Dr. Julia Rafal-Baer is a nationally recognized education leader, founder, and board member with a record of creating and scaling organizations that deliver results for students and strengthen leadership across the country. She is the co-founder and CEO...
Richard Lemons is the Executive Director of Partners for Educational Leadership and teaches in both the Yale Education Studies Program and the Broad Center's Master's in Public Education Management at the Yale School of Management. He earned his bachelor...
Dr. Vicki Phillips is President and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy where she leads NCEE’s work to help states, districts, and schools discover, design and deliver high performing education systems. At NCEE, Dr. Phillips guides a...
Meghan has been obsessed with fostering thriving school communities ever since her first teaching job 30 years ago. Her experiences starting, managing, and leading school systems led her to found LeveragED to connect leaders with each other and their...
The essential question animating Jeff’s career — whether in working with children, educators, or executives — has always been: how can we create learning experiences that are deep, powerful, and enduring?
In 2015, Jeff co-founded Transcend, together with...
Dr. Christina Grant is the Executive Director for the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University. Throughout her career as an educator, administrator, and executive in some of America’s largest school systems, Dr. Grant has worked to...
Dr. Susan Enfield is the former Superintendent for the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada. Prior to this, she served as Superintendent for Highline Public Schools in Burien, WA for ten years. During that time the district developed its Highline...
Dr. Lindsay Whorton is proud to be a founding member of The Holdsworth Center. She helped design the blueprint for the center’s programming and has served as president since 2019. She is the author of “A New School Leadership Architecture,” which calls...
Caitlin Sullivan is dedicated to supporting educators to hold high expectations and deliver meaningful support so that all students feel accepted, valued, and prepared for career and life. She is currently Co-Founder and Executive Director of Leading Now...
Dr. White is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers around issues of power, voice, diversity, and politics in education policy making spaces. She primarily employs mixed...