Standards Institute™
Previous Keynote Speakers

Dr. Julia Aguirre
Professor of Education, University of Washington Tacoma

Deborah Loewenberg Ball
William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education

Andrew Chen
President, EduTron

Kristen Ehlman
Interim Chief Program Officer, UnboundEd

Christopher Emdin
Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University

Frances Esparza
CEO & President, Educators for Excellence - "Kids Can't Wait"

Dr. Edward Fergus
Professor of Urban Education in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University – Newark

Crystal Gonzales
Executive Director, The English Learners Success Forum (ELSF)

Paul Gorski
Founder, EdChange

Emily Hanford
Senior Correspondent/Producer, American Public Media, Host of “Sold a Story” Podcast
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Jeff Howard
President, Efficacy Institute

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
National Book Award-winning Author and Director, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

Dr. Muhammad Khalifa
Professor of Educational Administration and Executive Director of Urban and Rural Initiatives, Ohio State University

Dr. Francesca A. López
Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State University

Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D.
Director of P-12 Practice, The Education Trust

Danny Bernard Martin, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Illinois Chicago

Dr. Jamaal Sharif Matthews
Associate Professor in Educational Studies & the Combined Program in Education & Psychology, Marsal Family School of Education, University of Michigan

Dr. Pedro Noguera
Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Rossier School of Education and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Southern California

Lacey Robinson
President and Chief Executive Officer, UnboundEd

Gyasi Ross
Attorney, Author, and Spoken Word Artist from the Blackfeet Reservation and the Suquamish Reservation

Dr. Farshid Safi
Associate Professor of K-12 Mathematics Education in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Central Florida

Sonja Santelises
CEO, Baltimore City Public Schools

Dr. Pamela Seda
Owner, Seda Educational Consulting

Tim Shanahan
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Robert Sheffield
President, CORE Learning

Dr. Clint Smith
Staff Writer, The Atlantic, Author of New York Times Bestseller, How the Word is Passed

Kandice Sumner Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Educators for AntiRacism

Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
President Emerita, Spelman College

Luis Versalles
Director of Pre K-12 District Partnerships at Pacific Education Group

Aída Walqui
Director, Teacher Professional Development Program, WestEd

Natalie Wexler
Author of “The Knowledge Gap”
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Barry White Jr.
The “Handshake Teacher,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Brandon White
Specialist, English Language Arts, UnboundEd

Tim Wise
Anti-racist Writer & Educator

Jeff Zwiers
Senior Researcher, Stanford Graduate School of Education