Co-Founder & CEO
Nelson Thomas
Nelson co-founded ecoText alongside Jöel from a campus coffee shop. Today, he leads the company in fulfilling its mission. To lower barriers to education and empower students to build connection through the curriculum.
Co-Founder & COO
Joel Nkounkou
Jöel founded ecoText out of his college apartment in 2018 to make education more equitable and affordable. Today, he ensures the companies day to day operations are aligned fulfill key outcomes that support our purpose.
Co-Founder & CTO
Dylan Wheeler
Dylan co-founded ecoText alongside Nelson and Joel in 2018. Today, he is the platform's architect and head engineer. He works hand-to-hand with educators to take in product feedback and ensure success with ecoText.
Chief Academic Officer
Dr. Carol Langlois
Carol Langlois Ed.D joined ecoText as an advisor after a cold email turned into a 30 min telephone call. Today, she is the company's CAO and connects with academic leadership to foster meaningful partnerships with ecoText.
A Broken System
Built by students, for students
The average student must budget $1,200 or more annually for their textbooks. Nelson, Joel and Dylan among them as undergraduates. This is simply unsustainable.
We seek to lower the cost of content, empower students to embrace education, and apply their learning for real-world outcomes.
"Creating opportunity through affordability"
Education
Education is our society's single most effective vehicle to uplift people out of poverty. Through affordable access to high-quality learning technology and content, we have the opportunity to create more inclusive and engaging classrooms that help scholars build a love for learning. A skill that has the power to change their lives.
Economy
We seek to provide a solution that no matter a student's economic background, can access a learning platform that increases engagement and lowers the cost of content. So students can reach their potential without drowning in debt.
Environment
Digital content lowers the environmental impact of creating physical books, lowers the carbon footprint associated with transportation, and saves our forests from the destruction created by commercial lumbering. With ecoText, a cohort of 15,000 students can save an estimated 3,600 trees annually, a forest roughly the size of a major league baseball stadium.
To be affordable
We are driven by our mission to ensure our solution is lowering barriers to education not increasing them.
To be accessible
We prioritize creating a platform and company that is accessible for everyone. Therefore, all can benefit and participate in ecoText.
To be student first
The needs and outcomes of the students come first. With the help of instructors we look to build a solution that empowers learners to better themselves through education.