Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...

Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is an international expert on the pharmacological and non-pharmacological...

After teaching in both public and private schools for a number of years, Dr. Ingersoll obtained a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. From 1995 to 2000 he was a faculty member in the Sociology...

Jesse Schell has taught Game Design and led research projects at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center since 2002. Jesse is also the CEO of Pennsylvania's largest video-game studio, Schell Games, and the former chairman of...

Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The mission of the Chair is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education.



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Hannele Niemi's experience at the University of Helsinki includes her roles as the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (2003–2009), the Dean of the Faculty of Education (2001–2003), the Head of the Department of Education...

Dana Mortenson is Co-Founder and Executive Director of World Savvy. She has dedicated her professional life to educating and engaging youth in community and world affairs, to close the global competence gap in American education. Her...

Dr. Sami Nassim is a social scientist who has conducted research on the retention and successes of minority and international students on college campuses. Dr. Nassim is the founding Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs...

Dr. Jackie Gerstein's byline is, "I don't do teaching for a living. I live teaching as my doing . . . and technology has amplified my passion for doing so." Gerstein has been teaching in-person and online for several decades. Currently...

Constance Steinkuehler is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and co-directs the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) center at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery and chairs their annual GLS...

Brittney Cooper is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is a Black feminist theorist who specializes in the study of Black women’s intellectual history, Hip Hop generation...

Juan M. Parada, is a technologist, media critic, web developer, consultant, digital strategist, DJ, business owner, and Associate Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.



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Jane Krauss is a teacher, author and consultant who does curriculum and program development designed to increase participation of girls and other underrepresented groups in computer science. She will gladly tell you why...

Ann Cook has been the co-director of Urban Academy since the school started in 1985, but she speaks proudly of her work as executive director of the New York Performance Standards Consortium. She says she is deeply involved with the...

Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He previously held faculty appointments at the University of the West Indies, his alma mater, and the London...

Allan is President of Canada’s non-profit Child Safety Research & Innovation Center and CEO of the video game developer Entertaining Knowledge Inc. He is also an expert in the field of child safety and street proofing of...

Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American...

Dr. Glenn Kleiman is the Executive Director of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and a Professor at the NC State University College of Education. A cognitive psychologist by background (Ph.D., Stanford, 1977), his work in...

Sylvia works in schools around the world to bring the power of authentic learning into classrooms, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects. Sylvia speaks, writes, and advocates for student-centered,...

Marty Linsky was Co-Founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA) and has been on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School for over 30 years. He is the author of over a dozen books and chapters, including Leveling the Playing Field,...

Troy Campbell is an expert in consumer behavior, marketing social psychology, political psychology, and scientific communication. At the University of Oregon, he is an assistant professor of marketing in the Lundquist College of...

Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for five straight years. He is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world's...

Professor Nock received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University (2003) and completed his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital and the New York University Child Study Center (2003). Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the...

Whether it is the rising sense of dread as a heart beats furiously and unexpectedly, the vivid memory of a painful event that occurred long ago but is not easily forgotten, or the sharp craving of a substance that seems so certain to...