InterThesis exists because many of our most important civic and educational systems weren’t designed with how people actually learn, belong, or participate.
After working across classrooms, school districts, philanthropy, and technology, we’ve seen the same pattern: strong research on human development, weak translation into public systems.
Our work focuses on closing that gap—designing civic and learning infrastructure that strengthens participation, trust, and contribution, especially for young people.
Why civic systems?
System transformation requires seeing our challenges interdisciplinarily. And synthesis across many voices to build something better, together.
Meet Jared
After more than 15 years of working in research, classrooms, school district central offices, edtech startups, and philanthropy, Jared noticed persistent challenges in building, selecting, adopting, and using technology to support students, educators, and leaders in their pursuit of learning for students. Edtech organizations struggle to balance needs, perspectives, priorities of educators and students with research findings and product development processes. His team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) focused on bridging these challenges to build more equitable, accessible, and effective educational technology.
Jared Joiner
Founder, Managing Director