Our story
Built for Boston. Built for its kids.
Global Leaders of Boston exists because the city's Black and Brown students deserve a direct path into the tech economy, not someday, but starting in middle school.
Mission
Close the gap. Build the pipeline.
Boston is home to world-class universities, hospitals, and tech companies. Yet the students who grow up in its neighborhoods, overwhelmingly Black and Brown, are largely absent from the workforce those institutions produce.
GLoB was founded to change that. We partner directly with Boston Public Schools to embed industry-recognized certification programs, Cisco, CompTIA, Microsoft, into the school day, at no cost to students or families.
Every student who completes a GLoB track graduates with a credential that employers recognize on day one. No college degree required. No unpaid internship. Just a clear, earned path into a career that pays.
Vision
525+ certified graduates entering Boston's tech workforce by 2035.
We measure success in one number: how many GLoB graduates are working in tech, earning living wages, and building wealth in the communities they grew up in.
GLoB launches at Madison Park in the 2027–2028 school year with one cohort of 15 students. A new school joins every year, reaching five Boston Public Schools by 2031–2032, with 75 new students entering the pipeline each year.
How it started
A gap that couldn't be ignored.
GLoB began with a simple observation: Boston's tech sector was booming, but the students in its public schools had no structured pathway into it. Career and technical education existed, but it wasn't connected to the certifications employers actually hired for.
The founders, educators, technologists, and community organizers, built GLoB to be that connection. Starting with Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, they designed a model that puts real Cisco and CompTIA curriculum inside the school day, one cohort of 15 students at a time.
The model is built to grow deliberately: one school, one cohort, one year at a time. By 2031, five schools will be running. By 2035, the first five cohorts of graduates will be in Boston's tech workforce.
What we stand for
Our values
The team
Educators, technologists, and community builders.
GLoB is led by a team that has worked in Boston Public Schools, in enterprise IT, and in community organizing. We know the system from the inside, and we know what it takes to change it.
Built with partners
No program survives without a village.
GLoB works because of the organizations that believe in it, Cisco Networking Academy, ASC Camden Dream Center, and the Boston Public Schools district. We are actively building our next tier of employer and funder partners.
Ready to be part of the solution?
Whether you're a school, an employer, a funder, or a family, there's a role for you in the GLoB ecosystem.