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Jennifer Abrams, M.Ed., Communications and Educational Consultant, Author of Having Hard Conversations.

Gabriel Adauto, B.S., Co-Founder Motion Math, educational game software developer, Stanford School of Education

Pam Allyn, M.Ed., Executive Director and Founder LitWorld and LitLife, Author, Your Child's Writing Life

Jeremy Bailenson, Ph.D., Stanford, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Founding Director

Suzanne I. Barchers, Ed.D., Text book writer teaching reading, and language arts. Author of children's books

Paolo Blikstein, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Stanford School of Education, FabLab@School Project

Jo Boaler, M.A., Ph.D., Stanford, Professor, School of Education, Author of What's Math Got to do With It?

David Bolinsky, former lead medical illustrator at Yale and co-founder of XVIVO.

Pete Bowers, M.A., WordWorks Literacy Centre, Founder, Author of Teaching How the Written Word Works

John Seely Brown, Ph.D., USC, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, Independent Co-chairman

Robert Calfee, M.A., Ph.D., Stanford, School of Education, Professor Emeritus, Member of Stanford Academic Council

Katie Davis, M.S., Researcher Harvard Project Zero, MTV, A Thin Linem Advisory Board

Norman Doidge, M.D. Author of NY Times Bestseller, The Brain That Changes Itself

Brock and Fernette Eide, M.D.s, Authors of The Dyslexic Advantage and The Mislabeled Child

Ron Fortune, MBA. Ph.D., CEO, Education.com

David Foster, Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative, Executive Director

Diane W. Frankenstein M.A. Author of Reading Together & Strategic Literacy Consultant

James Gee, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Literary Studies, Arizona State University, Author, What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Miraca Gross, M.Ed., Ph.D., Director of Gifted Education Research UNSW Australia, Author Miraca Gross, In Her Own Write: A Lifetime in Gifted Education

Bruce Hammond, M.A.T., Executive Director Independent Curriculum Group, long-term consultant to Tsinghua International School in Beijing

Shelley Haven, ATP, RET, BSME, Independent Assistive Technology Consultant

Georgia Heard, M.F.A., Founding member Columbia University Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Author

Marco Iacoboni, M.D., Ph.D., Author of Mirroring People:the Science of Empathy and How We Connect With Others

Dale Jacknow, M.D., Developmental/behavioral pediatrician specializing in neurodevelopmental issues

Wendy Ju, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, California College of the Arts, Lecturer and Researcher, Stanford University

Sandra D. Kaplan, Ed.D., USC, Rossier School of Education, Professor of Clinical Education

David Kelley, M.S., IDEO, Founder and Chairman, Chair of Stanford's d.school

George Kembel, M.S., Stanford, d.school, Executive Director

Salman Khan, M.S., M.B.A., Khan Academy, Founder & Faculty

Neeru Khosla, M.Ed., CK12 Foundation, Co-Founder and Executive Director

Jacob Klein, M.S., Co-founder Motion Math, Stanford Design School, media producer, software developer

Jann Leppien, Ph.D., University of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana, Associate Professor of Education

Matt Levinson, M.A., Author of From Fear to Facebook: One School's Journey, Assistant Head, Marin Country Day School

David Levy, Ph.D., Author, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

Beth Littrell, M.Ed., Associate Editor of The Gifted Education Communicator, GATE resource specialist

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, co-director of Relationships and Social Cognition Laboratory

Jan Morrison, M.A.,, Executive Director of TIES and Envision Excellence in STEM

Penny Noyce M.D., Author of Lost in Lexicon, established Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy

Dean Ornish, M.D., Founder and President of Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Ruth Parker, M.Ed. Ph.D., Ph.D., Co-author of Supporting School Mathematics: How to Work with Parents and the Public, 2006

Linda Pfiffner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry UCSF, Author of All About ADHD: The Complete Guide for Classroom Teachers

Denise Clark Pope, Ph.D., Author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

Prasad Ram, Ph.D., Ednovo Founder, Gooru a free web-based education solution, Former Director of Engineering, Google

John Ratey, M.D., Author, Spark: The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Larry Rosenstock, M.A., High Tech High, CEO and Founding Principal

Richard Rusczyk, B.S.E., Founder of The Art of Problem Solving, co-creator of the Mandelbrot Competition, USA Mathematical Olympiad Winner, 1989

Katie Salen, M.F.A., Founder of Quest 2 Learn, a new public school in Manhattan, and New Charter School in Chicago

Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., Author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping

Jonathan Schorr, B.A., Partner New Schools Venture Fund, Kipp Foundation

Nina Kim Schultz, M.S., Engineering Manager, Google Education Research Team

Richard Shankman, M.A., Co-founder of Mindful Schools

Shauna Shapiro, Ph.D., co-author, The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness into Psychology and the Helping Professions

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., Author of Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner

KR Sridhar, Ph.D., Bloom Energy; Principal Co-Founder and CEO

Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed.D., Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Instructor

Michael Thompson, Ph.D., Author of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Janice Toben, M.Ed., Consultant specializing in social and emotional intelligence, coordinator of Nueva's SEL program

Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ph.D., College of William and Mary, Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education

John Thomas West III, M.Ed., M.A., The Mirman School in Los Angeles, Headmaster

Terry Winograd, Ph.D., Computer Science Professor and Co-Director Human Computer Interaction Group, Stanford

Susie Wise, Ph.D., Founding Director, K-12 Lab at Stanford d.school

Ed Zaccaro, M.Ed., Author of Challenge Math for the Elementary and Middle School Student