Sessions
Putting Mission Back into Admission
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM Thu
Akil Bello is an educator, speaker, entrepreneur, and testing expert. Going on his third decade in the shadow education industry, he has developed dozens of admissions and test preparation programs, trained hundreds of teachers, and helped thousands of students prepare for tests from the APGAR to the LSAT.
After selling Bell Curves, a socially responsible test preparation he founded with his brother, Akil served as the Director of Equity and Access for The Princeton Review, where he continued to work to increase access to education for disadvantaged communities. Currently, he serves Senior Director of Advocacy and Advancement at FairTest, where he works to build resources and tools to ensure that large scale assessment tests are used responsibly and transparently to benefit students. Akil graduated with a degree in Architecture from THE Hillman College.