

About
Dr. Mike Feinberg is President and Co-Founder of Texas School Venture Fund (TXSVF) and Career For All, with the mission to increase the supply and diversity of great schools in communities where families want more options. Career For All has incubated several schools and organizations including Eastex Jensen Neighborhood School, Westchase Neighborhood School, WorkTexas adult trade school, WorkTexas Premier High School at Gallery Furniture, Neighborhood Preschools, Project Remix Ventures at Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, and the Shawn M. Hurwitz Fellowship for education leaders.
Prior to TXSVF, Mike co-founded and led KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program), a national network of over 270 public charter schools PreK – 12th grade that prepares students in underserved communities for success in college and life. Mike received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and a Masters of Education from National-Louis University in 2005. He received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Yale University in 2010 and from Duke University in 2015. Also in 2015, Mike was awarded the National Community Service Award from Spelman College. He is a member of the Society of Fellows of the University of Houston’s Honors College.
After graduating from Penn, Mike joined Teach For America and taught bilingual fifth grade in Houston, Texas. In 1994, he co-founded KIPP and established KIPP Academy Houston a year later. In 2000, he co-founded the KIPP Foundation to help take KIPP to scale. In 2004, Dr. Feinberg was named an Ashoka Fellow, awarded to leading social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions and the potential to change patterns across society.
In 2005, Mike was the commencement speaker for the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences. Also in 2005, he led the effort to start a public K-8 school in Houston for Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans. The school, NOW College Prep (New Orleans West), opened in 10 days. Mike’s efforts became the story told by Washington Post reporter, Jay Mathews, in his book “Work hard. Be nice.” Mike has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS 60 Minutes, and more. Mike is married to Colleen Dippel, and they have two children: Gus, age 19, and Abadit, age 14, who they adopted from Ethiopia in 2011. As such, Mike has become an avid high school football and AAU basketball fan.