Audrey Wisch is the CEO and Co-Founder and Curious Cardinals, a global community where K-12 students discover and pursue their passions, build confidence, and unlock their greatest potential with the guidance of college mentors they aspire to be.

Audrey started Curious Cardinals as an undergraduate at Stanford University; after teaching her first workshop on mass incarceration to high school students at the start of the pandemic, Audrey decided to mobilize her most ambitious peers at Stanford and beyond to join her in teaching the topics they were passionate about to K-12 students and serving as their near-peer mentors.

Since then, Audrey has taken time off from Stanford to pursue Curious Cardinals full time, now a community of over 400 college mentors mentoring students around the world. The company has raised $6.8 million in seed funding led by Anthos Capital and Audacious Ventures, and has been featured on CNN and Bloomberg. Audrey was also recognized in the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Education and Youngest category.

Recommended Resources

Curious Cardinal student Matthew’s video game that he has been building with mentors over the past two years can be seen here and a video of Matthew + his parents here.
Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich
System Error by by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami andJeremy M. Weinstein
Infinite Game by Simon Senak

Curious Cardinals is Hiring!

Lucy Chen is hiring for two roles on my team.

Both work directly with the most amazing part of Curious Cardinals: our mentors, a community of the most passionate and ambitious college students in the world!

1. Mentor Success Manager (mid-level)

Looking for a system-minded ops person with strong learning background to scale our current ways of supporting mentors and preparing mentors to teach.

2. Mentor Talent & Community Manager (entry- OR mid-level)

Looking for a passionate community person to recruit and curate the mentor community. Strongly prefer someone with prior experience managing both virtual and in-person communities.

Mentoring, Tutoring and Experiential Learning with Audrey Wisch, CEO of Curious Cardinals

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