• Roberto Rodriguez, Special Assistant to the President for Education, White House Domestic Policy Council
• Richard Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
• Deborah Vagins, Senior Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington Legislative Office
• Derek Black, Associate Professor of Law, Howard University Law School
• James Forman Jr., Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School (moderator)

3:15-4:30 - Dessert & Breakout Sessions (see listings below)

 

4:45-5:30 Plenary: The Future of School Integration: A Dialogue

• Gary Orfield, Co-Director, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles UCLA
• john powell, Director, Haas Center for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of California-Berkeley
• David Hinojosa, Regional Counsel (San Antonio, TX), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Tanya Clay House, Public Policy Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Rachel Godsil, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School (moderator)  

• Elizabeth Horton Sheff, Education Advocate, Hartford, CT
• Martha McCoy, Executive Director, Everyday Democracy
• Donna Nevel, Community psychologist and Coordinator, Participatory Action Research Center for Education Organizing in partnership with the Educational Leadership Program at Steinhardt/NYU
• Brenda Shum, Senior Counsel, Educational Opportunities Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (moderator)

• Anurima Bhargava, Chief, Educational Opportunities Section, Civil Rights Division at Department of Justice
• Randolph Wills, Enforcement Director, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education
• Elizabeth Haddix, Staff Attorney, UNC Center for Civil Rights
• Joshua Civin, Counsel to the Director of Litigation, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (moderator)

• Jaime-Jin Lewis, Executive Director, Border Crossers
• Jessy Molina, Outreach Director, Welcoming America
• Ken Tanabe, President and Founder, Loving Day
• Bill Tobin, Visiting Research Fellow, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University
• Susan Eaton, Co-Director, One Nation Indivisible (facilitator)

• George Coleman, Consultant to the Connecticut Commissioner of Education
• Bruce Douglas, Executive Director, Capitol Region Education Council
• Dr. Anna Hinton, Director, Parental Options and Information, U.S. Department of Education
• Marilynn Smith, Magnet program coordinator, District 197 - West St. Paul
• Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Mary Filardo, Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund
• Lisa Donlan, President, District 1 Community Education Council, NYC
• Jennifer Jellison Holme, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Planning, University of Texas at Austin
• Myron Orfield, Executive Director, Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School
• Lia Epperson, Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (moderator)

• Quyen Dinh, Education Policy Advocate, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
• Patricia Gandara, Co-Director, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles UCLA
• David Hinojosa, Regional Counsel (San Antonio, TX), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Jamie Lew, Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
• Khin Mai Aung, Director, Educational Equity and Youth Rights Project, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (co-facilitator)
• Jim Ferg-Cadima, Regional Counsel (Washington, DC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (co-facilitator)

• Representative from VISIONS, Inc.
• Eric Cooper, President and Founder, National Urban Alliance
• Willis Hawley, Director, Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Diverse Students Initiative
• Leticia Smith-Evans, Assistant Counsel of the Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (facilitator)

• Julie Mead, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, Univ. of Wisconsin
• Halley Potter, Policy Associate, Century Foundation
• Rachel Godsil, Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law (moderator)

• Donna Bivens, Meghan Doran, and Jacqui Lindsay, Boston Busing/Desegregation Project 
• Vanessa Siddle Walker, Professor of History of American Education and of Qualitative Research Methods, Emory University
• David Tipson, New York Office Director, Appleseed Network (facilitator)

• Michael Alves, School Diversity Consultant, Boston, MA
• Dena Dossett, Director of Planning, Jefferson County Public Schools
• Jocelyn Samuels, Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
• john powell, Director, Haas Center for Diversity & Inclusion
• Dennis Parker, Director, Racial Justice Program, American Civil Liberties Union (moderator)

• Jeanne Reid, Ed.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Center for Children and Families, Teacher's College at Columbia University 
• Josephine DiPietro-Smith, Principal, Reggio Magnet School, Avon, CT
• Erin Hardy, Research Assistant, Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University
• Dr. Jerlean Daniel, Executive Director, National Association for the Education of Young Children 

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