Mitchell Kapor Biography

Mitch Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3 the killer app which made the PC ubiquitous in business. He is a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation which defends free speech privacy innovation and consumer rights in the digital realm. He is also the founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation creator of the Firefox web browser.In 1997 Mr. Kapor endowed the Mitchell Kapor Foundation a private foundation which works to ensure fairness and equity particularly for low-income communities of color. Current areas of focus for the foundation include building sustainable communities affording greater access to college education for young African-American males and protecting the integrity of the electoral process.Since 2001 Mr. Kapor has been a director and major funder of the Level Playing Field Institute which works to increase fairness in education and the workplace by closing the opportunity gap and removing barriers to success. LPFI operates the Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH) to prepare students from underrepresented communities to be competitive in science technology engineering and math (STEM) related studies at top universities.

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