Dr. Michele Campbell Alumni Profile

Alumni Leadership Award

Executive Director, The LeBron James Family Foundation, COO, LRMR Management Company

Michele Campbell has spent many years pursuing her passion in the education sector since earning her Master’s degree from Kent State University’s Higher Education Administration. As the executive director of the LeBron James Family Foundation, Campbell brings LeBron’s vision to create positive and lasting change in his hometown to life through daily and long term interventions. Under Campbell’s direction, in 2011 the LeBron James Family Foundation began working on the high school dropout crisis facing the Akron community and launched its core I PROMISE program in partnership with Akron Public Schools.

Campbell’s guidance has helped grow this thoughtful, strategic and family-focused movement that has culminated in the opening of the I PROMISE School, a groundbreaking public school that takes an innovative approach to educating the whole child and their entire family, the I PROMISE Village that serves as transitional housing for students struggling with homelessness, the upcoming I PROMISE Housing, which will be 50 units of affordable housing, and House Three Thirty, an innovative center focused on providing job training, financial health, and family programming for the entire community. Under LeBron’s guidance, Campbell and the Foundation are redefining what family and community looks like.