about us
We are all about School and Small Community Journalism.
Our foremost goal is to enable you to connect effectively with your community by producing compelling publications. On the one hand, being high quality print enthusiasts, we are dedicated to giving your work of art, a curator’s care. On the other, we give your project a small business owner’s attention by helping make the economics favorable and the publishing process simpler.
Vivek Garg
FOUNDER & CEO
Vivek founded aPrintis to empower journalism and engagement within schools and other small communities. He has been inspired by seeing first hand how students at budget-strapped schools with access to minimal design resources are still able to mobilize to create pro-quality publications that are winners in their communities.
He believes that the printed magazine format gives schools and communities a voice and entity that powerfully supplements their online presence and makes them stand out. He is particularly passionate about increasing awareness of the multidimensional skills of research and journalism, design and creativity, entrepreneurship and leadership, and basic long form reading and writing skills that the experience of creating a magazine inculcates in students at schools ranging from elementary to high schools to colleges.
Some of Vivek's other passions are data science and technology - he has held senior positions in technology and business at Apple, Bain & Company and AdMaxim.
Vivek holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, MBA from University of Chicago and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Esther Wojcicki
ADVISER
Esther Wojcicki is an internationally known journalism teacher and the founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program, a program that focuses on empowering students through the use of media.
The program started in 1984 with 19 students and has grown to become the largest scholastic media program in the nation today (2020) with 600+ students, six journalism teachers, ten publications, and a new 25,000 sq. ft Media Arts Center.
She is also the founder of Moonshots in Education movement (www.moonshots.com) and she is one of the founders of Google Education.
She is the mother of Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe, and Janet Wojcicki, Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF Medical School. She has been awarded three honorary doctorates as well as numerous other awards.
We are reinventing community publishing.
