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

Robyn Jackson

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

Liz Dozier

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Walter Hood

Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at UC Berkeley

Judge Glenda Hatchett

Former Juvenile Court Judge & Star of "Judge Hatchett" and "The Verdict"

Trish Millines Dziko

Former Microsoft Programmer; Co-Founder & Executive Director of Technology Access Foundation

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Bill de la Cruz

Inclusion & Belonging Facilitator; DEI Thought Leader

Dr. Claudia Espinosa

Founder & Executive Director of L.O.V.E. Mentoring; Social Entrepreneur; Changemaker

Kira Banks

Psychologist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant

Liz Kleinrock

Founder of Teach and Transform; Anti-Bias & Anti-Racist Educator

Karen L. Mapp

Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Faculty Director of the Education Policy & Management Master's Program

Doug Lemov

Managing Director of Uncommon Schools & Author of "Teach Like a Champion"

Cynthia Germanotta

Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health

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Jennifer James

Cultural Anthropologist & Expert on Change

Stedman Graham

CEO of S. Graham & Associates, Leadership Development Expert & Author

Willard Daggett, Ed.D.

Founder & Chairman of the International Center for Leadership in Education

Lenora Billings-Harris

Multicultural Diversity Expert & Author; President & CEO of UbuntuGlobal

Bertice Berry

Sociologist, Author and Educator

Royel M. Johnson

Associate Professor of Education & Social Work and Co-Chair of the Rossier School of Education PhD Program at the University of Southern California

Melissa L. Cooper

Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark; Author of "Making Gullah" & African American History Expert

Nicole Jain

Education Policy Advisor, Children’s Book Author, Film Producer & Public Servant

David C. Banks

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

Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins

Educator, Writer, Activist & First Woman of Color Elected President of the League of Women Voters

Mark Perna

Founder & CEO of Tools For Schools

Bill Ayers

Professor & Education Theorist; Co-Founder & Radical Activist w/ the Weather Underground

Stacey Abrams

Political Leader, Voting Rights Activist & New York Times Bestselling Author

Dr. Tony Sinanis

Elementary Principal of Year, #HackingLeadership Author & Blogger

Kandice Sumner

Public School Educator & TED Speaker; Consultant on Race, Education, Gender and Equity

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