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Tyrone Howard is a professor of education in the School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA and the author of several best-selling books. His research addresses issues tied to race, culture, access and educational opportunity for minoritized student populations. He is a native of Compton, Calif., where he also served as a classroom teacher. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the current president-elect of the American Education Research Association, which is the nation’s largest organization focused on educational research and policy. 

Thomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies. His work has spanned both K-12 and higher education, covering topics such as the design of school accountability systems, teacher recruitment and retention, financial aid for college, race-conscious college admissions, and the earnings impacts of community colleges. From 1991 through 2000, he was a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also been a professor of public policy at UCLA and has held visiting fellowships at the Brookings Institution and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 

Cristal Moore is a UCLA graduate with more than 25 years of professional experience in education. Currently, she is an elementary school principal in Los Angeles. There, she is focused on refining instructional practices and maintaining a lens for access and equity to ensure students become efficient learners and guide them to positive outcomes in life.