Education

Maria-Theresa Servillon Sigua

Attorney & "Maria's Random Rants" Blogger

Praveen Vajpeyi

Vice President of Product Design

Penn Foster

Todd Litzsinger

Chairman, Acting President & CEO

Follett Corporation

Riley Scantlebury

Environmental Education Ranger II

Arizona State Parks & Trails

John Matsui

Assistant Dean of Biological Sciences & Director of Biology Scholars Program

University of California, Berkeley

Omowale Casselle

Director of Pritzker Tech Talent Labs

Discovery Partners Institute

J. Drew Lanham

Ecologist, Birder, & Professor of Wildlife Ecology

Clemson University

Laura Marmolejo

Associate Dean of Advanced Manufacturing Programs

Austin Community College

Pamela Cantor

Founder & Senior Science Advisor

Turnaround for Children

Amber Oliver

Managing Director

Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund

Bridgett Willey

Director of Allied Health Education and Career Pathways

UW Health

Angela Jackson

CEO

Future Forward Strategies

Meena Naik

Director, Skills First Design

Jobs for the Future (JFF)

Ching-Hua Wang

President

Samuel Merritt University

Dayna Baumeister

Co-founder & Partner

Biomimicry 3.8

Jimmy Lee Day II

Band and Orchestra Teacher

East Middle School

Abby Cox

First Lady

Utah Governor

Elva Pulido

Peer Support Counselor

The Family Support Center

Val Teichert

Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor

The Family Support Center

Terrence Cummings

Chief Opportunity Officer

Guild

Virginia Martinez

President of Operations

Technical Employment Training, Inc.

Priscilla Reyes

Fire Prevention Officer

San Bernardino County Fire

Marisa V. Yeager

Associate Vice President for Government & Community Relations

Cal State University San Bernardino

Michelle Toland

Programs Director

Cal-Earth

Serena Sacks-Mandel

Global Chief Technology/Transformation Officer for Education

Microsoft

Peter Taylor

President

ECMC Foundation

Michael Johnson

5th Year HVAC Instructor

UA Local 467

Erin Relford

Privacy Engineer

Google

Stephen Richmond II

Clinical Assistant Professor

Stanford Department of Medicine

Kara Krone

Additive Manufacturing Instructor

De Anza College

Sean Hill

CEO

Sierra Nevada Journeys

Erica Mosca

Assemblywoman

Nevada Assembly District 14

Jana Wilcox Lavin

CEO

Opportunity 180

DeSean Dyson

Director of U.S. Programming - ReStory US

Telos Group

Shakira Henderson

Dean, College of Nursing & UF Health System Chief Nurse Executive

University of Florida

Kamal Bell

Founder

Sankofa Farms

Luis Cortés Jr.

Founder & CEO

Esperanza

Gary Hill

VP of Campus Culture & Chief of Police

Lincoln University

James Kvaal

Under Secretary of Education, 2021–2025

U.S. Department of Education

Fernando Nascimento

Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies

Bowdoin College

Robert Kinzer

President

Literacy Institute for Financial Enrichment

Khadijah Ali-Coleman

Poet Laureate

Prince George’s County, Maryland

Lupi Quinteros-Grady

President & CEO

Latin American Youth Center

Stephanie Khurana

CEO

Axim Collaborative

Steve Taylor

Policy Director & Senior Fellow for Economic Mobility

Stand Together Trust

Monoswita Saha

Director of Social Impact

Kyndryl

Allison Matthews

Head of Minecraft Education

Microsoft

Emily Anthony

Senior Director of Education Initiatives

Salesforce

Patti Constantakis

Director of Corporate Philanthropy

Walmart.org

Naria Santa Lucia

General Manager, Skills for Social Impact

Microsoft Philanthropies

Kim Sullivan

Team Lead for General and Transplant Surgery & Perioperative Nurse

Mayo Clinic Florida

Bruce Hucko

Photographer/Art Coach

Mr. Animation

Street Performer

Lauren Birgenheier

Associate Professor, Geology & Geophysics

University of Utah

Tam Nguyen

President & Co-owner

Advance Beauty College

Ernest Melendrez

Job Specialist

Friends Outside LA

Melissa Michaels

Founder/Director of Educational Programming

Wild Life Productions

Robert Garcia

Mayor

City of Long Beach

Abelardo Morell

Photographer/Professor

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Julia Winter

Founder & CEO

Alchemie

Cecelia Schartiger

Cybersecurity

IBM

Eric Bing

CEO

The College of Health Care Professions

Ward Hessig

Skydive Instructor

Chicagoland Skydiving Center

Ivan Joseph

Author / Director of Athletics

Ryerson University

Janiece Evans-Page

Vice President of Fossil Global Giving / Head of Fossil Foundation

Fossil Group, Inc.

Isa Adney

Author & Speaker

"Community College Success: How to Finish with Friends, Scholarships, Internships, and the Career of Your Dreams"

Jackie Gamboa

Ph.D. Chemistry & Producer

The Big Electron Podcast

Joel Nitzberg

Director of Programs

New England Center for Arts & Technology (NECAT)

Christine Carswell

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Robin Conrad

Choreographer & Dance Lecturer

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Candace Benson

Interim Dean of Dental Programs

Wayne County Community College District

Elyse Rosenblum

Principal

Grads of Life

Richard Fletcher

Guide II Supervisor

Hearst Castle

Reyna Grande

Author

James Reeves

Designer, Writer, Teacher & Motorist

Civic Centre New Orleans

Leonard Schlesinger

Professor

Harvard Business School

Michael R. Cunningham

Chancellor & CEO

National University System

Sarah Love

Archaeology Outreach Coordinator

Georgia Department of Natural Resources

Gary Bolles

Chair for the Future Of Work

Singularity University

Jacqueline Sanderlin

School Principal

Foster Elementary School

Marilyn Halperin

Director of Education and Communication

Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

Rodney Mullen

Professional Skateboarder

Almost Skateboards

Robert Kiyosaki

Businessman / Educator

Rukiya Curvey Johnson

Executive Director of Rush Education and Career Hub

Rush University Medical Center

Artina McCain

Assistant Professor of Piano

Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis

Jason Kimberley

Founder & CEO

Cool Australia

Todd Rose

Co-founder & President

Populace

Catherine Drennan

Professor of Biology and Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E. Lockhart

Author

Leanne White

Director of Education

Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens

Andy Rosen

Chairman / CEO

Kaplan, Inc.

Chris Reilly

Workforce Development & Education Lead

Tesla

Michael Wilkes

Professor of Medicine and Global Health

University of California, Davis

Sarah Kolker

Project Manager & Artist

Mural Arts Philadelphia

Amber Dixon

Talent Acquisition Manager

OneAmerica

Carlos Rodriguez

Senior Community Organizer

Innovate Public Schools

Luis Sandoval

Executive Director

Building Skills Partnership

Frances Messano

CEO

NewSchools Venture Fund

Adam Lister

President & CEO

Tennesseans for Student Success

Alex Hepp

Chief Information Officer

City of Hopkins

Ken Barry

Club Director

Boys and Girls Club of Northwest Indiana

Vadim Polikov

CEO

Legends of Learning

José Antonio Tijerino

President & CEO

Hispanic Heritage Foundation

Stacey Childress

Deputy Director

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Leah Jewell

Managing Director, Career Development and Employability

Pearson

Blair Pircon

Co-Founder & CEO

The Graide Network

Melisa Hypolite

College Access Program Specialist

CollegeBound Foundation

Frank Cruz

Co-Founder

Telemundo

Luyen Chou

Chief Learning Officer

2U

Michael Hansen

CEO

Cengage Learning

Mialisa Bonta

Founder & CEO

LitLab

Jeremy Singer

President

College Board

John Fallon

CEO

Pearson

Shaka Mitchell

Director of State Strategy and Advocacy

American Federation for Children

Carole Redden

Chief Change Officer

Change Your Channel

Amanda Comage-Trower

Founder & CEO

Mental Heart Therapeutic Play

Angela Selden

CEO

American Public Education, Inc.

Omar Duron

Principal

Southwest Junior High School

Renae Lee

Program Coordinator, Emergence + TAP

The Mountain Center

Donetta Bracey

Senior FAST Trainer Supervisor & Institute Coach

Families & Schools Together

Aceriane Leal

Project Manager

Federation for Children with Special Needs

Gabriela Rios

Executive Director, Modesto Regional Office

Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE)

Bo Stjerne Thomsen

Chair of Learning through Play & Vice President

The LEGO Foundation

Leigh Ann DeLyser

Co-Founder & Executive Director

CSforALL

Kristina Ishmael

Deputy Director, Office of Ed Tech

U.S. Department of Education

Monica Goldson

CEO

Prince George’s County Public Schools

Kent Pekel

Superintendent

Rochester Public Schools

Amber Garrison Duncan

Executive Vice President

Competency-Based Education Network

Sunny Day Real Bird

Director of American Indian Outreach

Native American Achievement Center

Travis Allred

Early Learning Project Manager

Envision Utah

Yesenia Ramirez

Co-Founder & Senior Advisor

Parent Teacher Home Visits

Gina Martinez-Keddy

Executive Director

Parent Teacher Home Visits

Heaven Cherilus

Youth Leader

East Oakland Youth Development Center

Samantha Johnson

Teacher

Family and Child Empowerment Services (FACES Inc.)

Linette Steele

Lead Pre-K Teacher

Comanche Academy

T'erra Estes

Founder & Executive Director

Teach Not Punish

LeDuan Pratt

Principal

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Kathryn Procope

Executive Director

Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science

Marc Brackett

Founding Director

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Gwen Warniment

Director

Legislative Education Study Committee

Sharita Ware

Engineering and Technology Education Teacher

Tippecanoe School Corporation

Amber Grauer

Third Grade Teacher

West Broad Elementary

Rita Fennelly-Atkinson

Senior Director of Credentials

Digital Promise

Don Fraser Jr.

Senior Vice President of Design and Innovation

Education Design Lab

Ruth Ann Moss

Executive Director

Small Magic

Yigal Kerszenbaum

Managing Partner

JFFVentures

Russell Lowery-Hart

Chancellor

Austin Community College

Michele Leardo

Program Officer

Walton Family Foundation

Aneesh Sohoni

CEO

One Million Degrees

Angel Miles Nash

Program Officer

The Wallace Foundation

Simon Allen

President & CEO

McGraw Hill

Shiren Vijiasingam

Chief Product Officer

Instructure

Matthew Pittinsky

CEO

Parchment

Tarlin Ray

Senior Vice President, BigFuture

The College Board

Jean Eddy

President & CEO

American Student Assistance (ASA)

Jhone Ebert

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Nevada Department of Education

Ashley Andersen Zantop

Chairman & CEO

Cambium Learning Group

Jill S. Barkin

Director of Education

The Beacon Fund

Kermit Cook

CEO

Penn Foster Group

Lorna Bryant

Head of Career Solutions

Pearson

David C. Banks

Chancellor

New York City Public Schools

Jeanne Allen

Founder & CEO

The Center for Education Reform

Russlynn Ali

Co-Founder & CEO

XQ Institute

Daryl A. Graham

Senior Vice President, HBCU Initiative & Engagement

Strada Education Foundation

Keith Curry

President

Compton College

Shaun Harper

Founder & Executive Director

USC Race and Equity Center

Theron Wilson

Founding Managing Director

Per Scholas

Sal Khan

Founder & CEO

Khan Academy

Daniel Arias

Department Chair of Hospitality Management

Mission College

Kamilah Bywaters

President

Las Vegas Alliance of Black School Educators

Michael Maxwell

Principal

Maximized Education Consultants

Tammy Haddad

Educational Podcast Host

Cozy Rainbow Podcast

Arnold Ford

Assistant Principal

Mastery Charter School

Sunny Summers

Founding School Leader

New Harmony High School

Alex Owens

Co-Director

Be Loud Studios

Patton Furman

Superintendent & Principal

Magic City Acceptance Academy

Andrea Hall

Executive Director

EPIC Homeschool Network

Judy Jankowski

Head Of School

Chesapeake Bay Academy

David Heiber

Founder & CEO

Concentric Educational Solutions, Inc.

Wendy Kopp

Co-Founder & CEO

Teach For All

Alexis Rubin

Chief Operating Officer

Launch

Erin Stark

Partner, Learning Differences

NewSchools Venture Fund

Wil Del Pilar

Senior Vice President

EdTrust

Estrella Serrato

CEO

Cafecito con Estrellita

Brian Haynes

Vice Chancellor

University of California, Riverside

Mai Nguyen Do

Teaching Assistant

University of California, Riverside

Brad Baca

President

Western Colorado University

Ted Mitchell

President

American Council on Education

Nieves Aragon

Student Advocate

Young Invincibles

Lazaro Lopez

Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning

High School District 214

Cassandra Grube

Classroom Facilitator

The Last Mile

Marcus Anthony Hunter

Professor of Sociology and African American Studies

UCLA

Koffi C. Akakpo

President

Kentucky State University

Marques Dexter

Associate Director in the Office of Inclusive Excellence

University of Georgia

Katie Fang

Founder & CEO

SchooLinks

Andrea Ellis

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Whitney Soule

Vice Provost and Dean of Admissions

University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Navarro

Head of Network Success

XQ Institute

Sue Ellspermann

President

Ivy Tech Community College

Shana V. White

Director of CS Equity Initiatives

Kapor Foundation

Omar Abbosh

CEO

Pearson

Tim Knowles

President

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Jenny Kane

Program Lead, Career and Technical Education

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Jamie Merisotis

President & CEO

Lumina Foundation

Robert Crosby III

Director of K-12 Education

Valhalla Foundation

Bob Hughes

Director of K-12 Education

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Tracey Parrish

Senior Marketing Manager

AT&T Foundry

Rita Simó

Founder

People's Music School

George Kerscher

Secretary General

DAISY Consortium

Bart Eddy

Co-Founder

Detroit Community Schools

Warren Fried

Founder

Dyspraxia Foundation USA

Alejandra Ceja

Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics

US Dept of Education

Mike McGalliard

Executive Director

Imagination Foundation

Suzy Clark

Director

Mount Hermon Outdoor Science School

Stephanie Toman

Teacher

Kiker Elementary School

Sandy Husk

CEO

AVID

Cathryn Collins

Senior Account Manager

Pistol & Stamen

Elizabeth Clay Roy

Chief Strategy Officer

Phipps Neighborhoods, South Bronx Rising Together

Larry Colbert

Author/Speaker

Driving Vision, Inc.

Sut Jhally

Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation

Media Education Foundation

Joel Klein

Chancellor

New York City Schools

Mike Biggerstaff

Meteorology Professor

University of Oklahoma

Ken Eisner

Director of Worldwide Education Programs

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Karin Norington-Reaves

CEO

Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership

David Andrade

Solar Panel Training and Certification Program Coordinator

Homeboy Industries

Aimee Kennedy

VP of Education, Philanthropy, and STEM Learning

Battelle Memorial Institute

Walter Holmes

Yoga Instructor

Leilani Brown

Senior Vice President

K12

Gerald Chertavian

CEO

Year Up

Bonnie Kennedy

Chief Science Officer

Blue Marble Game Company

David Flink

Founder / CEO

Eye to Eye

Julianne Malveaux

President

Bennett College for Women

Erin Brown

Executive Director, Office of Children's Affairs

City of Denver

Ellen Galinsky

Chief Science Officer

Bezos Family Foundation

Jim Steyer

Education Technologist

Common Sense Media

Omoju Miller

Software Technologist

Google.Org & UC Berkeley

Julie Azuma

Founder/CEO

Different Roads To Learning

Huntington Lambert

Dean, Division of Continuing Education & University Extension

Harvard University

David Lopez

Executive Director

Teach For America

Sean McComb

Teacher

Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts

Jim Larimore

Chief Officer

ACT Center for Equity in Learning

Lisa Nielsen

Director of Digital Literacy and Citizenship

New York Department of Education

Mark Hannum

Neuroscience Lab Director

Thomas Jefferson School of Science and Technology

Jeffrey McDaniel

Lecturer

University of California, Riverside

Indira Phukan

Field Science Educator

NatureBridge

Thomas Nazario

Professor of Law

University of San Francisco

Sam Ross

Founder

Green Chimneys Children's School

Phillip Loya

Fellows Program Recruitment Manager

CODE2040

Robert Torres

Senior Program Officer

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dyane Smokorowski

Technology and Innovation Lead Teacher

USD 385 Andover Public Schools

Paul LeBlanc

President

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU)

Matthew Mugo Fields

Executive Vice President & General Manager of Supplemental and Intervention Solutions

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Shaun McAlmont

President of Career Readiness Education

K12

Charles Best

Founder

DonorsChoose.org

Cendy Vides

Operations Manager / Family Engagement Coordinator

College Track

Eloy Ortiz Oakley

Chancellor

The California Community Colleges

Robert Florio

Special Education Teacher

High Tech Early College

Lynn Phillips

Senior Lecturer/Chief Undergraduate Advisor

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Kary Mullis

Nobel Prize Winning Chemist

Arne Duncan

US Secretary of Education

US Dept of Education

Nolan Bushnell

CEO

BrainRush

Ron His Horse Is Thunder

Former President

Sitting Bull College

Bryan Brayboy

President’s Professor & Vice President of Social Advancement

Arizona State University

Omar Cardenas

Youth Organizer

Children's Defense Fund

Fram Virjee

President

California State University, Fullerton

Daniela Romero

ESL Coordinator

Nationalities Services Center

Lisa Legohn

Master Welder

Will Sampson

Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Services

Wayne County Community College District

Ben Brown

Security Intelligence Response Engineer II

Akamai Technologies

David Stovall

Associate Professor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Sarah Lyle

Senior Corps Member

City Year

Beverly Donofrio

Writer

Evelyn Polk Green

President

Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA)

Jill Biden

Former Second Lady of the United States of America

Joy King

Managing Director

Per Scholas

Plinio Ayala

CEO & President

Per Scholas

Stacey Cruise

CEO

American Paradigm Schools

Hasan McWhorter

Teacher

The Met Sacramento High School

Eric Waldo

Executive Director of Michelle Obama's Reach Higher Initiative

Civic Nation

Emilie Parham

School Psychologist

EMP Psychological Services, LLC

Allen Lee

Senior Public Programs & Education Manager

National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Tristan Love

Assistant Principal

Houston Independent School District

Katherine Kuchenbecker

Associate Professor

University of Pennsylvania

Evelynn M. Hammonds

Professor, History of Science, African and African American Studies

Harvard University

Nancy E. Turner

Author

"These Is My Words"

Christine Borelli

CEO

Memphis Street Academy Charter School

Zio Perez

Teacher

Nettelhorst School

Matt Severson

Founder

The School Fund

Joel Laguna

Teacher

Thomas Starr King Middle School

David Miyashiro

Superintendent

Cajon Valley Union School District

Joe Booth

Founder / Creative Director

Vidya Gamer

Carmen Garner

Art Teacher & Nonprofit Founder

Inner City Anglers

May Ng

Biology Teacher

Mark Keppel High School

Bianca Alvarado

Spanish Teacher / EdTech Consultant

High Tech High Chula Vista

Tray Robinson

Special Education Teacher

Stipe Elementary School

Cecily Myart-Cruz

President

United Teachers of Los Angeles

Trevor Boffone

Spanish Teacher

Bellaire High School

Rodney Robinson

Teacher

Virgie Binford Education Center

Ron Clark

Teacher & Founder

Ron Clark Academy

Patrick Weadon

Curator

NSA Cryptological Museum

Vera Ahiyya

Teacher

NYC Department of Education

Michelle Emerson

Fourth-Grade Teacher

Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Bryan Bassette

Assistant Principal

Elmhurst United Middle School

Lynette Stant

Third-Grade Teacher

Salt River Elementary School

Jes Ward

Executive Director

cityWILD

Jeremy England

Biophysicist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jessica Santana

Co-Founder

New York On Tech

Matt H. Schneps

Astrophysicist / Director

Harvard Laboratory for Visual Learning

Carl Wilkens

Director

World Outside My Shoes

Annie Pope

Information Assurance Specialist

Geoffrey Canada

Education Reform Activist

Harlem Children's Zone

Heejae Lim

Founder & Executive Director

TalkingPoints

Ahmad Itani

Foundation Professor & Associate Vice President for Research

University of Nevada, Reno Innevation Center

Karin Hilgersom

President

Truckee Meadows Community College

Ann Quiroz Gates

Professor & Chair, Computer Science Department

The University of Texas at El Paso

Rick Muma

President

Wichita State University

Alicia Thompson

Superintendent

Wichita Public Schools

Marsha Francis

Executive Director

STE(A)M Truck

Mark Murphy

Founder & CEO

GripTape

Katie Jenner

Indiana Secretary of Education

Indiana Department of Education

Iralys Lopez

Program Director

Springboard Collaborative

Lizbeth Brown

Navigator for Pediatric Partnerships

EdNavigator

Kachiside Madu

School Counselor

Elk Grove Unified School District

Vidya Sundaram

Co-founder & CEO

Family Engagement Lab

Jeff O'Field

Training Specialist

National Center for Families Learning

Susan Matheson

Solutions Engineer

Stride

Scott Kirkpatrick

CEO

BrainPOP

Judy Miner

Chancellor

Foothill-De Anza Community College District

Mark Daniel

Superintendent

Fort Wayne Community Schools

Charmaine Wardell

Work-Based Learning Coordinator

Indianapolis Public Schools

Jason Callahan

Assistant Secretary of Student Pathways and Opportunities

Indiana Department of Education

Emiliano Sanchez

Director of CTE Trades and Apprenticeships

Oakland Unified School District

José Medina

Director of Business and Community Engagement

Indiana Commission for Higher Education

Debra Smith

Superintendent

Fremont County School District

Hannah Jong Lee

Director, District Partnerships

Family Engagement Lab

Julia Gabor

Mindful Founder

kid-grit

Karen Sanchez-Griego

Superintendent

Cuba Independent School District

Todd Campbell

CEO

Backfield in Motion

Kenneth Gorham

Principal

Movement School

James Lane

CEO

PDK International

Mark Milliron

President & CEO

National University