Alan Berube

Senior fellow and deputy director at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program

Caroline Hoxby

Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics & Expert on the Economics of Education

Maryanna Abdo

Social Innovator; Founding Member & Senior Manager at L.E.K. Consulting’s Global Education Practice

Georges Clement

Co-Founder of JustFix.nyc

Lois Dickson Rice

Economics Studies at Brookings

Joe Garcia

Lieutenant Governor of Colorado

Stephen Crawford

Research Professor at GWIPP

Jenny Perlman Robinson

Nonresident fellow with the Center for Universal Education

James Spillane

Professor In Learning & Organizational Change at Northwestern University

Jamie P. Merisotis

CEO of Lumina Foundation; Advocate for Alternative Education Pathways

Williamson Evers

K-12 Education Task Force for Hoover Institute, Named to Trump's Transition Team for Education

William Bainbridge

School Match ‚ Educational Policy ‚ Educator of the Year

Jacquelline Fuller

Director of Google.org, Supporting Education, Development, Disaster Relief and Clean Energy Through Charitable Giving

Margaret Spellings

President & CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center; Former President & CEO of Texas 2036 and the George W. Bush Presidential Center; Former U.S. Secretary of Education

#19thRepresents Keynote: Margaret Spellings

Rosemary Collins

Educator & Literacy Fellow at Delta Health Alliance

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution

Michael Javen Fortner

Academic Director for Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute (CUNY) & Author of "Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drugs and the Politics of Punishment"

Amber M. Winkler

research fellow.

Stavros Yiannouka

CEO of WISE

Ariel Fiszbein

Director of the Education Program, Inter-American Dialogue