Kaleem Caire is the founder and CEO of One City Schools, the operator of two schools serving children ages 2 through elementary school, and a third school that will open in fall 2022 and eventually serve students grades 6 through 12. Prior to One City, Kaleem was CEO of the Urban League of Greater Madison (Wisconsin) and chair of the National Urban League’s Education Committee. Prior to the Urban League, Kaleem held other executive leadership positions with Target Corporation, Fight For Children of Washington, DC, Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), American Education Reform Council, Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth (WCATY) and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. In 2008, Kaleem was among the first recipients of the University of Wisconsin’s Forward Under Forty Award and in the same year, was named a Distinguished Alumni by the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association for his work in education and community development. He was also the youngest recipient of the City of Madison’s (WI) Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award in 2001 and the Urban League of Greater Madison’s Whitney Young Jr. Award (2001). Kaleem’s life commitments are to create opportunities in places where people need them the most, to move people from poverty to prosperity and to raise strong and caring children in his own home. His work in education has been chronicled in news articles, research papers and books. Kaleem is married with five children ages 14 to 26 and holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a Pahara-Aspen Institute Fellow.