Janice Lathen

Greater New York City Area United States

Founding Director, President at Powering Potential Inc.

In 1987 Janice Lathen started a computer consulting business in New York City specializing in training. In 2010 she gave it up to focus full-time on growing Powering Potential, an Educating-Through-Technology non-profit organization which serves rural schools in Tanzania. Into a family of pioneers, Janice was born in Winner, South Dakota, raised in Minnesota, and moved to Manhattan with college degree in hand and a passionate desire to be a classical stage actress. She acted for Woody Allen, Robert Downey and Zoe Caldwell, and along the way modeled for Halston, Christian Dior, and Karl Lagerfeld. As a teenager Janice was very active in Junior Achievement programs on the local, regional ...