GUESTS

Beverly Hope
Bev Hope, MBA, has led global innovation and growth initiatives across Fortune 500 companies for over 30 years. She has deep experience…

Curtis Valentine
Curtis Valentine is Co-Director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Reinventing America’s Schools Project. Curtis comes to this position with over 15 years experience in local, state, federal, and…

Dr Renae Bryant
My philosophy of education is it must be student centered. Student needs are the essential priority. Education must provide…

Dr. Adam Clark
Dr. Adam Clark joined the Mt. Diablo Unified School District in Concord, California as Superintendent in July 2020. He believes that educational systems need to…

Dr. Alex Marrero
Dr. Alex Marrero leads with a vision of supporting students the way educators supported him growing up and into his career. As the child of a Cuban refugee and an immigrant from the Dominican Republic…

Dr. Barbara Mullen
Assistant Superintendent for Student Services at Cambridge Public School Dr. Barbara Mullen currently serves as the Assistant Superintendent for Student Services at Cambridge Public School.

Dr. Baron Davis
Dr. Baron Davis is currently the Senior Advisor for Digital Promise. As the former superintendent of Richland School District Two in Columbia, SC, where he served as the…

Dr. Bill Daggett
Bill Daggett, Ed.D., is the founder of both the Successful Practices Network and the International Center for Leadership in Education. He is recognized…

Dr. Christina Kishimoto
Dr. Christina M. Kishimoto is the founder of Voice4Equity LLC and a Clinical Professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. A native of the South Bronx in New York City, she is…

Dr. Darryl Henson
Dr. Darryl J. Henson, a native of Houston, currently serves as the Superintendent of Schools for the Marlin Independent School District, a rural district…

Dr. Dawn DuBose
Dr. Dawn DuBose currently serves as the Chief of Schools for Stafford Municipal School District and as an Adjunct Professor. Most recently she served as the…

Dr. Devon Horton
Since 2020 Dr. Devon Horton has served as the proud Superintendent of Evanston/Skokie School District 65, a pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school district just north of the City of Chicago. Dr. Horton is a native Chicagoan who…

Dr. Gustavo Balderas
Dr. Balderas began his life as the child of migrant farm workers in Eastern Oregon and developed his love of learning and passion for education in Oregon Public Schools, from kindergarten…

Dr. Jeff Dillon
Dr. Jeff Dillon serves as the Superintendent for the Wilder School District in Wilder Idaho. In 2013, Dr. Dillon initiated a technology plan, in partnership with the school board, to re-engineer teaching and learning in the high poverty, rural school district. The transformation began with a…

Dr. Jill Gildea
Dr. Jill Gildea is the Superintendent of Park City School District, Park City, Utah. Having been a classroom teacher, department leader, building principal, curriculum leader, assistant superintendent and…

Dr. Joe Sanfelippo
Dr. Joe Sanfelippo is the Superintendent of the Fall Creek School District in Fall Creek, WI. The Fall Creek School District was named an Innovative District in…

Dr. Kristopher Childs
As a teacher, professor, consultant, and member of senior leadership teams, Dr. Kristopher J. Childs focuses on excellence in teacher content and…

Dr. Luvelle Brown
Luvelle Brown is an experienced educator who has held positions as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, school CIO, and Superintendent of Schools. Currently, Dr. Brown is serving as…

Dr. Maria Armstrong
As an educator who started a second career in education, as a teacher of 11 years, counselor, AP, Principal and advanced through administrative positions as…

Dr. Melvin Brown
Dr. Melvin J. Brown was announced as the next superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools by a unanimous vote of the Montgomery County Board of Education (MCBOE) on April 8, 2022. He previously served as the…

Dr. Michael Lubelfeld
Michael Lubelfeld Ed.D. has served as a public school superintendent in Illinois since 2010. Prior to becoming a superintendent, he was an…

Dr. Ray Sanchez
Dr. Raymond Sanchez is the superintendent of the Tarrytown School District, a position he has held since 2013. Dr. Sanchez has been an…

Dr. Robert Zywicki
Dr. Zywicki served the New Jersey public schools for two decades in a variety of roles including two tours as PK-12 Superintendent of Schools in both urban and suburban school districts. Increasing graduation rates to over…

Dr. Rosa Perez-Isiah
Dr. Rosa Isiah has served students in her community for 29 years. Currently, she serves as Director of Elementary Education, Equity, and Access in NLMUSD. Dr. Isiah is passionate about…

Dr. Roxane Fuentes
As a public school educator for over 26 years, Dr. Roxane Fuentes has served as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, principal, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, and…

Dr. Shaun Nelms
Dr. Shaun Nelms is an author and prominent figure in the field of education and school transformation.
He is the Vice President for Community Partnerships at…

Dr. Shawna Dikins
Dr. Dinkins earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught ELD and English at the high school before…

Dr. Susan Enfield
Dr. Susan Enfield is currently the Superintendent for the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada. She came to WCSD from Highline Public Schools in Burien, WA where she served…

Dr. Tanisha Ranger
Dr. Tanisha M. Ranger is a clinical psychologist practicing in the Las Vegas Valley area. She is owner of Insight to Action LLC, a full-service psychology practice in the Las Vegas Valley area. She provides psychotherapy, clinical supervision, coaching, consultation, speaking, and…

Dr. Uyi Osunde
Dr. Uyi Osunde is the Superintendent of Schools in Stratford, Connecticut. Dr. Osunde believes that equity work is…

Erin Jones
Erin Jones has been involved in and around schools for the past 26 years. She has taught in a variety of environments, from…

Karla Phillips Krivickas
Karla served as the Senior Director of State Policy at KnowledgeWorks. In this role, she worked with states to build education systems that support student-centered learning. Before this…

Lynette White
Ms. Lynette White’s career in education spans 14 years and 3 school districts. She was recently appointed as the District & Community Relations Coordinator for Banning USD. Prior to that…

Patricia Trejo
Patricia Trejo earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a Minor in Mass Communications from The University of Florida. Her Master’s Degree is in Educational Leadership, and she is currently…

Richard A. Carranza
Richard A. Carranza is the Chief of Strategy and Global Development for IXL Learning and the founder and CEO of Carranza Educational Consulting, LLC. Having most recently…

Rosalba Rodriguez
Rosalba Rodriguez has been in education for 20 years. She started as an instructional assistant at the district she is currently a principal at. Rosalba started her career in administration as…

Thomas Murray
Tom serves as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready SchoolsⓇ, a Project of All4Ed, located in Washington, D.C. He has testified before the United States Congress and…

Tom Vander Ark
Tom Vander Ark is an advocate for innovations in learning. As CEO of Getting Smart, he advises schools, districts, networks, foundations and learning organizations on the path forward. A prolific writer and…

Tyrone Howard
Dr. Tyrone Howard is currently a Professor of Education in the School of Education at UCLA. In addition to this, he is the…

Zandra Jo Galvan
Zandra Jo Galvan has served as Superintendent of the Greenfield Union School District since August 10, 2017. Zandra has worked in public education since 1993…