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"

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Trish Millines Dziko

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

Bill de la Cruz

Inclusion & Belonging Facilitator; DEI Thought Leader

Kira Banks

Psychologist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant

Liz Kleinrock

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

Dr. Sharroky Hollie

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Patty Wright and Kate DiMeo

Literacy Consultants & Coaches; Units of Study Staff Developers

Doug Lemov

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

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

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

Terry Doyle

CEO of Learner Centered Teaching Consultants, Professor & Author

Estela Mara Bensimon

Professor & Co-director, Center for Urban Education at University of Southern California

Bill Ayers

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

Kandice Sumner

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

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner

Cathy Seeley

Former Senior Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics Teacher & Author

Chase Mielke

Award-Winning Educator & Blogger; Creator of a Positive Psychology Program Teaching Topics like Optimism, Grit, & Accomplishment to At-Risk Students

Lisa Delpit

Educationalist, Author, Eminent Scholar & Former Executive Director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Florida International University

Dedra Stafford

Education Author, Speaker, & Coach, "Queen of Practical Classroom Strategies"

Jesse Corburn

Founding Principal at Uncommon Charter High School 2

Jeff Zoul

Co-Founder at What Great Educators Do Differently

Matt Miller

Author, Blogger & Education Speaker

Crystal Belle

Educator, Poet & Activist

Ron Ritchhart

Senior Researcher at Harvard's Project Zero, Educator, Author