Elaine Utin is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of LatinxEd. Through her roles, Elaine focuses on leadership and identity development to help Latinx youth be creatively, civically, and collegiately ready to lead our future in North Carolina. Prior to LatinxEd, Elaine earned her B.A. in Middle Grades Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a first-generation college student and a Gates Millennium Scholar. She also received her Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she studied Technology, Innovation, and Education. In 2018, Elaine was recognized on Forbes’s 30 Under 30: Education list.