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Leticia Guzman Ingram is a teacher and coordinator of the English Language Development (ELD) Program at Basalt High School. Named 2016 Colorado Teacher of the Year, she also received the Virginia French Allen Award for Excellence in Teaching and was honored as the Colorado Department of Education’s ELD Teacher of the Year by. Ingram has visited and studied the Finnish educ...
Liz Dozier is founder and managing director of Chicago Beyond, a privately funded organization that invests in and analyzes new, innovative ideas and scalable programs to address youth safety and educational attainment. A lifelong educator, Dozier has spent her career working to interrupt the culture of inequity that is often pervasive in urban education. She was principal...
Arturo Vargas is executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), a membership organization of Latino policymakers and their supporters, and of the NALEO Educational Fund, a national nonprofit that promotes the full participation of Latinos in civic life. He has held both positions since 1994. Vargas previously had various r...
Rob Stein is superintendent of the Roaring Fork School District. He has worked on the front lines of education reform for over 30 years, as a teacher, administrator, university professor, and educational consultant. Stein led a high-profile turnaround effort at Manual High School and has served as head of school at Graland Country Day School and executive director at Rocky...
Carrie Walton Penner is chair of the Walton Family Foundation board of directors. A K-12 education advocate, she has been active in education research, evaluation, advocacy, and philanthropy for more than 20 years. Penner is focused on improving access to high-quality schools for every child, particularly those in low-income communities. She has advised nonprofit organizat...
Joshua Wyner is founder and executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, where he also serves as a vice president. The program aims to advance higher education practices, policies, and leadership that significantly improve student outcomes. Wyner has spent the past two decades initiating organizations aimed at improving and equalizing educat...
Jeanette Betancourt is senior vice president for community and family engagementat Sesame Workshop, where she is responsible for initiatives that reach vulnerable children and families along with their caregivers, service providers, and educators. She is a licensed bilingual speech and language pathologist and educational therapist. Prior to joining Sesame Workshop in 1993...
Joseph Derrick Nelson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for the Study of Boys’ and
John Fallon is CEO of Pearson, since 2013. He had been responsible for the company’s education businesses outside North America and a member of the management committee since 2008. In 2003, he became CEO of Pearson’s educational publishing businesses for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He joined Pearson in 1997 as communications director and became president of Pearso...
Asiaha Butler is a community strategist and president of the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E.), which uses education, youth development, economic development, and civic empowerment to uplift, inspire, and change perceptions of her neighborhood. She chairs the Englewood Quality of Life Housing and Public Spaces Task Force, and R.A.G.E. is the lead organiz...
Emily Kingsley is a retired writer for “Sesame Street,” the PBS TV show and nonprofit educational organization. The parent of a son with Down syndrome, she and her husband were determined to give him the most enlightened education possible, at a time when individuals with Down syndrome were assumed to be ineducable — with great results. Kingsley started incorporating her s...
Sherrie Westin is President of global impact for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit media and educational organization behind the TV show “Sesame Street,” where she leads efforts to serve vulnerable children through mass media and targeted initiatives. Among other accomplishments, she spearheaded a partnership to bring early education to Syrian refugee children and championed...
Nate Bowling is in his eleventh year of teaching at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, WA. He teaches AP human geography and AP government and politics and blogs about teaching, matters of justice, and educational equity issues at natebowling.com. Bowling’s writing has been published in The Washington Post, New York Observer, Huffington Post, and Seattle Times. He is a co-foun...
Sarah Borgman is director and curator of the Skoll World Forum at Skoll Foundation, where she also oversees engagement of the Skoll community of social entrepreneurs throughout the year. With over 15 years of executive marketing, communications, and event experience, Borgman was previously vice president of communications at the X PRIZE Foundation, vice president of commun...
Evan Marwell is the CEO and founder of EducationSuperHighway, a data-driven organization working to close the digital divide in public school classrooms. Through collaboration with federal and state policymakers, service providers, and school districts, the K-12 digital divide is projected to be a thing of the past by the start of the 2020 school year. Previously, he launc...
Nancy Cantor is chancellor of Rutgers University in Newark. A social psychologist, she is a champion for inclusion and advocate for re-emphasizing the role universities play as anchor institutions in their communities, collaborating with cross-sector partners to fulfill higher education’s public mission as an engine of discovery, innovation, and social mobility. Cantor pre...
Brenda Moore is founder and executive director of Kids Educational Engagement Project (KEEP) in Liberia. During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, when public schools were closed and children lacked access to educational materials (there are no public libraries in Liberia), she began teaching her children at home, then supporting other children with free worksheets and educational p...
Bria Skonberg is a trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter. She tours festivals and stages all over the world with her band, played at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in her home province of British Columbia, and led the all-female Sisterhood of Swing Seven at Lincoln Center, among other performances. Skonberg’s 2016 album, Bria, won a Canadian Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Alb...
Lynda Resnick is vice chair and co-owner, along with her husband Stewart, of The Wonderful Company, whose brands include Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Almonds, Wonderful Halos, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, JUSTIN Wines, Landmark Wines, JNSQ Wines, and Teleflora. She runs worldwide marketing and product development for the company, which, under Resnick’s personal supervisio...
Ida Rademacher is a vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director of its Financial Security Program, where she and her team probe financial challenges facing US households and shape market and policy innovations to improve financial security. Previously, she was chief program officer at Prosperity Now (formerly CFED), where she created a team that led the Co...