People

Michael W. Kirst is Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration at Stanford University. Kirst served as President of the California State Board of Education from 2011 through 2019. Previously, he was a member of the California State Board of Education (1975–1982) and its president from 1977 to 1981. Read more > 

Jeannie Oakes is Presidential Professor Emeritus in Educational Equity at UCLA. She focuses her time with LPI on projects related to community schools, deeper learning, teacher preparation, and resource equity. She plays a leadership role in both the resource equity work, as well as LPI’s work with the Partnership for the Future of Learning. Read more >

Susan Sandler is a Trustee of the Sandler Foundation and leads funding related to education policy and other areas. Read more >

Linda Darling-Hammond is President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. She is author or editor of a number of award-winning books and more than 500 publications on education policy and practice. Her work focuses on achieving equitable and empowering education for all children through a focus on meaningful learning, educator quality, and adequate resources. Read more >

Barbara Chow is the director of the Education program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Read more >

Kris D. Gutiérrez is Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education. Read more >

Gerry House is former president of the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA), a division of Educational Testing Services (ETS), and Senior Vice President at ETS. Read more >

Sherrilyn Ifill is the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Read more >

David Lyon is Founding President Emeritus of the Public Policy Institute of California. Read more >

David Rattray is the President & CEO, UNITE-LA. Read more >