Stephen Schutz

Background

About Stephen Schutz

In 2002 I opened Starfall.com, a social enterprise to help teach young children to read (I consider myself an expert in this field becuase I couldn't read myself until the 5th-6th grade). Starfall Education expanded into math and became widely used in the US and worldwide. It became a non-profit 501c3 in 2015. In 1997 I founded the bluemountain.com with my son Jared Polis. The idea originated when I designed and programed an electronic greeting card for my son's birthday. In 1972 my wife (Susan Polis) and I "dropped out" to travel the country. To support ourselves we sold our handmade posters - this evolved (accidentally) into a business: Blue Mountain Arts greetings (which we still own today). I received a PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University, in 1970. But spent most of my time at Princeton campaigning against the Vietnam war. Then I worked at ESSA (now NOAA) in Boulder Colorado for a two-year post-doc. Graduated from MIT in 1965 after studying art at High School of Music and Art in New York.