Jake Weinfeld is a senior associate at FourPoint Education Partners. His work focuses around helping school districts, non-profits, and universities grow, strengthen and sustain their core work, develop and launch new programs, manage change, and more. Recently, Jake has worked to support Baltimore City Schools, Queen Anne’s County Public Schools, Mount St. Mary’s University, the National Summer Learning Association, and Let’s Get Ready (a national non-profit). He has worked to support clients around community schools strategy, partner engagement, out-of-school-time programming, college and career readiness, fundraising / sustainability, and STEM education.
Prior to working as a consultant, Jake worked as Executive Director of MERIT Health Leadership Academy, a non-profit that partners with Johns Hopkins Medicine to educate and empower high school students from underrepresented backgrounds to become health professionals and change agents. During his time with MERIT, Jake helped the program grow from 50 students to over 300, while the budget grew 1000% to over $1 million. Jake also has prior experience as a Science Teacher and Department Chair in Baltimore City Public Schools and as a Business Development Associate with Inktel Direct. He currently teaches as a Professor at Stevenson University as part of their Community-Based Education and Leadership Masters program.
In his spare time Jake teaches yoga, meditates daily, and is an avid reader on wellness practices, spirituality, and personal development.
Expertise
- College and career readiness pathways
- Out-of-school time programming
- Project management
Education
- MA in The Science of Education from Johns Hopkins University
- BA in Business Administration from The University of Miami
