Meet the Advisory Board

Manny Barbara
Former CEO, Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF)

Dr. Blanca Baltazar-Sabbah
Dean, Academic Counseling, Career and Educational Support Services Cabrillo College

Dr. David Fetterman
CEO Fetterman and Associates

Dr. Annamarie M. Francois
Associate Dean of Public Engagement
UC Representative, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

Sid Gardner
President, Children and Family Futures

Shimica Gaskins, Esq.
President and CEO of Grace/End Child Poverty California & Former Executive Director, Children’s Defense Fund

Dr. Michael Kirst
Professor Emeritus of Education, Stanford University & Former President of the California Board of Education

Dr. Julia Koppich
Education Consultant, J. Koppich & Associates

Judge Katherine Lucero (ret.)
Director of The California Office of Youth and Community Restoration & Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge

Dr. Jacquelyn McCroskey
John Milner Professor of Child Welfare Emerita
& Co-Director Children’s Data Network
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

Mary Perry
Education Consultant & Former Deputy Director, EdSource

Glen Price
Founder, Glen Price Group & Former Chief Deputy for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Dr. Richard Shavelson
Emeritus Margaret Jacks Professor and I. James Quillen Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University