AboutEdu is a non-profit organization made up of volunteer industry and community advisors whose support and guidance has been critical to the launch of the organization, and the development of its national research efforts in online retooling programs.  

Our advisors work with the AboutEdu team with the mission of educating, engaging, and increasing access to "qualified" skills-based online education to displaced workers worldwide. The personal experiences of many of our advisors and their industry and community expertise has helped us to shape the strategic plan of AboutEdu's initial efforts and services.  

AboutEdu's Industry and Community Advisors' backgrounds cover quite a range, but include:

• an electrician who after 15 years on the job - successfully "retrained" himself into a new job opportunity in the healthcare industry;
• small Business owner whose business is now loosing money; he cannot sell, and must now return to the workforce to earn enough money to keep his family and their small business afloat 
• unemployed workers from various industries and from different management levels
• an international mergers and acquisitions new york city attorney who has retooled himself to the public sector;
•  human resource professionals from industries ranging from technology to healthcare to finance,
• - campus-based university professors,
• - to a manager at one of the country's largest credit card groups who has spent all his life in an industry undergoing major changes;
• -  online education faculty;
• - government workers overwhelmed with the number of unemployed and displaced workers,
• to a working mother having to take several jobs to make ends meet, and wanting to change her future,
• displaced non-english speakers,
• a leading strategic management consultant who advices some of the country's top executives on new international consumer and labor trends;
• a recent immigrant who in less than a year taught herself English while at the same time retraining to become a teacher;
• a retired housewife, whose husband has just died, and whose retirement savings have dwindled in value , and must now get retrained to reenter the workforce,
• a priest whose community and worshippers have been deeply impacted high unemployment, job elimination, business closings, and home foreclosures