Kopp, Wendy

1989 - She founded Teach for America.

1991 - She received the Kilby Young Innovator Award and the Jefferson Award for Public Service.

1993 - Kopp is the youngest person and the first woman to receive Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award.

1994 - Aetna’s Voice of Conscience Award recepient, also she recieved the Citizen Activist Award from the Gleitsman Foundation.

         - In December, Time Magazine recognized her as one of the forty most promising leaders under 40.

1995 - Honorary doctorate degree Connecticut College and Drew University.

2000 - Honorary doctorate degree from Princeton University.

2001 - Honorary doctorate degree from Smith College.

2003 - She was appointed to the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation and to the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

         - Kopp has received Child magazine’s Children’s Champion Award, the Clinton Center Award for Leadership and National Service, the Schwab Foundation’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.

2004 - Honorary doctorate degree from Pace University and Mercy College.