Julie Mikuta
Partner
Julie Mikuta
Julie Mikuta is a Partner in the NewSchools Venture Fund West Coast office, where she focuses on the firm’s human capital investment strategy as well as management assistance for a variety of portfolio ventures. She serves on the board of directors of ConnectEd Partners, Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF), KIPP DC, New Teacher Center (NTC), Pacific Charter School Development, Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), and The New Teacher Project (TNTP).
Julie has long been committed to improving public education through entrepreneurial education efforts as well as through public service. Prior to joining NewSchools, Julie was Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at EdBuild. Previously, she led trainings for school board and superintendent-teams of large urban districts at the Center for Reform of School Systems, through an initiative supported by The Broad Foundation. Julie also served as an elected member of the D.C. Board of Education from 2001 until 2004. During her time on the school board, Julie also worked as Vice President of Alumni Affairs for Teach For America, where she developed programming for the organization's 10,000 alumni.
Julie chairs the board of Stand for Children. She also helped found Washington DC’s SEED Public Charter School, interned at the White House Domestic Policy Council, and served on the DC Public Charter School Board’s application review and monitoring teams. Julie began her career in education teaching high school science in New Orleans through Teach For America.
Julie completed her doctorate at Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar. She graduated from Georgetown University, where she was captain of the women’s basketball team. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Everett, and their daughter, Damiana.