Betsy Corcoran

Elizabeth “Betsy” Corcoran is co-founder and CEO of EdSurge, an award-winning news and information site on education technology. EdSurge delivers news for educators and entrepreneurs, maintains a detailed catalog of edtech product, lists top edtech jobs and runs a national conference for administrators called Fusion. Betsy has received national recognition for her work as a journalist. She’s been a staff writer and editor for Scientific American magazine, the Washington Post and Forbes Media. She has been a Fellow in the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a featured commentator on television programs including NBC's "Press Here," Forbes on Fox, CNBC and other programs. She is a member of the strategic advisory board for the CPRE Knowledge Hub, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Consortium for Policy Research and a Fellow with the Pahara Institute. She has a BA in economics and math from Georgetown University.