KQED-FM, Commonwealth Club May 22, 2009 by Kathryn Baron
http://audio.commonwealthclub.org/audio/podcast/cc_20090506_kopp.mp3
“Wendy Kopp was a newly released Princeton graduate. While her classmates were vying for jobs on Wall Street, Wendy was moving into a $500-dollar a month brownstone apartment … with a 26-thousand dollar grant from Mobile Corporation, donated space, and a determination to start a national teacher corps for the country’s most disadvantaged children. With that leap of faith, Teach for America was born.”