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Kaleem Caire is the founder and chief executive officer of One City Schools, the operator of award winning independent preschools and public charter schools in Wisconsin. He is also the founder and president of One City Advocates, a 501c4 affiliate of One City Schools and founder and board member of the Wisconsin Independent Charter School Advocates (WICSA) organization. Prior to One City, Kaleem was the president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of Greater Madison in Madison, WI, 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 (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 18 to 32, and holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Fellow of the 21st class of the Pahara - Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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