Brian Bordainick

Brian Bordainick is a bona fide serial entrepreneur. In the summer of 2007, while working for Teach for America, Brian traveled to New Orleans expecting to join the faculty at a local high school. What he found on his first day of work was a parking lot full of FEMA trailers and the flooded skeleton of what was once the high school. With trailers for classrooms, no money, no supplies, too few desks and no experience, Brian rose to the occasion and became both a full time teacher and the athletic director at G. W. Carver High School in the 9th Ward. He was the youngest athletic director in the history of the city. With few resources and against unimaginable odds, Brian was able to resurrect Carver's once-renowned athletic program in a community where only approximately 37 percent of the residents have returned since Hurricane Katrina.

Plagued by the extreme violence in the city and bolstered by the support of the Carver community, Brian founded the 9th Ward Field of Dreams in order to support the construction of a state-of-the-art football field and track on Carver's campus in an effort to provide after school activities and combat the alarmingly high crime rates. At the time, New Orleans' murder rate exceeded that of Chicago's, a city with roughly 15-times the inhabitants. In just two short years, the organization achieved the impossible and reached its goal of raising $1.85 million in funding for the facility. They broke ground in the fall of 2012. By constructing this extraordinary facility, not only will the community feel a sense of empowerment, but it will contribute to the health and wellness of students, lower crime rates by providing after school activities and send a much needed message to the students—that despite the great setbacks they have faced, they still matter.

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