Colin Seale '12

Boyd alumnus Colin Seale, Founder and CEO of thinkLaw and best-selling author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework to Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students, won the coveted top spot and $20,000 prize money in the Echoing Green and Barclays’ third annual Social Innovation Challenge. The virtual pitch competition convened founders of U.S.-based social enterprises working in health, economic development and education. These social innovators of color discussed how their work addresses the systems changes needed to reimagine an equitable post-COVID-19 future for their communities—many of which are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

Colin delivered an impassioned pitch that giving more kids access to quality critical thinking instruction can carve a path toward racial justice. A former teacher turned lawyer turned critical thinking evangelist and Forbes contributor, Seale founded thinkLaw six years ago to give all students access to the type of game-changing critical thinking education they need to not only fully understand the way the world is, but to question it and imagine the way the world ought to be.