opportunities program, showcase a mentoring program for our college students, and highlight developments in our computer science curriculum.

We invite you to explore our programming that continues to expand with our inaugural virtual Aspects of Leadership symposium and our first virtual Lilac Ball. Hear from our students who found ways to build community while remote learning, and from our alumni who continue to inspire as leaders in a year like no other.

We spotlight Prep for Prep's evolving student programs and interview trailblazing alumni in creative careers covering photography, journalism, and entrepreneurship. In unpredictable times with no predetermined paths to success, our resilient and vibrant community shows us we are ready to lead and build our own.

We highlight three individuals in the Prep Community seeking to effect change on a national scale: 
• An eighth grader advocating for gun control with a New York State Senator
• A college junior learning about policymaking at the U.S. House of Representatives
• An alum (who is also a Prep Trustee) improving cities worldwide through Bloomberg Philanthropies

We highlight individuals who reflect the core values of Excellence, Integrity, Commitment, and Courage that have led to Prep's success.

Prep celebrates those alumni who have chosen public service as their lives' work. The areas and means by which they are affecting change are impressive: civil rights, climate change, health care coverage, and workforce development.