Renuka Kher
Associate Partner
Renuka Kher
Renuka Kher is an Associate Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focuses on investment strategy, due diligence and management assistance for the firm's portfolio ventures on the West Coast.
Prior to joining NewSchools, Renuka was a Senior Program Officer at the Robin Hood Foundation, a venture philanthropy organization whose mission is to target poverty in New York City. Her work at Robin Hood included developing and implementing a strategy for one of the nation's largest relief funds created to respond to the attacks of September 11th. After concluding her work with the relief fund, Renuka shifted to managing more than $5 million in grants for Robin Hood's charter school initiative, including identifying new investments and conducting due diligence on individual charter schools and charter management organizations. She also had the unique opportunity to work with other philanthropic donors and the New York City Department of Education to help launch The New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, a new nonprofit organization charged with creating 50 new charter schools in five years.
Renuka began her career in the health care sector, serving as a health policy advisor to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS during the Clinton Administration. She received her bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Michigan, and completed her graduate work at Emory University, where she received a master's in public health from the Rollins School of Public Health. She is also an alumnus of the Coro Leadership Program.