Laura Sessions Stepp

Expert on Young People & Sexuality

Jonah Edelman

Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

Richard Dreyfuss

Academy Award-Winning Actor

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

Scott Poland

Internationally Recognized Expert on School Crisis

Angela Davis

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Laura Munson

New York Times Best-Selling Author

Bertice Berry

Sociologist, Author and Educator

Michelle Obama

Former First Lady of the United States & Bestselling Author

Kweisi Mfume

Political & Business Leader

LouAnne Johnson

Inspirational Teacher & Author

Goldie Hawn

Academy Award-Winning Actress & Founder of the Hawn Foundation

Liz Dozier

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

Michael A. Davis

Journalist / Author

Patrice Pujol

Superintendent, Ascension Parish Schools, Gonzales, Louisiana

Bruce Gill

Executive Director of Minds Incorporated

Augusta Mann

Augusta Mann is recognized for her workshops, demonstration lessons, and programs in culturally centered intensified accelerated teaching models in literacy for African American and other urban students.

Nancy Doda

Nancy Doda serves as an educational consultant for middle-level schools and organizations across the United States.

Dedra Stafford

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

H. Richard Milner

Author of "Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms", Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education

Wendy Murawski

Dr. Wendy Murawski is a tenured Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in Special Education at California State University, Northridge.

Richard D. Freedman

Distinguished Service Professor of Management Emeritus

Maya Roth

Assistant Superintendent for Uncommon Schools

Dr. Victoria Bernhardt

Victoria Bernhardt, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to build the capacity of learning organizations at all levels to gather, analyze, and use data to continuously improve learning for all students.

Jesse Corburn

Founding Principal at Uncommon Charter High School 2

Karen Lelli Austin

Karen Lelli Austin has served for the past nine years as an educational consultant on Differentiated Instruction Cadre and as a workshop consultant on differentiation since 1990.

Lonnie Moore

Lonnie Moore's experience as a classroom teacher, author, and speaker helps his clients find solutions that result in long-term change.

Nora Flanagan

Educator, Author & TED Speaker

Gary L. Gordon, Ed.D.

Author of Building Engaged Schools: Getting the Most out of America's Classrooms