Kinvolved

Miriam Altman, CEO, and Alexandra Meis, Chief Product Officer, co-founded Kinvolved in 2014.  Prior to co-founding Kinvolved, Miriam began her career as a New York City high school educator, initially placed through the Teach For America program. From her first day teaching, she immediately realized the tremendous impact that attendance, and absenteeism, had on her students. She helped launch her school’s first Attendance Team, a group of faculty charged with implementing strategies to increase school wide attendance. She found that the most successful intervention was to ensure that families were informed of and involved in attendance conversations.  These insights and her credibility in the field have served her well as she has led the company’s efforts to double revenues and impact each year since 2014.  In 2017, for the first time, Kinvolved launched in several communities outside of New York City.

Kinvolved has been featured in press, including the New York Times, and has won awards from The Robin Hood Foundation, Teach For America, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and more. Miriam and her co-founder, Alexandra Meis, are winners of the Gratitude Award, Forbes 30 Under 30, and the Jo Ivey Boufford Award for Innovative Solutions to Public Service Challenges by New York University.

Miriam holds an MPA from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, an MA, Ed., from Lehman College, and earned her BA, Honors, from Brown University.