Team

  • Ary Amerikaner

    Co-Founder and Executive Director

  • GeDá Jones Herbert

    Chief Legal Counsel

  • Stephen Owens

    Director of Policy and Advocacy

  • Cara Berg Powers

    Massachusetts State Director

  • Fatema Jaffer

    Legal Fellow

  • Camille Pendley Hau

    Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellow at the Southern Education Foundation

  • Olivia Roark

    Intern

  • Priyanka Mukhara

    Intern

Advisory Board

  • Saba Bireda

    Brown’s Promise Co-founder

    Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight

  • Aaron Ament

    National Student Legal Defense Network

  • Derek Black

    University of South Carolina School of Law

  • John Brittain

    UDC Law; Learning Policy Institute

  • Gina Chirichigno

    National Coalition on School Diversity

  • Linda Darling-Hammond

    Learning Policy Institute

  • David Hinojosa

    Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law

  • Rucker Johnson

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Bob Kim

    Education Law Center

  • John King

    10th US Secretary of Education;
    State University of New York

  • Raymond Pierce

    Southern Education Foundation

  • Gini Pupo-Walker

    Raikes Foundation

  • Elizabeth Horton Sheff

    Elizabeth Horton Sheff

    Sheff Movement Coalition

  • Philip Tegeler

    Poverty and Race Research Action Council