Laurene Powell

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Laurene Powell (born 1964) is co-founder and President of the Board of College Track and wife of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs.

College Track is an after-school program providing comprehensive support to high school students who have the desire and ability but lack the resources to attain higher education.^[1] College Track provides daily academic support, leadership training, community service, internship opportunities and extracurricular involvement. Since its inception in 1997, the organization has served over 350 students in East Palo Alto and Oakland. All College Track graduates have been accepted to college.

Prior to College Track, Powell co-founded Terravera, a natural foods company that manufactured and delivered organic products to over 300 retailers daily throughout Northern California. Additionally she served on the Board of Directors of Achieva, an award-winning educational company that specialized in online tools to help students improve study skills and standardized test performance. Prior to business school, Powell worked for Merrill Lynch Asset Management and spent three years at Goldman Sachs as a fixed income trading strategist.

Powell turned her attention to non-profit entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on education, women’s human rights, and the arts. Currently, her board affiliations include: Board of Directors: Global Fund for Women; KQED (PBS); EdVoice; New America Foundation; Stanford Schools Corporation; and Advisory Board, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Powell holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S.E. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford.

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Powell and Steve Jobs married in 1991. Presiding over the wedding was the Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogowa. Jobs and Powell have had four children together. Powell and Steve Jobs live in Palo Alto with their four children.

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