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Jim Balfanz
President
City Year
Our work has been informed by hundreds of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. As an example, the SoLD Alliance National Advisory Committee (SNAC) regularly convenes to provide expert, strategic guidance to the SoLD Alliance as it develops infrastructure for systems change essential to making emerging lessons from the science of learning and development deeply understood, widely held, and actionable among education field leaders and the programs, organizations, and systems they lead. Members of the SNAC include field leaders from across the education and youth-serving landscape, representing research, practice, policy, and advocacy expertise.
Jim Balfanz
President
City Year
Jill Bramble
President and CEO
National 4-H Council
Andy Calkins
Co-Director
Next Generation Learning Challenges
LaShawn Routé Chatmon
Executive Director
National Equity Project
Camille Farrington
Managing Director, Senior Research Associate
University of Chicago Consortium on School Research
Andrew Frishman
Co-Executive Director
Big Picture Learning
Eric Gordon
Senior Vice President of Student Development and Education Pipeline
Cuyahoga Community College
Scott Hartl
President and CEO
EL Education
Robert Jagers
Vice President of Research
CASEL
Lindsay Jones
Chief Executive Officer
CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology)
Melissa Kim
Deputy Chancellor
District of Columbia Public Schools
John King
President and CEO
Education Trust
Cynthia Leck
Partner
Transcend
Carol Lee
Professor Emerita
Northwestern University
Rich Lerner
Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science
Tufts University
Robert Mahaffey
Executive Director
Rural School and Community Trust
Claire Marcy
Senior Vice President
Healthy Schools Campaign
Becky Pringle
President
National Education Association
Lisa Quay
Executive Director
Student Experience Research Network
Pedro Rivera
President
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
Kwesi Rollins
Senior Vice President of Leadership and Engagement
Institute for Educational Leadership
Rey Saldaña
President and CEO
Communities In Schools
Jim Shelton
President
Chief Investment & Impact Officer at Blue Meridian Partners
Hal Smith
Senior Vice President, Education, Youth Development & Health
National Urban League
Margaret Beale Spencer
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
University of Chicago
Shael Suransky
President
Bank Street College
Diane Tavenner
Co-Founder & CEO
Summit Public Schools
Marla Ucelli-Kashyap
Senior Director, Educational Issues
American Federation of Teachers
Winsome Waite
Senior Advisor
Global Science of Learning Education Network
Martin West
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, Academic Dean
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ross Wiener
Vice President & Executive Director
Aspen Institute Education & Society Program
Carey Wright
State Superintendent of Schools
Maryland State Department of Education