Lynzi Ziegenhagen

BIO

Lynzi founded the technology innovation team at Aspire Public Schools in 2008 to empower every Aspire teacher, principal, and leader with timely, accurate and actionable data. Five years later, she started Schoolzilla, a Public Benefit Corporation, with the mission of empowering people across the country to use data to improve education forstudents, especially students from under-served communities. Lynzi holds a master’s degree in Computer Science with an emphasis on computer security from the Naval Postgraduate School. She has taught in a community center in South Africa, community colleges in California, and programming sections at Stanford. Lynzi also started her own business creating software for nonprofit organizations and worked at the Children’s Partnership, Booz-Allen and Microsoft.