People

Na'ilah Suad Nasir is the sixth President of the Spencer Foundation.

Sonia Nieto is Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture Emeritus at the School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Roy Pea is the David Jacks Professor of Learning Sciences and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Learning Sciences and Technology Design, and Co-founder and Director of H-STAR (Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute), a Stanford interdisciplinary research center focusing on people and technology.

James W. Pellegrino is Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Co-director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute.

Sean Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and a Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology at Stanford University, and he is the Director of Stanford’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Quantitative Education Policy Analysis.

Michael A. Rebell is the executive director of the Center for Educational Equity and Professor of Practice in Law and Educational Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Kimberly Jenkins Robinson is Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. Previously, she served in the General Counsel’s Office of the United States Department of Education, where she helped draft federal policy on issues of race, sex, and disability discrimination.

Jesse Rothstein is Professor of Public Policy and Economics and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard J. Shavelson is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Stanford University, a former Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and a past president of the American Educational Research Association.