Speakers

  • Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
    Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education
    Teachers College and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
    Co-director, National Center for Children and Families
    Co-director, Columbia University Institute for Child and Family Policy
  • Amanda Bryans
    Director of the Educational Development and Partnership Division
    Office of Head Start
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Donnell Butler
    Post-Doctoral Fellow
    Educational Testing Service
  • Lupita Colmenero
    Founder and Chair of the Board
    Parents Step Ahead, Inc.
  • Diann Dawson
    Director, Office of Regional Operations
    Administration for Children and Families
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Carol Brunson Day
    President and CEO
    National Black Child Development Institute
  • Vivian Gadsden
    William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education
    Director, National Center on Fathers and Families
    Associate Director, National Center on Adult Literacy
    Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
  • Gene Garcia
    Vice President for Education Partnerships
    Arizona State University
  • Wade Henderson
    President and CEO
    The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • Anna Hinton
    Director of Parental Options and Information
    Office of Innovation and Improvement
    U.S. Department of Education
  • Jacqueline Jones
    Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Early Learning
    U.S. Department of Education
  • Joseph T. Jones, Jr.
    Founder, President, and CEO
    Center for Urban Families
  • Kurt Landgraf
    President and CEO
    Educational Testing Service
  • Ida Lawrence
    Senior Vice President, R&D
    Educational Testing Service
  • Walter MacDonald
    Executive Vice President and COO
    Educational Testing Service
  • Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana
    Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education
    U.S. Department of Education
  • Elba Montalvo
    Executive Director
    Committee for Hispanic Children and Families
  • Michael T. Nettles
    Senior Vice President and Edmund W. Gordon Chair
    Educational Testing Service
  • Piedad Robertson
    Chair, ETS Board of Trustees
  • Shannon Rudisill
    Associate Director, Child Care Bureau
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • David Sciarra
    Executive Director
    Education Law Center
  • John Tippeconnic
    Professor
    Arizona State University
  • Guadalupe Valdes
    Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education
    Stanford University
  • Robert G. Wood
    Associate Director of Research and Senior Economist
    Mathematica Policy Research