Randi Weingarten

President of American Federation of Teachers

Madeline Levine

Educator & Author of The Price of Privilege

Michael Thompson

Child & Family Psychologist

Erika Christakis

Early Childhood Educator at Yale University & Author of "The Importance of Being Little"

Myung Sun Choi

Co-Founder, CompactCath; Graduate Student, Stanford Mechanical Engineering

Stacey Childress

CEO at NewSchools Venture Fund; Former Deputy Director, US Program, Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Vishakha N. Desai

Chair of the Board of Trustees of AFS Intercultural Programs

Melody Barnes

Executive Director Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA, Professor at the Miller Center & Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council

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Karl Wendt

Doctoral Student, Harvard University

Ted Mitchell

President of the American Council on Education, Former Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Rehema Ellis

Chief Education Correspondent at NBC News

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

James Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Lawrence Krauss

Theoretical Physicist, Author & Professor

Wendy Kopp

CEO of Teach For All & Founder of Teach For America; Childhood Education Advocate

Ellen Galinsky

Leading Authority on Work-Family Issues, Author, Creator of Mind in the Making Programs

Carol Adelman

Carol Adelman is a senior fellow and director of Hudson's Center for Science in Public Policy, specializing in international development, foreign aid, trade and global health.

Sandy Speicher

Education Lead, IDEO

Elizabeth Nabel

Cardiologist & Chief Strategy Officer at ModeX Therapeutics; Former President of Brigham Health & Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Darren Walker

President of the Ford Foundation; Chair of the US Alliance on Impact Investing

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Bill Gates

Co-Founder of Microsoft; Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Nicholas Burns

Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Margaret Spellings

President & CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center; Former President & CEO of Texas 2036 and the George W. Bush Presidential Center; Former U.S. Secretary of Education

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Dalia Mogahed

President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC; Author, "Who Speaks for Islam?"

Andrea Mitchell

Host of MSNBC’s "Andrea Mitchell Reports" & Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News

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Jonah Edelman

Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

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

Heather Staker

Senior Research Fellow on Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute, Child Education Specialist

Larry Rosenstock

Founder & CEO of High Tech High; Former Lecturer at the Harvard School of Education