Michelle Rhee

Ms. Rhee has spent her career in the field of education and workforce development in a number of executive roles. She currently serves as Venture Partner at EO Ventures, a VC focused on investments in companies driving social mobility and impact. Prior to that, she served as Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of BuildWithin, a workforce learning platform that transforms the way employers hire and develop new talent. The organization raised $2.5M in pre-seed funding, saw over $1M in first year operating revenues and won an $8M grant from the U.S. Department of Labor through theApprenticeships Building America grant program. Previously, she was the Chief Executive Officer of StudentsFirst, a nonprofit education advocacy organization that raised, introduced and passed over 140 pieces of new education legislation across 18 states. In 2007, Rhee became the city’s first schools Chancellor under Mayoral control of the 50,000 student Washington DC Public School district. In this role she oversaw 144 public schools comprised of 7,000 employees and an annual budget of approximately $1B. In 1997, Ms. Rhee founded the revenue generating nonprofit organization, The New Teacher Project, to help public school districts and state departments of education recruit, select and train teachers to serve in hard to staff schools. Ms. Rhee holds a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BS in Government from Cornell University.