Miami, FL – April 12, 2018 – KIPP, a national nonprofit network of public charter schools with a successful track record of educating elementary, middle, and high school students, hosted a kickoff event to celebrate its arrival and the opening of its first school in Miami. More than 100 of Miami’s sports, education and philanthropy leaders gathered at the exclusive Design District Garden Building’s rooftop to welcome KIPP bringing additional education options to South Florida’s children. KIPP Miami is the organization’s first new region to launch in the last eight years and will kick off with an elementary school, KIPP Sunrise Academy in Liberty City.

Shane & Heidi Battier

Kinga Lampert, Shane & Heidi Battier

Newell Fleming, Heidi Battier, Kinga Lampert, & Jon Batchelor

Newell Fleming, Heidi Battier, & Kinga Lampert

Heidi & Shane Battier, & Leslie Miller Saiontz

Heidi Battier & Newell Fleming

Alexis Kimber & Michael Williams

Vance Aloupis, Ryan Hill, & Dave Lawrence

Ben Cope, Shane Battier, Ryan Hill, & Dave Lawrence

Vance Aloupis, Michael Bileca, & Jeanette Rubio

Vance Aloupis & Ryan Hill

Shane & Heidi Battier

Chalianna Lopez

Laurie Jennings

Leyla Bravo-Willey & Ryan Hill

Tiffanie Pauline, Leyla Bravo-Willey, & Ryan Hill

 

T Willard Fair, Leyla Bravo-Willey, & Ryan Hill

T Willard Fair & Leyla Bravo-Willey

Hugh Stockton, Tshaka Ishmael, & Karen Diazgranados

John Ramirez, Noah Youngstrom, & Brian Weinblatt

Bill Diggs, T Willard Fair, & Nat Moore

Kiesha Moodie, Julie Harris, & Oltion Mollaymeri

Jeb Bush Jr & Monica Kress

Liz Fitzpatrick & Sallie Ball

Holly Briedis & Jeb Bush Jr

Mildred Otero & Jon Batchelor

Kinga Lampert & Leslie DeBauge

Rick Elliott, Gerry & Lorna Hoffman

Jeb Bush Jr & Nat Moore

Berta Blecke, Ruth Ramirez, Jim Blecke, & Jessi Tamayo

Juwan & Jenine Howard

Leyla Bravo-Willey & Laurie Jennings

Laurie Jennings & Ben Cope

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