Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D., is a senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and faculty director of the Education Policy and Management Master's Program. We are inspired by Dr. Mapp's 20 years of research and practice experience centered on the cultivation of partnerships among families, community members, and educators to support student achievement and school improvement. 

John A. Powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. john is the Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley, a research institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society and to create transformative change toward a more equitable world.

John C. Brittain was appointed Acting Dean of the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law in July 2018. Dean Brittain writes and litigates on issues in civil and human rights, especially in education law. In 2015, the Mississippi Center for Justice honored him as a "pioneering civil rights leader and esteemed law professor who has inspired a generation of young attorneys."