Nínive Clements Calegari

Nínive Clements Calegari is an American educator, author, and nonprofit founder. Following ten years of classroom experience in public schools, she became an author and founded a national literacy program, 826 National. She also founded The Teacher Salary Project. She is the CEO of Enterprise for Youth, an organization that empowers young people to prepare for and discover career opportunities in the San Francisco area through a three-phase program model of job-readiness training, paid internships with college credit, and ongoing career development and networking support.

Biography

For high school, Calegari went to Santa Catalina School and graduated in 1989, later going to Middlebury College to receive her bachelor's degree in 1993 and a Masters in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995.

She worked at Leadership High School, San Francisco's first charter school, where she also was on the board of directors, and then taught in her family's hometown in Mexico.

Calegari was a co-founder of 826 Valencia in April 2002 and the founding executive director. The group and the seven other related chapters, including 826NYC, 826LA, 826 Seattle, (which later moved on to become The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas), 826 Chicago, 826 Ann Arbor, 826 Boston and finally 826DC, all of which are a part of 826 National (which she also co-founded and headed) are a group of non-profit writing centers for students ages 6–18. Subsequently, 826-like models have been duplicated in 40 places around the world, including in London, Dublin, and Mexico.

Calegari, along with Dave Eggers and Daniel Moulthrop, co-authored The New York Times bestselling book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers, published by The New Press in 2005.