Advancing the Legacy of Mendez and Brown: National Conference on School Diversity
Confirmed Government Representatives and Policymakers
Confirmed Speakers (Panelists and Workshop Leaders)
- Donna Bivens, Meghan Doran, and Jacqui Lindsay, Boston Busing/Desegregation Project
- Del Burns, Former Superintendent, Wake County Public Schools
- Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
- George Coleman, Consultant to the Connecticut Commissioner of Education, Connecticut State Department of Education
- Eric Cooper, President and Founder, National Urban Alliance
- Quyen Dinh, Education Policy Advocate, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
- Lisa Donlan, President, Community Education Council for Community School District 1 in NYC
- Bruce Douglas, Executive Director, Capitol Region Education Council
- Mary Filardo, Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund
- Willis Hawley, Director, Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Diverse Students Initiative
- Elizabeth Horton Sheff, Education Activist, Hartford, CT
- Jennifer Jellison Holme, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Planning, University of Texas at Austin
- Richard Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
- Melissa Krull, Former Superintendent, Eden Prairie Schools
- Jamie Lew, Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
- Jaime-Jin Lewis, Executive Director, Border Crossers
- Julie Mead, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, Univ. of Wisconsin
- Jessy Molina, Outreach Director, Welcoming America
- Donna Nevel, Community psychologist and Coordinator, Participatory Action Research Center for Education Organizing in partnership with the Educational Leadership Program at Steinhardt/NYU
- Halley Potter, Policy Associate, Century Foundation
- Jeanne Reid, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Vanessa Siddle Walker, Professor of History of American Education and of Qualitative Research Methods, Emory University
- Ken Tanabe, President and Founder, Loving Day
- Bill Tobin, Visiting Research Fellow, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University
- VISIONS, Inc. (Representative TBD)
Confirmed NCSD Speakers (Panelists and Workshop Leaders)
- Khin Mai Aung, Director, Educational Equity and Youth Rights Project, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Derek Black, Associate Professor of Law, Howard Univ. Law School
- John Brittain, Professor of Law, Univ. of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
- Josh Civin, Counsel to the Director of Litigation, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Susan Eaton, Research Director, The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
- Lia Epperson, Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- James Ferg-Cadima, Regional Counsel (Washington, DC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Erica Frankenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University College of Education
- Patricia Gándara, Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA
- Rachel Godsil, Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Elizabeth Haddix, Staff Attorney, UNC Center for Civil Rights
- Damon Hewitt, Director of the Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Gary Orfield, Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA
- Myron Orfield, Executive Director, Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School
- Dianne Piche, Senior Counsel & Director of Education Programs, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Brenda Shum, Senior Counsel for the Educational Opportunities Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Leticia Smith-Evans, Assistant Counsel of the Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Philip Tegeler, Executive Director, Poverty and Race Research Action Council
- David Tipson, New York Office Director, Appleseed Network
- Deb Vagins, Senior Legislative Counsel on Civil Rights Issues, American Civil Liberties Union Washington Legislative Office
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