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    Jim Shelton

    Chief Impact and Investment Officer, Blue Meridan Partners

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    Jim Shelton, is the Chief Impact and Investment Officer at Blue Meridian Partners, a philanthropic vehicle to identify and scale solutions to the problems trapping youth and their families in poverty. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to KKR and is a nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institute. Jim was the co-founder of Amandla Enterprises and the former Deputy Secretary of Education and founding Executive Director of My Brother’s Keeper under President Barack Obama.

    Jim also worked in business, government, and the non-profit sectors as an operator, investor, and entrepreneur. In these roles, he has utilized management, policy, and programmatic innovations to increase access to opportunity. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Morehouse College and Master’s degrees in both Business Administration and Education from Stanford University.

    He lives in his hometown - Washington, DC - with his wife and two sons.

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