LiteracyUp! was born out of a partnership between Messis Capital and educator Alan Sitomer.

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ALAN SITOMER

Alan is a California Teacher of the Year award winner, author of more than 20 books for Disney and Scholastic, national keynote speaker, and CEO of an ed-tech company bringing coding for emerging technologies into secondary classrooms. He currently travels the country as a keynote speaker offering professional development that combines his passion for teaching and writing with his drive to deliver meaningful, research-based pedagogy. Above all else, his greatest joy comes from being a dad.

MESSIS CAPITAL

Messis Capital is an ethically driven company on a mission to increase literacy rates in low-income households. Messis Capital strategically acquires and transforms well-located, underserved, and undervalued multifamily real estate. The company achieves meaningful investor returns while enriching the lives of residents and improving neighboring communities.