People

Atnre Alleyne

Co-founder and CEO, TeenSHARP

Founder, The Proximity Project

Atnre Alleyne is the co-founder and CEO of TeenSHARP, an organization that prepares students of color for top colleges and leadership. Atnre previously founded and led an education advocacy organization — DelawareCAN: The Delaware Campaign for Achievement...

Stacey Childress

Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company

Former CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund

Stacey Childress is a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company and is the former CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, a national venture philanthropy. NewSchools finds, funds, and supports teams of educators and entrepreneurs who are reimagining education so that...

David Coleman

CEO, The College Board

David Coleman became the ninth president of the College Board – the nonprofit education membership organization – in October 2012. Prior to joining the College Board, Coleman was CEO of Student Achievement Partners, the nonprofit he co-founded and which...

Chris Gabrieli

CEO and Co-Founder, Empower Schools

Chairman, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education

Co-Founder, Transforming Education

Chris Gabrieli is the CEO of Empower Schools, Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. He has been at the forefront of several movements to expand educational opportunity and...

Peter Gorman

Former Superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

President and CEO, Peter Gorman Leadership Associates, LLC

Dr. Peter Gorman brings more than 30 years of experience in education to his role as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Peter Gorman Leadership Associates. He also served as the Managing Director of Academies for Atlantic Research Partners...

Aimee Rogstad Guidera

Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia

Founder, Former President & CEO, Data Quality Campaign

Aimee Rogstad Guidera was named Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia by Governor Glenn Youngkin in December 2021. Prior to holding this Cabinet position, she was the former President and CEO of the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) - a...

Aleesia Johnson

Superintendent, Indiananapolis Public Schools

Aleesia Johnson has been an educator for over two decades. She was named superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in June 2019 and is the first African American woman to serve in this capacity. In this role, Aleesia oversees the strategic...

John B. King, Jr.

Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY)

Former U.S. Secretary of Education

John B. King Jr. is the 15th Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY), the largest comprehensive system of public higher education in the United States. King was formerly the president and CEO of The Education Trust, a national nonprofit...

Patricia Levesque

CEO, Foundation for Excellence in Education

Patricia Levesque is the CEO of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), a leading education policy organization founded by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Working in more than 30 states across the nation, ExcelinEd develops customized...

Jim Manzi

Founder and Managing Partner, Foundry.ai

Jim is founder and managing partner of Foundry.ai, an artificial intelligence technology studio. He was founder, CEO and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), which became the world’s largest cloud-based AI software company, and was sold to...

Ted Mitchell

President, American Council on Education

Former college president and top federal policymaker Ted Mitchell became president of the American Council on Education (ACE) on September 1, 2017. Mitchell brings a wide array of experience and accomplishments from across the higher education sector to...

Julia Rafal-Baer

CEO, Women Leading Ed and ILO Group

Dr. Rafal-Baer is the co-founder and CEO of ILO Group, a women-founded, leadership-focused education policy and strategy firm. She is also the founder and CEO of Women Leading Ed, a national network of women education leaders, and a co-founder and partner...