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Applications for the 2027 Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Chocolate History Grant will be accepted through October 23, 2026.
We are living in an age of disruption. The institutions that once organized our civic, economic, and cultural life are straining, and innovation is urgently needed. As Dick Foster and Clay Christensen taught us, disruption is not about creating chaos—it is about using moments of transition to design solutions that meet unmet needs, the “jobs to be done.” Today’s young people carry many such unmet needs: they need to feel seen, to be engaged, to find hope, and to discover purpose. This keynote will argue that history, when taught with the insights of neuroscience and learning science, is one of the most powerful disruptive innovations we have. Properly designed, historical learning experiences can meet those needs by activating belonging, identity, and agency. Drawing on the Co:Lab’s expertise and research on civics and neuroscience, the session will explore how history can unlock key “aha” moments—moments that shape neural pathways, foster curiosity and resilience, and support civic imagination. Far from being a static record, history can be a tool that strengthens the biology of learning and contributes to mental health and thriving. The keynote will also provide practical steps for museum educators and history professionals:
As we mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, this session will show how history, taught in alignment with how humans learn and develop, can be the most constructive form of disruption: equipping young people to contribute with creativity, courage, and purpose to the future we need.
Fernande Raine, Ph.D., founder of The History Co:Lab, is a systems-change entrepreneur committed to strengthening democracy with the power of better history teaching. After spending much of her undergraduate years in Germany on student government and democracy building efforts in the former Soviet Union, she completed a PhD in History at Yale. She then joined McKinsey and after a few years was recruited to launch the social entrepreneurship organization Ashoka in Western Europe. She was a serial entrepreneur within Ashoka, starting and leading various programs for 12 years, with a sabbatical in the middle to run the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard, where she created a collaborative research project to reframe how we measure impact in the field of Human Rights. She launched The History Co:Lab in 2018 with seed funding from Ashoka to reorient our history education eco-systems towards preparing young people to succeed as changemakers. The History Co:Lab is a field building incubator for innovation in History, and has created an award-winning youth podcast UnTextbooked, as well as several initiatives and networks that activate museums as sites of local, inspired learning.
