Paul E. Peterson

Editor-in-Chief of Education Next, Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance & Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University

Terry M. Moe

Senior Fellow Member of the K–12 Education Task Force

Carol Geary Schneider

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

James Heckman

Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago, a Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economics, and an Expert in the Economics of Human Development

Chester Finn

Chester E. Finn, Jr., scholar, educator and public servant, has devoted most of his career to improving education in the United States.

Bill Ayers

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

Po-Shen Loh

Founder of Expii & National Math Olympiad Team Coach

Richard Rothstein

Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Cynthia Montgomery

Timken Professor of Business Administration & Director of Research at Harvard Business School

Arie Kapteyn

Professor of Economics & Executive Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

Asmaa Al-Fadala

Director of Research & Content Development at World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE)

Susan E. Craig

Trauma-Sensitive Educational Reform Advocate & Educator

Marcia Chatelain

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

Raymund Paredes

Former Commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Foundation

Sir Anthony Seldon

Vice-Chancellor of The University of Buckingham

Eve Ewing

Sociologist of Education & Assistant Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago

Maya Roth

Assistant Superintendent for Uncommon Schools

Hernandez Stroud

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University

Estela Mara Bensimon

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

Walter Hood

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

Penny Chisholm

Award-Winning Oceanographer & Professor, MIT

Professor Penny Chisholm on Earth Week

Dr. Sharroky Hollie

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Dan Porterfield

President & CEO of the Aspen Institute; Advocate for Expanding Educational Opportunity & Improving the Human Condition

Dan Porterfield - Heart of Giving Podcast

Liz Dozier

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

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Victor Rios

Educator, Author, & Creator of Project GRIT

James Stigler

Professor of Psychology at UCLA, Co-Author of "The Teaching Gap" and "The Learning Gap"

Vanessa Siddle Walker

Emory University Professor of African American Educational Studies, Author of "The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools"

Geeta Menon

Business Professor at NYU, Former Dean of NYU

Richard Ruback

Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard