Past HKL Presenters
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Eric Adams Education and Communications Director, Youth Together
Lukas Brekke-Miesner Executive Director of Oakland Kids First Meesh Cabal Site Organizer and Community Liaison, Youth Together Jamileh Ebrahimi Youth Organizing Director, RYSE Center Michael Funk Director of the Expanded Learning Division, CDE Ivan Garcia High School Senior and Member of the Oakland Youth Advisory Committee Isaiah Grant Youth Participant, RYSE Center |
Eric Gurna President and CEO, LA’s BEST
Nathan Houston Conference MC and Founder of #iAmImpact Ronald James Director of Digital Learning, LA’s BEST Carlos Lemus Voter Engagement Coordinator, RYSE Center Deborah Lowe-Vandell, Ph.D Founding Dean of the School of Education, UC Irvine Milbrey McLaughlin, Ed.D Founding Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Communities, Stanford University Jonathan Piper Youth Participant, Youth Together Ne’jahra Soriano Youth Participant, Youth Together |
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Ashanti Branch Founder and Executive Director of the Ever Forward Club
An-Me Chung Senior Fellow and Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Mozilla Foundation Marnie W. Curry Researcher at the Center for Educational Research in the Interest of Underserved Students at UC-Santa Cruz Geordee Mae Corpuz Organizing Director at Californians For Justice Bill Fennessy, Director of Community Engagement and Work-Based Learning, THINK Together |
Jessica Gunderson Senior Director of Policy and Communications at the Partnership for Children and Youth (PCY)
Dr. Carol Hill, Principal Consultant, Radical Shift Consulting Dr. Helen Janc Malone Director of Education Policy & Institutional Advancement and is National Director of the Education Policy Fellowship Program at the Institute for Educational Leadership Lynn Johnson Co-Founder/CEO of Spotlight: Girls Libby Schaaf, Oakland Mayor Alex Vila, Learning and Development Associate, Lyric Samantha Walters, VP of Corporate Strategy, Colocation America |
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Joe Hudson, Region 4 Lead, Alameda County Office of Education Shawn Ginwright, Associate Professor of Education & Africana Studies, San Francisco State University Carol Tang, Executive Director, Children's Creativity Museum, SF Diane Ehrensaft, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco Michael Funk, Director, Expanded Learning Division , California Department of Education Jodi Grant, Executive Director, Afterschool Alliance Youth from RYSE Center, Richmond, CA Mariah Rankine-Landers, Director of the Integrated Learning Specialist Program, ACOE Katie Brackenridge, Senior Director for Expanded Learning Initiatives, Partnership for Children and Youth Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Associate Diretor, John Gardner Center at Stanford Stacey Daraio, Co-Director, Temescal Associates and the LIAS Project |
Tommy E. Brewer II, Jr., General Manager, LA-North West Covina Region, THINK Together
Karen Pittman, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Forum for Youth Investment Marisa Saunders, Annenberg Institute for School Reform's (AISR) Research & Policy Lara Kain, Senior Director, Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP) Jamie Julian, Social Worker and Intake Coordinator, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Center for TransYouth Health and Development Lou Bigelow, Clinical Research Coordinator, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Center for TransYouth Health and Development Heather Loewecke, Senior Program Manager, Afterschool and Youth Leadership Initiatives, Asia Society Dr. Michelle R. Perrenoud, Project Coordinator, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Expanded Learning Technical Assistance Unit Candace Meehan, Executive Director, 23 Seeds of Greatness |
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Diego Arancibia, Interim Director, ASAP Connect
Darius Simpson, Poet-Activist & Political Science Major Eastern Michigan University Michael Funk, Director, After School Division , California Department of Education Laura Rasmussen Foster , Program Director of Adult Education Studies, RTI International Alex Taghavian, Vice President, Linked Learning Alliance Regie Stites, Senior Researcher, SRI International Jenny Nagaoka, Deputy Director, University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research David Militzer, Education Programs Specialist 21st Century Learning; and Middle Grades Career and College Transitions Division, California Department of Education Ed Center, Consultant and Former Vice President of Education, United Way of the Bay Area |
Stacey Daraio, Co-Director, Temescal Associates and the LIAS Project
Narce Guinto, Youth Leader, Alternatives in Action Gemikia Henderson, Youth Leader, RYSE Center Tommy E. Brewer II, Jr., General Manager, LA-North West Covina Region, THINK Together Bill Fennessy, Director of Community Engagement, THINK Together Camille Farrington, Senior Research Associate, University of Chicago Consortium on School Research Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA Jose Quintero, Youth Leader, Change Agents Productions Stephanie Maceda, Youth Leader, THINK Together Gil Castellon, Youth Leader, A World Fit for Kids! |
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Diego Arancibia, Interim Director, ASAP Connect
Michael Funk, Director of the After School Division, California Department of Education Eduardo Briceño, CEO, Mindset Works Margaret Bridges, Developmental Psychologist and Researcher, Institute of Human Development at the University of California at Berkeley Peter Brunn, Director of Professional Development, Developmental Studies Center (DSC) Blanca Burciaga, Youth Presenter Kathleen Cushman, Co-founder, What Kids Can Do (WKCD) Elise Cutini, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Children’s Fund (SVCF) Stacey Daraio, Co-Director, Temescal Associates James S. Dierke, Executive Vice President, American Federation of School Administrators, AFL-CIO, and Former President of the United Administrators of San Francisco Shawn Ginwright, Associate Professor of Education & Africana Studies, San Francisco State University |
Benjamin (Ben) Gonzalez, Jr., Youth Presenter
Allison Haynes, Administrator of Pupil and Administrative Services, Riverside County Office of Education Lynn Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO, Glitter & Razz Productions Allison Kenny, Co-Founder of Glitter & Razz Productions and Director of Go Girls! Jerry Kwame Williams, Co-Facilitator; Drummer; Storyteller at Alchemy, Inc. Susan Mernit, CEO, Center for Media Change Corey Newhouse, Founder & Principal, Public Profit Gil Noam, Ed. D., Ph.D., Founder and Director of Program in Education, Afterschool & Resiliency (PEAR), Harvard University Damon Packwood, Program Manager, Hack the Hood Carissa Romero, Associate Director, Project for Education That Scales (PERTS), Stanford University Jackie Shonerd, Region 4 Afterschool Program Coordinator, Alameda County Office of Education Femi Vance, Ph.D., Research Associate at Public Profit |
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Saleeha Bey, High School Student, Oakland Technovation Challenge Participant
Gigi Carunungan, CEO, Mynerals Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director, Destiny Arts Center Steve Davee, Director of Communications & Education Specialist, Maker Education Initiative Dale Dougherty, Founder and Publisher of Make Magazine and Creator of Maker Faire Michael Funk, Director of the After School Division, California Department of Education Elia Gurna, Executive Director, New Urban Arts |
Lynn Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO, Glitter & Razz ProductionsAllison Kenny, Co-Founder of Glitter & Razz Productions, Director of Go Girls!
Corey Newhouse, Founder & Principal, Public Profit Elizabeth Reike, CEO & Executive Director, Center for Childhood Creativity Karena Salmond, Program Director, Performing Arts Workshop Nikki Shechtman, Ph.D., Senior Educational Researcher, SRI International, Center for Technology in Learning Shirin Vossoughi, Post-Doctoral Fellow San Francisco Exploratorium, Stanford University |
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Diego Arancibia, Coordinator, ASAP Connect
Christopher Bentivegna, Assistant National Director of Resident Services, NHP Foundation Bob Cabeza, Vice President of Community Development, YMCA of Greater Long Beach Renate Caine, Ph.D., Education Researcher Bill Deverell, Director, Huntington Institute Michael Funk, Director of the After School Division, California Department of Education Robert Granger, Ed.D., President, William T. Grant Foundation Jodi Grant, Executive Director, Afterschool Alliance Laurie Grossman, Co-Founder, Mindful Impact Stacey Daraio, Co-Presenter with Laurie Grossman and Senior Temescal Associate Lynn Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO, Glitter & Razz Productions Linda Kekelis, Executive Director, Techbridge |
Matthew Hurley, Director of Programs, Techbridge
Toody Maher, Founder and Director, Pogo Park José-Luis Mejia, Young Adult Engagement Coordinator, The Transitional Age Youth Initiative (TAYSF) Monica Flores, TAY Advocate Fellow, The Transitional Age Youth Initiative (TAYSF) Rene Ontiveros, TAY Advocate Fellow, The Transitional Age Youth Initiative (TAYSF) Jenny Nagaoka, Deputy Director, University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education Carla Sanger, President & CEO, LA’s Best Jane Quinn, Vice President for Community Schools, The Children’s Aid Society Nicole Yohalem, Director of Special Projects, The Forum for Youth Investment |
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Dr. Dean Blumberg, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco
Bob Cabeza, Vice President of Community Development, YMCA of Greater Long Beach Kathleen Cushman, Co-founder, What Kids Can Do Shawn Ginwright, Associate Professor of Education & Africana Studies, San Francisco State University Paul Heckman, UC Davis Debe Loxton, Chief Operating Officer, LA’s BEST Milbrey McLaughlin, David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy Director, John W. Gardner Center for Youth, and Their Communities Director, Center for Research on the Context of Teaching |
Alexis Menten, Assistant Director, Asia Society
John Mergendoller, Executive Director, Buck Institute for Education Michael Merzenich, Professor Emeritus, UCSF Jennifer Peck, Executive Director, Partnership for Children and Youth Erik Peterson, Policy Director, Afterschool Alliance Carol Tang, Director, Coalition for Science After School Jenny Cheung (Lowell High School), Janan Dea (George Washington High School), Nina Sardesh (Lowell High School), andBryant Tan (YEF Manager), Youth Empowerment Fund of San Francisco |
