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Dirk Van Velzen

Executive Director

Prison Scholar Fund

Seattle, Washington

Dirk passion is prisoner education. While incarcerated, he earned degrees from Penn State and founded the Prison Scholar Fund, supporting 110 incarcerated students. Only 4% of the 74 released students have been reincarcerated, compared to 68% nationally. After release, Dirk graduated from a UW Nonprofit Management program, won first place in the SVP Fast Pitch competition, rocked the Stanford GSB Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship, and is now in the Points of Light Civic Accelerator.

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