National Advisory Committee
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.
Layla Avila
CEO/Executive Director, Education Leaders of Color
Andy Calkins
Director, Next Generation Learning Challenges
Camille Farrington
Managing Director, Senior Research Associate University of Chicago Consortium on School Research
Scott Hartl
President and CEO, EL Education
Robert Jagers
Vice President of Research, CASEL
John King
President and CEO, Education Trust
Carol Lee
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education, Northwestern University
Phyllis Lockett
CEO, LEAP Innovations
Lisa Quay
Executive Director, Mindset Scholars Network
Jim Shelton
Founding Partner, Amandla Enterprises
Jennifer Sirangelo
President and CEO, National 4-H Council
Shael Suransky
President, Bank Street College
Winsome Waite
Vice President of Practice, Alliance for Excellent Education
Jim Balfanz
President, City Year
Ron Dahl
Director, Center on the Developing Adolescent University of California, Berkeley
Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds
Vice President of Policy, ExcelinEd
Macarena Hernandez
Fred Hartman Distinguished Professor of Journalism, Baylor University
Lindsay Jones
President and CEO, NCLD
Cynthia Leck
Partner, Transcend
Rich Lerner
Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science, Tufts University
Robert Mahaffey
Executive Director, Rural School and Community Trust
Pedro Rivera
Secretary of Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education
Jack Shonkoff
Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Hal Smith
Senior Vice President, Education and Health, National Urban League
Diane Tavenner
Co-Founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools
Marty West
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
