Diversity

At Blue Engine, we seek individuals of all backgrounds to join our team, embracing our differences, big, small, seen and unseen, as crucial to the success of our mission.

When productively channeled within a shared culture of core values, these differences create the conditions for self-discovery, open communication, critical thinking, and—most importantly—our collective ability to create a measurable and lasting impact in the lives of young people.

Working with high school students in small group settings to advance academic achievement requires that we develop a sophisticated understanding of our students’ motivations and remain aware of how various influences are acting upon them. We must learn from our surroundings and from how people react to our work. We must cultivate a sense of empathy as a precondition for effectiveness, never confusing the power of good intentions with the power of results.

Blue Engine Fellows and staff are a close-knit team of young professionals. We work together in schools, but also spend time together planning, strategizing, and discussing tough issues.  Each Fellow’s background brings something different to the Blue Engine experience.  By establishing a culture that encourages Fellows to communicate openly with each other, to learn from and to trust each other, we create the conditions necessary for Fellows to accelerate student achievement while developing their capacities as leaders in a diverse world.

At Blue Engine, diversity and inclusion center on relationships.  We do not shy away from themes of diversity and inclusion but rather honor them by trying to fully understand them.  In so doing, we arrive at a better understanding of ourselves.  By moving forward with humility, self-awareness, and a shared sense of purpose, we dedicate ourselves to the kind of relationships necessary to advance our collective mission and achieve educational excellence and equity in this country.