About
Impact Focused Education develops an effective educational path for engaging in large-scale high-impact work. We are interested in multiple educational aspects, including building instructional tools to evaluate & prioritize impact, creating training curriculums to help others to meaningfully contribute to important global challenges, and finding how to best motivate students to pursue scale-sensitive impact.​
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Our current focus is on creating the infrastructure that would allow us to scale up our previous educational projects. We are at an early stage of building Impact Focused Education and many changes are expected in the near future. It is highly plausible that there will be opportunities to join us. If you are excited by that please track our Opportunities page, join our mailing list, or write directly to contact@impactfocusededucation.org.
Our Team
Dan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pattern Labs - an organization dedicated to securing advanced technology. He also co-founded Impact Focused Education, which aims to develop an effective educational path for engaging in large-scale high-impact work.
Beyond that, Dan co-created and taught academic courses on topics such as Applied Ethics, received TAU's "Outstanding Lecturer Award" (thrice), co-authored an AI paper that was featured on the cover of Nature, won IBM’s ‘Outstanding Technical Achievement Award’, and was crowned Best Speaker of The World at the World Universities Debating Championship where he holds the all-time personal ranking record for a non-native English speaker.
Co-founder
Sella Nevo is the director of RAND’s Meselson Center, dedicated to reducing risks from biological threats and emerging technologies. He is also a Venture Partner at the VC firm Firstime, which invests in climate startups, and is on the advisory board of ALLFED - the Alliance to Feed the Earth In Disasters.
He previously led the Karmel group at Google Research, which developed the Google Flood Forecasting Initiative, which provides flood forecasts and warnings globally, alongside several other humanitarian and environmental efforts. He also co-founded an impact-focused career advising nonprofit and taught Applied Ethics and Information Security at Tel Aviv University.
Co-founder
Dan is a learning designer specializing in online academic education. Drawing on his extensive teaching experience in fields like Emergency Medicine, History, Philosophy, and Psychometrics, he has led the design of acclaimed online courses, including Unlocking Information Security (ranked #1 in information security and among Class Central's top 100 courses), First Steps in Computer Science, and A Bridge to Academic Mathematics.
Together with Dan Lahav and Sella Nevo, he worked on the Making a Difference course and is currently focused on expanding its reach while creating additional impact-driven content. Dan is also a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor, teaching classes and working with patients.
Director of Pedagogy
