DC Community Board, Member Programming Chair Candidate

Meet Sage.

Armed with a patent-pending algorithm to convert song lyrics into literacy tools, Gil Perkins (doing business as Sage Salvo) developed a digital platform as a service (PaaS), called The Opus, to facilitate the mass collaboration between music artists and classrooms for automating lesson plans for literacy instruction.

Salvo is an award-winning social-entrepreneur founder of Words Liive and Opus World 501(c)3, and is also the 2022 Milken-Penn Education Business Prize Grand Winner! Sage is also a 2023 a16z Talent times Opportunity Portfolio Company receiving investment from Andreessen Horowitz, a 2021 Aspen Institute Tech Policy Fellow. As a ‘edtech entrepreneur’, Sage was selected as a 2021 Elite 200 GSV Cup Startup, a 2021 4.0 Schools Alumni Coach, 2020 AfroTech World Finalist, 2020 Harvard Alumni Launch Lab Accelerator Fellow, 2020 Education Pioneers Fellow, 2018 AT&T Aspire Entrepreneur, 2018 Lean-Lab Fellow, 2017 Clinton Global Initiative – Social Entrepreneur, and 2017 Camelback Ventures Fellow.

He is also a 2017 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School where he earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on Social Innovation. In 2019 and 2017, Sage was honored as a selection into the US Delegation of Entrepreneurs to represent the U.S. at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Hague, Netherlands and in Hyderabad, India; respectively. Sage was awarded the 2022 Educator Innovator of the Year by Montgomery College’s BOND Academy