GFE Annual Conference Speakers 

Calvin O. Butts, Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church (bio)  

Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School (bio)

Eleanor Clift, Contributing Editor, Newsweek (bio)

Pedro Noguera, Professor, Steinhardt School of Education at New York University (bio)

Richard Rothstein, Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute (bio)

David Whitman, Freelance Journalist and Former Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report (bio)  

Richard Baron, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, McCormack Baron Salazar (bio)

Anthony Berkley, Deputy Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation (bio)

Christine Doby, Program Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (bio)

Salin Geevarghese,  Senior Associate for Neighborhood Development, The Annie E. Casey Foundation (bio)

Kavitha Mediratta, Principal Associate, Annenberg Institute for School Reform (bio)

Sandra Moore, President, Urban Strategies (bio)

Karen Nicodemus, Cochise College (bio)

Tammi J. Oyadomari-Chun, Executive Director, Hawai'i P-20 Partnership for Education (bio)

John Rogers, Co-director, Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access  (bio)

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Tonya Allen, Vice President, Program, The Skillman Foundation

Robert Baird, Vice Presdient School-University Partnerships, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship 

Elaine Baker, Principal Investigator, Colorado Lumina Initiative for Performance

Robert Balfanz, Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools 

Michael Bangser, Consultant, 

Richard Berlin, Executive Director, Harlem RBI

Jacqueline Berrien, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Martin Blank, Staff Director, Coalition for Community Schools, Institute for Educational Leadership

James Bower, Chief Visionary Officer, Numedeon Inc.

Phil Buchanan, President, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Pamela Burdman, Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Jolanda Burton, Student, Norfolk State University

Michele Cahill, Vice President, National Programs, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Blouke Carus, Chairman, Hegeler Institute

Michael Casserly, Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools

Rosanna Castro, College Advising Corps Program Coordinator, Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University

Ronald Chaluisan, Vice President, Programs, New Visions for Public Schools

An-Me Chung, Program Officer, C.S. Mott Foundation

Julia Coffman, Evaluation Consultant

Brianno Coller, Assciate professor, Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University

Christopher Connell, Principal, CC Editorial Services

Mark Conrad, School Designer, Expeditionary Learning Schools

Irene Cooper-Basch, Executive Officer, Victoria Foundation

Todd Cox, Program Officer, Racial Justice and Minority Rights, The Ford Foundation

JoAnn Crandall, Professor, University of Maryland

Gretchen Crosby-Sims, Program Manager, Education, Director of Strategic Initiatives, The Joyce Foundation

Timothy Daly, President, The New Teacher Project

Caroline Davies, Associate Professor of Geosciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Nancy Devine, Director of Communities, The Wallace Foundation

Barbara Dexter, Secondary Teacher Specialist, Child in Transition/Homeless program, Anchorage School District

Barbara Duffield, Policy Director, National Association for the Education of Homeless Children & Youth

Nathan Duran, Student, University of San Francisco

Naomi Caren Fairbanks, Student, Northern Kentucky University

Ronald Fairchild, Executive Director, National Center for Summer Learning, John Hopkins University

David Ferrero, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

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Susan Gallo, Deputy Director, Mayor's Office for Education and Children

Theodore Gershon, Assistant Vice President, Columbia University

Melinda Green, Consultant 

Jean Grossman, Senior Vice President for Research, Public/Private Ventures

Janice Gruendel, Senior Policy Advisor for Children & Youth, Office of Connecticut Govenor

Lara Hall, Senior Program Officer, Blaustein Philanthropic Group

Khalilah Harris, Executive Director, Baltimore Freedom Academy Foundation

Wade Henderson, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Donald Hense, Chairman and CEO, Friendship Public Charter School

Paul Herdman, President and CEO, Rodel Foundation of Delaware

James Honan, Senior Lecturer in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Lynn Huntley, President, Southern Education Foundation

Audrey Hutchinson, Program Director, National League of Cities

John Jackson, President and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Treyvon Jackson, Student, Lafayette College

T'airra Johnson, Early Childhood Teacher, YWCA Early Learning Center 

Kristie Kauerz, Consultant

Diane Jass Ketelhut, Assistant Professor of Science Education, Temple University

K. Randy Kurfis, Student, University of Colorado-Denver

Daniel Leeds, Co-Chair, The Enfranchisement Foundation

Michael Lind, Whitehead Senior Fellow, The New America Foundation 

Michelle Lucey-Roper, Director of Learning Technologies Program, Federation of American Scientists

Kristen McDonald, Senior Program Officer, The Skillman Foundation

James Mejia, CEO, Denver Preschool Program

Diane Miller, Vice President for Community Programs, St. Louis Science Center

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Jenny Nagaoka, Project Director, Consortium on Chicago School Research

Diego Navarro, Director, Digital Bridge Academy, Cabrillo College

David Nee, Executive Director, William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund

Judy Nee, President and CEO, National AfterSchool Association

Lisa Nutter, President, Philadelphia Academies, Inc.

Ron Ottinger, Executive Director, Noyce Foundation

Raymund Paredes, Commissioner, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Earl Martin Phalen, Co-Founder and CEO, Building Educated Leaders for Life

john powell, Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity

Margo Quiriconi, Director of Research & Policy-Education, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Diane Ravitch, Co-Chair of Common Core and Research Professor of Education, New York University

Barbara Reisman, Executive Director, Schumann Fund for New Jersey

Jennifer Rinehart, Vice-President of Policy and Research, Afterschool Alliance

Lisa Roy, Senior Early Childhood/School Readiness National Policy Analyst, Center for the Study of Social Policy

Roger Sampson, President, Education Commission of the States

Stefanie Sanford, Deputy Advocacy Director, National Initiatives, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Joe Scantlebury, Senior Policy Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Eric Schwarz, President and CEO, Citizen Schools

Sharif Shakrani, Director, Education Policy Center

Klare Shaw, Senior Advisor for Education, Arts & Culture, Barr Foundation

Tiffany Smith, Student, Waycross College

Mary Kay Sommers, Past President, National Association of Elementary School Principals

Rhonnel Sotelo, Vice President for Program & Operations, Stuart Foundation

LaVerne Srinivasan, President, New Leaders for New Schools

Maryann Stimmer, Science Program Manager, The After-School Corporation

Christine Sturgis, President, MetisNet

Steve Suitts, Vice President, Southern Education Foundation

Elizabeth Sullivan, President, Education Voters Institute

Jane Sundius, Director of Education and Youth Development Program, Open Society Institute-Baltimore

Robert Tai, Associate professor of Science Education, University of Virginia

Jeff Thielman, Vice President of New Initiatives, Cristo Rey Network

Iris Totten, Assistant Professor of Geology, Kansas State University

Carmita Vaughan, Chief of Staff, Office of High Schools and High School Programs for Chicago Public Schools

Lori Villarosa, Executive Director, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity

Lisa Villarreal, Education Program Officer, The San Francisco Foundation,

Phoenix Wang, Program Advisor, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

Laura Weeldreyer, Executive Director of Office of New Initiatives, Baltimore City Public School System

Victoria Wegener, Senior Consultant, The Finance Project

Susan Weiss, Director of Child Welfare Policy, Casey Family Programs

Joshua Wyner, Executive Vice President, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation