Kimberly-Neal-Brannum

Kimberly Neal-Brannum is the founder of BELIEVE Schools in Indianapolis, Indiana. Before founding BELIEVE Schools, she served as a Managing Director of Secondary Education for KIPP: DC, principal, and school social worker. Under her leadership, she successfully turned around KIPP: DC’s largest middle school, and founded Muchin College Prep, which remains the highest performing school in the Noble Network of Charter Schools and one of Chicago’s best schools. She holds an M.S.W. from Washington University, St. Louis, an M.Ed. from Teachers College–Columbia University, and is a graduate of Relay Graduate School of Education’s National Principal Supervisors Academy Fellowship.