GFE Annual Conference Speakers 

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

Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School (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)

Cris 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)

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 

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

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, The Joyce Foundation

Timothy Daly, President, The New Teacher Project

Caroline Davies, Associate Professor, Geosciences, Universit 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

Ronald Fairchild, Executive Director, Center for Summer Learning

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  

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

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

Kristie Kauerz, Early Childhood/P-3 Policy Director, Office of Liutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien

Dan Leeds, President, The Enfranchisement Foundation

Michael Lind, Whitehead Senior Fellow, The New America Foundation 

Kristen McDonald, Senior Program Officer, The Skillman Foundation

James Mejia, CEO, Denver Preschool Program

Israel Mendoza, Director, Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Programs, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

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

Michael Molina, National Coordinator, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

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Jenny Nagaoka, Project Director, Postsecondary Transition Project at the 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 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, Research & Policy-Education, ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Diane Ravitch, Co-Chairman of Common Core and Research Professor of Education

Barbara Reisman, Executive Director, Schumann Fund for New Jersey

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

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

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

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

Rhonnel Sotelo, Vice President, 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

Beth Sullivan, President, Education Voters Institute

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

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

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

Iris Totten, Assistant Professor, Geology, Kansa 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, Office of New Initiatives, Baltimore City Public School System

Victoria Wegener, Senior Consultant, The Finance Project

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

Maya Wiley, Director, Center for Social Inclusion

Joshua Wyner, Executive Vice President, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation