Education Policy & Reform Speakers

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

Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project; Youth Empowerment & Education Advocate

High School Principal in North Philadelphia; Education & Leadership Development Expert

Co-Founder & Executive Director of UrbEd Inc., Advocate for Public Education & Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar

Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; Mental Health Advocate

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Clinician, Author, Education Advocate, and Mental Health Authority; President & CEO at Resiliency Inc.

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Author & CEO of Getting Smart

Founder & Former CEO at Wiring Growth, Facilitating a Growth Mindset

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

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Student Advocate, Education Reformer & Principal

Former Democratic Senator of California

Founder of StudentsFirst & Education Reform Advocate; Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor

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

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

Deputy Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary-General

CEO of Lumina Foundation; Advocate for Alternative Education Pathways

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