Who We Are


Conference Program Leadership

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Section 1: Governance, Politics and Intergovernmental Relations

  • Ericka Weathers | University of Pennsylvania | erickasw@upenn.edu
  • Rachel White | University of Texas at Austin | rachel.white@austin.utexas.edu

Section 2: Legal and Judicial Issues for Equity and Access

  • Dwuana Bradley | University of Southern California | dwuana@bradley.usc.edu

Section 3: Curriculum and Instruction

  • Laura E. Hernandez | UC Berkeley | lehernandez@berkeley.edu 

Section 4: School Choice and Other Market Reforms

  • Zitsi Mirakhur | University of Kentucky | zitsi.mirakhu@uky.edu
  • Eupha Jeanne Daramola | UC Santa Barbara | daramola@ucsb.edu

Section 5: Testing, Accountability, and Data Use

  • Wesley Edwards | University of North Texas | wesley.edwards@unt.edu

Section 6: Human Capital and School Finance

  • David S. Knight | University of Washington | dsknight@uw.edu

Section 7: Social Context and Structural Inequalities

  • Alisha Butler | Wesleyan University | abutler@wesleyan.edu
  • Daniela Sutherland | University of Vermont | daniella.sutherland@uvm.edu

Section 8: Social Policy and Education

  • Tasminda Dhaliwal | Michigan State University | tkdhaliwal@gmail.com
  • Mark Chin | Vanderbilt University | mark.chin@vanderbilt.edu

Section 9: Policy Implementation and Going to Scale

  • Jerome Graham | Michigan State University | jgraham@msu.edu
  • Samantha Viano | George Mason University | sviano@gmu.edu