Elisabeth Stock, a 1986 graduate of Scarsdale High School, has been inducted into Ashoka’s International

Read Elisabeth's bio here.

Fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs who are changing patterns across society. The induction ceremony took place last month at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles.

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, headquartered in Arlington, VA, supports those who share entrepreneurial and business leadership qualities—vision, innovation, determination and long-term commitment—but are devoted to making systemic social change. Ashoka Fellows are recognized for their innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing social problems.

Stock was elected as a fellow for her innovative approach to ending the cycle of low-educated parents having low-educated children. Convinced that a child’s home holds great untapped potential for improving academic and lifelong success, she co-launched Computers for Youth about a decade ago. Since then, CFY has provided home learning centers and family workshops to over 17,000 low-income middle school students and their parents.

Under Stock’s leadership, CFY has expanded from serving 230 families in the South Bronx to serving 4,000 families annually in New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, and has become a national leader in the field of improving the home learning environment of low-income families.

The Educational Testing Service concluded that the CFY program has a statistically significant effect of students’ standardized math test scores.

Stock has served as an adviser to the New York City Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and was on the New York City Broadband Advisory Committee. Prior to her work at CFY, she served as a White House Fellow and principal architect of a computer donation program from federal agencies to needy schools.

She taught high school for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Later, she was a technology specialist for the World Bank in Africa.

Stock served as a member of the MIT Board of Trustees for five years and is the youngest individual ever appointed to the MIT Executive Committee, 2000-02. She was honored in 2001 by Crain’s New York Business as one of 40 New Yorkers under the age of 40 who were shaping the city.

Stock earned bachelor’s degrees in engineering and writing and master’s degrees in urban planning, and technology and policy, all at MIT.