My Nonprofit Reviews

Volunteering with TeachAids has been a defining moment of my life, and I’d highly recommend others get involved. I first got involved after taking a Stanford University course taught by Founder & CEO, Dr. Piya Sorcar. In this class students had the opportunity to design interventions to implement into TeachAids programs (for me, this involved building a recommended educational module for the TeachAids CrashCourse concussion education program). However, the network of TeachAids goes beyond just the Stanford University campus and the Bay Area, with volunteers, advisors, and partnered organizations across the U.S. and internationally. I’ve even had the opportunity to recruit and bring in volunteers from my hometown in Cincinnati, OH.

Piya is an amazing professor, mentor, and friend. No doubt as to why so many of her current and former students stay involved with TeachAids. She truly invests her all into mentoring and supporting TeachAids volunteers (whether you were a former student of hers or not). She has written me numerous recommendation letters for scholarships and graduate programs, helped me establish connections with experts in various fields, and provided me with invaluable professional/academic guidance. After getting involved with TeachAids outside of my classes with Piya, as an Intern, I got the opportunity to introduce concepts for interventions that became realized programs, like CoviDB 4 Kids, a kid-friendly COVID-19 education intervention. Furthermore, I got the opportunity to be promoted to a Global Health Fellow and have increased responsibilities and impact within the organization. It’s my work at TeachAids that has no doubt led me to pursue work at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the Stanford University School of Medicine, and other organizations that have given me opportunities of a lifetime to make a positive impact in the world (outside of what I already got to do at TeachAids).

However you decide to get involved with TeachAids (volunteer, partner, donor, etc), I can’t recommend enough that you do. You will not regret working with this powerhouse organization and team changing the world for the better.