#  Our Team - Steering Committee 

 



##  Our Team 

HGSE faculty spearhead the Initiative, supported by organizations that champion public school leaders across the United States.



 

 

 

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## Steering Committee

Steering Committee members help ISCL assess strategy and sequencing, partnerships and field positioning, and funding and operating approaches, serving as a bridge between the Initiative and the broader ecosystem of organizations advancing related work. The Steering Committee ensures that our work is responsive to real needs in the field, connected to complementary efforts, and positioned for practical impact.

The Steering Committee is composed of operating partners whose work is aligned with and instrumental to the success of the Initiative. It is not a governing board; rather, the Steering Committee functions as a working, field-facing collaborative, instantiating the Initiative’s aspiration to serve as a field-building entity.



 

  [### Susan Enfield

 ](/people/susan-enfield)Executive Director, University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL)

 

 

 

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   [### Kristine Gilmore

 ](/people/kristine-gilmore)Chief Leadership & Learning Officer, AASA, The School Superintendents Association

 

 

 

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   [### Christina Grant

 ](/people/christina-grant)Executive Director, The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University

 

 

 

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   [### Ray Hart

 ](/people/ray-hart)Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools

 

 

 

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   [### Richard Lemons

 ](/people/richard-lemons)Executive Director, Partners for Educational Leadership

 

 

 

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   [### Meghan Mackay

 ](/people/meghan-mackay)Executive Director, LeveragED Foundation

 

 

 

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   [### Vicki Phillips

 ](/people/vicki-phillips)President and CEO, National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE)

 

 

 

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   [### Julia Rafael-Baer

 ](/people/julia-rafael-baer)Co-Founder and CEO, ILO Group

 

 

 

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   [### Paul Reville

 ](/people/paul-reville)Founding Director, Education ReDesign Lab (HGSE)

 

 

 

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   [### Christian Rhodes

 ](/people/christian-rhodes)Chief National Impact Officer, Harlem Children's Zone

 

 

 

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   [### Robert Runcie

 ](/people/robert-runcie)CEO, Chiefs for Change

 

 

 

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   [### John Silvanus Wilson, Jr.

 ](/people/john-silvanus-wilson-jr)Executive Director, McGraw Center for Educational Leadership

 

 

 

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   [### Caitlin Sullivan

 ](/people/caitlin-sullivan)CEO and Co-Founder, Leading Now

 

 

 

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   [### Natasha Trivers

 ](/people/natasha-trivers)Executive Director, The Broad Center at the Yale School of Management

 

 

 

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   [### Jeff Wetzler

 ](/people/jeff-wetzler)Co-Founder, Transcend

 

 

 

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   [### Rachel White

 ](/people/rachel-white)Founder & Lead Researcher, The Superintendent Lab

 

 

 

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   [### Lindsay Whorton

 ](/people/lindsay-whorton)President, The Holdsworth Center

 

 

 

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