2016-2017
Terry Mazany, Chair
President and CEO
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago, Illinois
Board Category: General Public Representative
Lucille E. Davy, Vice Chair
President and CEO
Transformative Education Solutions, LLC
Pennington, New Jersey
Board Category: General Public Representative
Alberto Carvalho
Superintendent
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Miami, FL
Board Category: Local School Superintendent
Frank Fernandes
Principal
Kaimuki Middle School
Honolulu, Hawaii
Board Category: Secondary School Principal
Rebecca Gagnon
Director
Minneapolis Board of Education
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Board Category: Local School Board Member
Shannon Garrison
Fourth-Grade Teacher
Solano Avenue Elementary School
Los Angeles, California
Board Category: Fourth Grade Teacher
Honorable James Geringer
Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Board Category: Governor - Republican
Doris Hicks
Principal and CEO
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for
Science and Technology
New Orleans, Louisiana
Board Category: Elementary Principal
Andrew Ho
Associate Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Board Category: Testing and Measurement Expert
Carol Jago
Associate Director
California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA
Oak Park, Illinois
Board Category: Curriculum Specialist
Tonya Mathews
President and CEO
Michigan Science Center
Detroit, Michigan
Board Category: General Public Representative
Tonya Miles
General Public Representative
Mitchellville, Maryland
Board Category: General Public
Honorable Ronnie Musgrove
Of Counsel
Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush, P.A.
Madison, Mississippi
Board Category: Governor - Deomcrat
Dale Nowlin
Teacher and Mathematics Department Chair
Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation
Columbus, Indiana
Board Category: Twelfth-Grade Teacher
Jeanette Nuñez
Florida House of Representatives
Miami, FL
Board Category: State Legislator - Republican
Father Joseph O'Keefe, S.J.
Professor
Boston College Lynch School of Education
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Board Category: Non-Public School Administrator or Policymaker
Alice Peisch
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Board Category: State Legislator - Democrat
W. James Popham
Emeritus Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Board Category: Testing and Measurement Expert
B. Fielding Rolston
Chairman
Tennessee State Board of Education
Kingsport, Tennessee
Board Category: State School Board Member
Linda Rosen
CEO
Change the Equation
Washington, DC
Board Category: Business Representative
Cary Sneider
Associate Research Professor
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
Board Category: Curriculum Specialist
Ken Wagner
Commissioner for Elementary and Secondary Education
Rhode Island Department of Education
Providence, Rhode Island
Board Category: Chief State School Officer
Chasidy White
Teacher
Brookwood Middle School
Brookwood, Alabama
Board Category: Eighth-Grade Teacher
Joe Willhoft
Consultant
Tacoma, Washington
Board Category: Testing and Measurement Expert