Our Partners 

Our New York City in-school locations include:

• Bronx Excellence
• Manhattan Day School
• Hunter Elementary
• Anderson School
• Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS)
• Cristo Rey
• Thurgood Marshall Academy
• Lower East Side Preparatory School
• Grand Street Settlement / Nest+M
• The Ethical Fieldston School
• Montclare Children's School
• Success Academy
• Fieldston Lower
• United Nations International School
• PS 58 (The Carroll School in Brooklyn)
• PS 75 (Emily Dickinson School)
• Kingsbridge International High School
• International Community High School
• Park East High School
• Renaissance Charter School

"Over the past two summers, it has been a pleasure partnering with Writopia to bring such creative and thought-provoking writing workshops to our Scholars. The curriculum your team developed and facilitated has consistently encouraged reflection, vulnerability, and voice, aligning beautifully with our mission to help Scholars grow as writers and prepare for the college essay process."

Mara E. Dorta, Assistant Director, 11th Grade – SEO Scholars

“For ESPI students the Writopia week is a revelation. For students who have already begun to self-identify as readers and writers the experience is a homecoming. Many of these students continue on their own with Writopia in future years on scholarship. For other students, probably a majority, who are math kids and have never liked “ELA,” Writopia connects their innate verbal flair with a subject that had often seemed dull and restrictive in school.

Our goals are explicitly academic, in that we seek to address the “excellence gap” that keeps many Black, Latinx and low income students out of the pipelines to schools like Hunter, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, but we find that a creative approach like Writopia is essential across disciplines to build deeper motivations that can underlie achievement at high levels as our students progress through school. At an organizational level ESPI’s partnership with Writopia has been a model ”Andy Mccord, Co-founder, program chair

"Thank you so much to Wriopia for providing amazing virtual summer programs for our elementary school community. The teachers were super engaging and you could see the excitement as the scholars shared their stories even through the virtual platform. It is a true testimony to Writiopia that they can translate their creative in-person programming to a remote setting."Charter School Partner