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"

Dena Simmons

Educator & Founder of LiberatED; Social & Emotional Learning Advocate

Marcia Chatelain

Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University & Author of "South SIde Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration"

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

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Gholdy Muhammad

Award-Winning Education Expert & Author of "Cultivating Genius"

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

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"

Kay Toliver

Teacher & Subject of PBS Special

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

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. Stacey Pearson-Wharton

Higher Education Administrator, Professional Speaker on Issues of Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion

Raven Baxter

Founder of STEMbassy, Science Communicator & Molecular Biologist Known as "Raven the Science Maven"

Terry Doyle

CEO of Learner Centered Teaching Consultants, Professor & Author

Mark Perna

Founder & CEO of Tools For Schools

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