People

Jal Mehta is a Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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 the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law as well as a Professor of Education and Public Policy at UVA. 

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.