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D<\/span>ante Disparte \u201900<\/strong> believes \u201cthat the most important thing people need to learn is to learn how to learn,\u201d a skill he said Goucher gave him.<\/p>\n

Dante earned his degree in international and intercultural studies and is the founder of Risk Cooperative, a specialized-strategy risk and insurance advisory firm in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

He was inspired to launch the company in what he called a \u201cclassic Jerry Maguire moment\u201d during his days running Clements Worldwide, a large international insurance brokerage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that every time we had an idea that required imagination, creativity, or had a clear social impact, such as insuring U.N. staff around the world, \u2018preserving status quo\u2019 won the day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He faced an internal struggle: simply be entrepreneurial, or actually be an entrepreneur and take risks of his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cRisk Cooperative was born out of this dilemma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four years after its inception, Risk Cooperative\u2014one of the few minority-owned firms of its kind\u2014is a pioneer in the risk and insurance industry. In 2017, it was named one of two Lloyd\u2019s coverholders in Washington, DC\u2014authorized companies able to design unique insurance programs in the 330-year-old Lloyd\u2019s insurance market.<\/p>\n

Dante said his goal was to \u201cbring imagination to an otherwise \u2018pale, stale, and male\u2019 industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Challenging the status quo wasn\u2019t exactly new to him\u2014he is the first person in his family to graduate college, or even high school. Still, he said, \u201cIt took a while for me to find my voice and begin appreciating risk-taking in our daily lives and how risk aversion blocks most things from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that insurance and mitigating downsides is not merely a cost of doing business, but can serve as a catalyst,\u201d he said, adding that Risk Cooperative strives to enable calculated risk-taking and help creative processes take root.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all things that we do, we try to frame our work around the \u2018upside\u2019 or the things that would not happen in the world, but for a fixed price and understanding of risk and uncertainty. In short, we want to promote risk-taking at scale. We want to get people and businesses off the sidelines and create a more resilient world.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while he embraces risk in his profession\u2014undauntedly (\u201cI couldn\u2019t help that word choice,\u201d he noted), Dante said he is \u201cironically somewhat risk averse in my personal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a child in Puerto Rico, he lived through Hurricane Hugo, which obliterated thousands of homes, destroyed crops, and caused more than $1 billion in damages in 1989, according to a 2107 Washington Post<\/em> article. He grew up, he said, with both personal and financial uncertainty.<\/p>\n

First at Goucher, and then in his work, Dante said he has nurtured an ability to \u201crun to places, projects, and ideas where others dare not tread,\u201d an attribute that began developing during his undergraduate years.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have the temerity to start a business and feel confident in our ability to make a difference in the world has been greatly aided by the same creative process that underpins a liberal arts education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He has also been undaunted in love.<\/p>\n

Dante is married to Amal Ponasik Disparte \u201900<\/strong>. They began dating during their senior year and married in 2003.<\/p>\n

They met in 1996, at a gathering in Dante\u2019s dorm room during their first week at Goucher. To say the least, it wasn\u2019t love at first sight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe disliked each other immediately,\u201d Amal recalled. \u201cI thought he was stuck-up and unpleasant, and he thought I was abrasive and rude.\u201d<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t speak again until senior year, when she returned from her study abroad, and they found themselves sharing most classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin months we had fallen for each other,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been inseparable since.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Singer, professor of political science and associate provost for external and experiential programs, who served as Amal\u2019s academic advisor, recalls the two interacting in his classroom, sitting on opposite sides of the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the interesting exchanges in the class ended up being repartee between them,\u201d he said, \u201cand it was humorous for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, the couple lives in Northeast DC with their 12-year-old daughter, Andalus, and two sons, Messina, 11, and Nero, 5.<\/p>\n

Of the origins of their romance, Dante\u2014wisely\u2014said only, \u201cWhat she said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amal, a social entrepreneur and community activist, is the co-founder of the GrantEd Foundation, a nonprofit organization that strives to help struggling educators in DC\u2019s underserved communities bypass the traditional lengthy grant process.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to provide teachers in the most vulnerable communities in DC a fast and easy way to get funding in less than 30 days using their smartphones,\u201d Amal said.<\/p>\n

The idea was born out of volunteer work at their children\u2019s school, which eventually led to establishing the well-known fundraiser Taste of H, and, in an effort to expand the sphere of aid to area schools, to the creation of GrantEd.<\/p>\n

Part of the inspiration, she said, came from Goucher, specifically the college\u2019s innovative spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I read all the articles about Goucher allowing students to apply via video,\u201d she said, \u201cI was so inspired that I called my partners and said, \u2018We could do this for teachers!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple works hard to demonstrate a spirit of empathy, gratitude, and openness to their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever we\u2019ve lived, our house is the center of our community. It\u2019s always filled with friends and family members from all over the world. It\u2019s where neighborhood parties and meetings happen, it\u2019s where people come to celebrate milestones or mourn losses,\u201d Amal said. \u201cWe make it a point to always have good food, good wine, and spare beds. Our children have grown up thinking of our neighbors as family members and expecting a house full of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

They both come from humble beginnings\u2014she grew up in Morocco and lived all over the world with her parents, who were in the diplomatic corps; he in Puerto Rico. Both are first-generation graduates and say much of the success they have achieved has been due to the kindness of others. And so they want to pay it forward.<\/p>\n

Their work is born out of the stories they hear, the people they\u2019ve met along their travels, or the struggles in the communities in which they\u2019ve lived.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that our kids are watching us very carefully,\u201d Dante said, \u201cand what they\u2019re seeing is their parents actively trying to make the world a better place than they found it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Singer said the work the Dispartes are doing \u201cembodies the Goucher ethos\u201d of intellect and passion, asking questions and exploring global issues that manifest themselves locally, like the struggles faced by public school teachers or developing insurance programs to protect diaspora populations. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful combination in young people to be both curious and smart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Singer, who says his interactions with the couple has been mostly limited to social media and the occasional run-in on campus, nonetheless speaks proudly of the growth he has seen manifest from what was cultivated at Goucher, not only their commitment to social justice within their community, but their continued friendships and relationships with Goucher friends, nearly two decades later. Of his former advisee\u2019s student days, Singer said:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was clear she wanted to be challenged on things she held fast. It was an opportunity for her to rethink as well as solidify some of the intellectual and political commitments she had adopted.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Goucher indeed sees Dante and Amal Disparte as credits to the school, they in return credit Goucher with helping them to become the people they are\u2014helping them learn how to form arguments, support their positions, and to not be limited by opinions, especially their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoucher\u2019s professors challenged me and stretched me,\u201d said Amal, \u201cbut they didn\u2019t do it by being condescending or breaking my spirit\u2014it was more like, \u2018OK, so you\u2019ve voiced that very strong opinion and I respect it, but now support it\u2014and don\u2019t use emotion, use logic and facts.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Even having gone on to postgraduate studies at Harvard Business School and NYU\u2019s Stern School of Business, Dante says, \u201cLiberal arts more generally, and Goucher especially, are the unsung heroes of thought and personal preparation for a world in flux.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Goucher, Dante and Amal learned and were encouraged to be a part of that world in flux, to participate, to be in the world and of the world, to be protagonists, to shake things up. They are reminded of it in their day-to-day life, in their community, and even in the motto of their children\u2019s school: \u201cWe are crew, not passengers.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dante and Amal Disparte, and their family, beat on, boats sometimes against the current, sometimes with, but rather than being \u201cborne back ceaselessly into the past,\u201d they propel themselves, and those around them, into the future\u2014undaunted.<\/p>\n

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