Gene Carter
Emeritus Executive Director
ASCD
James Comer
Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center
Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine
Linda Darling-Hammond
Professor of Education Emerita, Stanford University School of Education
President and CEO, Learning Policy Institute
Marian Wright Edelman
President
Children’s Defense Fund
Daniel Goleman
Author of Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, et al.
Eileen Rockefeller Growald
Founder
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Michael Hartoonian
Scholar in Residence, Hamline University
Mary Hatwood-Futrell
Former President, National Education Association
Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Education and Human Development,
George Washington University
Jonathan Kozol
Author of Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, The Shame of the Nation,
Fire in the Ashes, et al.
Deborah Meier
Author of The Power of Their Ideas
Founding Principal, Mission Hill School and Central Park East School
Senior Scholar, New York University
Gabriella Morris
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, UNICEF USA
Sonia Nieto
Professor Emerita, School of Education,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Author of Affirming Diversity and Finding Joy in Teaching
Students of Diverse Backgrounds
Pedro Noguera
Professor of Education, University of California Los Angeles
Director, Center for the Transformation of Schools
Robert Peterkin
Director (Retired), Urban Superintendents Program and Professor Emeritus
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Dean and Professor, College of Medicine
Charles R. Drew University
Charles Slater
Professor, College of Education
California State University Long Beach
