Maro of the Minds: Kenzie Butera Davis with Jenny Fielding

In episode 113 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding, General Partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Kenzie Butera Davis, founder and CEO of Maro — a platform providing early intervention and risk detection for youth mental health in K-12 schools. Kenzie shares how a personal family experience pushed her from nonprofit and venture work into building the infrastructure schools were missing. She discusses how Maro challenges the entrenched belief that mental health has no place in the classroom, instead unifying universal screening, family communication, and care coordination into one system that identifies struggling students before they fall through the cracks.In this episode, you will hear:Deploying universal screening to close the gap between first symptom and treatment.Building school-based infrastructure to bridge families, health plans, and providers.Navigating parent consent and data privacy in K-12 health adoption.Leveraging state screening mandates as a distribution accelerant.Expanding from screening tool to full-stack school and health system network.Learn more about Kenzie Butera Davis | MaroLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenzie-butera-davisWebsite: https://www.meetmaro.com/Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfieldingWebsite: https://everywhere.vc/