Adopt a Student, Save a Nation
- Part of an effort that has raised millions for students in Lebanon
- Mentors students directly over Zoom
- Leads fundraising at school
Alexander Nassar
Co-founder, Stepping Stones Financialnassar@steppingstonesfinancial.org
My name is Alexander Nassar. I am a senior at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio. I am Lebanese American, raised by parents who immigrated from Lebanon. I am interested in how ideas take shape inside institutions, and who those institutions end up serving.
The communities I grew up around worked hard. What held people back was a financial system that assumes you already know things many families were never taught.
Stepping Stones Financial is how Gabriel and I are working to close that gap: a free course in plain language that assumes nothing about what you already know.
Experience and interests
Model United Nations
- All-American Model UN; travel team ranked first nationally
- First place at Duke University
- Competed at Penn, Michigan, Emory, Maryland and in Japan
Center for Ignatian Pedagogy
- Student researcher
- Works to preserve and strengthen Jesuit education policy
- Collaborates with teachers and professors on education research
Interests
- Dance, fashion, gardening and painting