Marilyn Mosley Gordanier

Marilyn Mosley Gordanier is an American educator, speaker, author, and founder of Laurel Springs School, recognized for establishing the first online K-12 school in the United States, Japan, and Korea. In 1996, Bryant Gumbel on the Today Show highlighted it as the "wave of the future." She advocates for girls' education globally, co-founding Educate Girls Now to address the plight of underprivileged Afghan girls, particularly under Taliban control.

Her career began with founding Laurel Springs School in 1991, which grew to serve over 85,000 students. In 1995, she co-founded Mother of Divine Grace, a Catholic distance education school serving 6,000 students annually. By 2001, she extended her impact by co-founding Eikoh Web Internet High School in Tokyo and Laurel Springs/C2 Korea.

Laurel Springs received the UN Global 500 Award in 1991 and the President's Youth Environmental Award in 1997. Mosley Gordanier also designed environmental curricula like Kids4earth, earning her the Outstanding Service to Environmental Education award. In 2010, she was honored for Outstanding Leadership by the United States Distance Learning Association.

She serves on various boards: Educate Girls Now, Global 500 Environmental Forum (past-President), Captain Planet Foundations as Education Chair, and Secretary of the US Association of Club of Rome. Additionally, she advises Global Schools Without Walls, educating refugee children in France, and blogs for The Huffington Post.