Meet Your Speakers

Director of Early Learning and Education Pathways in the United States Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

National Manger for Education and School Food

Director of State Performance Assessment Initiatives, Learning Policy Institute

CEO, Education Leaders of Color

Founder, CEO, Firefly Worldwide, Inc., and Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University

Senior Advisor, Transcend and Founder, Career Playground

Filmmaker
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Education Consultant, State Education Resource Center and the CT Parent Information and Resource Center

Executive Director, NACA Inspired Schools Network

Founder and CEO, inquired

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, EdLoC, and Founder, Social Studies Accelerator

Filmmaker and Co-Producer,
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Educational Organizer Intern, Aliento

Executive Director, Campaign for Our Shared Future

Co-Founder and CEO, Reconstruction.US

Partner, Charter School Growth Fund

Co-Founder, Heritage Academy SC and BES Fellow

Enterprise Education Reporter, USA TODAY

Principal Consultant, Edgility Consulting

Senior Director of Education and Transformation, NACA Inspired Schools Network

Managing Director, NACA Inspired Schools Network

Founder and CEO, EdSolutions

Research Scholar, Child Trends

Member, National Assessment Governing Board

CEO and Owner, ECM Consulting

President, Education, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family

Founder & CEO, Aliento

Director of STEM Networking and Partnerships, WestEd

Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California

VP of Education & External Affairs, Aliento

Senior Director, LENS Leadership Development, BES 

Deputy Chancellor of Teaching and Learning for New York City Public Schools

Associate Partner, Edgility Consulting

President and CEO, UnboundEd

Chief Operating and Talent Officer, NASCA

CEO & Co-Founder, Zearn

Senior Director Grants & Compliance, After-School All Stars

Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education at the University of California, Los Angeles

Superintendent in Residence, Leading Now

Executive Coach, Wells Coaching and Consulting, and Senior VIce President, Pahara Institute

Executive Director, College Beyond

CEO, MindCatcher

Inaugural Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence at the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San José State University and Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside