Dr. Antonia Darder

Scholar, Artist, Poet, Activist & Public Intellectual

Yvette Campbell

President, CEO, The Harlem School of the Arts

Hannah Bricker

Inclusive Education Advocate, Program Director at The Rise School of Austin & Co-Founder of Teaching2gether

Rod Paige

Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Steve Chiger

Director of Literacy at Uncommon Schools; Author of "Love & Literacy"

Pandemic Classroom: Dispatches from Teachers

Carol Geary Schneider

Fellow, Lumina Foundation; Former President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Shadrack Frimpong

Founder of Cocoa360

Ricky Hurtado

Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education; Coexecutive Director, NC Scholars' Latinx Initiative

Jana Landon

HBCU Outreach Specialist at Google

Maria Gabriela Pacheco

Program director, TheDream.US

Shiza Shahid

Entrepreneur, Technologist, Investor, Impact Leader & Co-Founder of the Malala Fund and Our Place

Linda Darling-Hammond

CEO of Learning Policy Institute & Founder of the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education; Leader of President Obama’s Education Policy Transition Team

Juan Williams

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Fox News Political Analyst, Co-Host of "The Five" & Award-Winning Columnist

David C. Banks

President & CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation; Education Reformer & DEI Expert

Robyn Jackson

Founder of Mindsteps Inc.; Expert on Helping Educators Use the Tools They Have to Build Better Schools

Pedro Noguera

Professor of Education, Founder of the Center for the Transformation of Schools UCLA

Michelle Rhee

Founder of StudentsFirst & Education Reform Advocate; Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor

Jonathan Kozol

Educator & Social Justice Advocate

Bing Liu

Chicago Based Documentarian Best Known for "Minding the Gap"

Kelvin Bentley

Vice President of Learning Strategy at Six Red Marbles