Molly Fohn has worked in education as a teacher in Central America, advocate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and in the edtech startup space in Boston. In supporting edtech entrepreneurs, she started to notice that sometimes the success of an app or program was more tied to internet availability for students and parents than the actual app itself, and set to work to make sure students and families were getting connected. In the process, she learned that it’s a much larger systemic issue, touching on almost every inequity that people face.
As the digital divide has been massively exposed throughout the Covid-19 era, she has shifted away from education and awareness and more into policy and coalition-building to make lasting changes as the effects from Covid-19 fade. Throughout her work at Voqal, a spectrum licensee, she has learned about spectrum and broadband regulation at the federal, state, and local levels, the mechanics of building out networks and refurbishing computers, galvanizing coalitions, and supporting community leaders. A lifelong learner, she is thrilled to gain new skills and understanding around digital equity, justice, self-determination and sovereignty.
Molly holds a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of Texas at Austin and, after living in many places around the US and the world, is back home in San Antonio, Texas.