Mike Preiner is the founder of The Math Agency; their mission is to close educational gaps in public schools. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and has founded and sold two software and analytics companies. Mike grew up in a low-income family in rural Minnesota, and was part of the first generation in his family to go to college. His experiences, along with the research on the relationship between education on social inequality, has given him a deep appreciation for the potential of education to drastically impact social mobility.