Michelle Rhee Email & Phone Number

Investing in founders and innovations that accelerate economic mobility

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

In December of 2010 I founded StudentsFirst, a non-profit, grassroots organization that solely represents students in public education. Through the support and strong voices of our members across the country, we aim to bring balance to a system that has been skewed to serve adult special interests more than children's. We believe that by organizing the.

On June 12, 2007, Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed me to lead the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), a school district serving more than 47,000 students in 123 schools. Due to the work of thousands of educators, students, parents and central office employees, from 2007 - 2010 DCPS went from the worst performing school district in the country to the.

New York, New York, US

In 1997 I founded The New Teacher Project (TNTP) to bring more excellent teachers to classrooms across the country. With the help of a great team, TNTP soon became a national leader in understanding and developing innovative solutions to the challenges of new teacher hiring. We partnered with school districts, state education agencies, non-profit.

Baltimore, MD, US

As a third-grade Teach for America (TFA) corps member in Harlem Park Community School in Baltimore City, I learned a lot about teaching through trial and error, but after a tough first year, I decided that 8 year-olds were not going to run me out of town! I began with a candid conversation with the kids about where their skills were versus where they.

Masters, Public Policy

Ba, Government