About Mentora Academy

In the autumn of 2013, two teachers grew tired of watching capable people get locked out of learning. Evening courses at the local college had waiting lists a year long, online classes had completion rates in single digits, and private bootcamps cost more than a used car. There was a gap in the middle and most working adults were falling through it.

So they rented a room above the Haveli Bakery on Linden Avenue, set out eleven chairs, and taught the first web development class on Tuesday nights after work. Word traveled the way it does when something is genuinely useful. Today Mentora occupies three floors on the same street, teaches twenty four courses across five fields, and still keeps the chairs small, the rooms quiet and the tuition published.

The bakery is still downstairs. Students still buy bread before class. Some things we have no plans to change.