(Community Matters) Carla & Jack McDonald hosted an elegant and illuminating dinner & salon discussion last night for friends in honor of KIPP Schools, especially Jay Matthews, author of Work Hard, Be Nice and Kipp’s co-founder, Mike Feinberg. I had the pleasure of sitting next to Rocio Mendoza, a middle school KIPP grad from Houston’s southside who went on to Hotchkiss, Stanford for an undergraduate and is now at UT Law – while interning at KIPP, helping students transition to college.
I also enjoyed catching up with KIPP Austin founder, Jill Kolasinski and worldclass triathlete, author & Austin firefighter Rip Esselstyn (in Michael photo).
I met Jill, through Joe Christie, 12 – 15 years ago when she first started talking about KIPP. Good gosh, Rip was in the “Timberline club” of triathletes 15 years ago.
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