The judging panel includes leading experts in education, infrastructure, community development, and emerging technologies. The judging panel will evaluate submissions against the Phase 1 evaluation criteria.
Judging panel
Phase 1 judging panel
- Russell Altenburg — Senior Program Officer, Education; The Leon Levine Foundation
- Anna Arsenault — Education Research Consultant; Clayton Christensen Institute
- Amber Audrain — Founder & Lead Advisor; Audrain Advising
- Mike Bartlett — Program Director, Postsecondary and Workforce Success; National League of Cities
- Ashley Boat, Ph.D. — Senior Research Scientist; Search Institute
- Maaike Bouwmeester, Ph.D. — Clinical Assistant Professor; NYU Steinhardt, Educational Communications and Technology
- Phillip Burgoyne-Allen — Manager, Technical Assistance and Policy Implementation, Electric School Bus Initiative; World Resources Institute
- Liz Cohen — Policy Director; FuturEd at Georgetown
- Joelle Deleveaux — Strategy Officer for Innovation and Discovery; Lumina Foundation
- James Doyle, Ed.D. — Project Officer; Grable Foundation
- Abby Feuer — EVP, Strategy & Innovation; DonorsChoose
- Peter Gault — Founder & Executive Director; Quill.org
- David Gilford — Head of Policy and Strategic Partnerships; Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
- Grace Gowdy, Ph.D. — Senior Researcher; Education Northwest
- Stacy Hawthorne, Ed.D. — Chief Academic Officer; Learn21
- Judith Hoskens — Partner and Senior Planner in K-12; DLR Group
- Zenith Houston — Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer; Purpose Built Communities
- Khaled Ismail — Principal; Education First
- Allison Jones — Senior Director; America Achieves
- Fares Georges Khalil, Ph.D. — Postdoctoral Researcher; HundrED
- Alex Kotran — Co-Founder & CEO; The AI Education Project
- Todd Laudino — Senior Manager, Recognition and Engagement; National Association of Secondary School Principals
- Melissa Lee — Principal; Public Works Partners
- Jennifer Levine — Chief Academic Officer: PreK-12; CAST
- Jordan Lin — Senior Manager of Innovation; Education Design Lab
- Elena Madison — Vice President; Project for Public Spaces
- Cierra Mantz — Project Architect; Fielding International
- Edna Martinson — Co-Founder; Boddle Learning
- Kerry McKittrick — Director; The Project on Workforce at Harvard
- Ariam Mogos — Emerging Tech Lead; Stanford d.school
- Lilach Mollick, Ed.D. — Director of Pedagogy; Wharton Interactive
- Kimberly Moore — CEO and Co-Founder; Go Together, Inc.
- Thomas Murray — Director of Innovation; Future Ready Schools, All4Ed
- Shannon Murtagh — Co-Founder; Imagine Network
- Edgar J. Palacios — Executive Director; Revolución Educativa
- Demetrius Palmer — Investor; Reach Capital
- Heidy Persaud — Director of Transportation Equity; Center for Neighborhood Technology
- Libby Pier, Ph.D. — Chief of Staff & Director of Impact; Education Analytics
- Vikas Plakkot — Director, Alumni Leadership Pathways; Teach for All
- Katherine Prince — Vice President, Strategic Foresight; KnowledgeWorks
- Sarah Radcliffe — Director of Future Ready Learning; School District of Altoona, WI
- Kyle Ragan — Principal; Cityfi
- Margo Roen — Co-Founder; Imagine Network
- Pati Ruiz, Ed.D. — Senior Director, EdTech and Emerging Technologies; Digital Promise
- Chloe Sanducci — Project Director, Project Unicorn; InnovateEDU
- James Siegal — Senior Fellow; KABOOM!
- Mohan Sivaloganathan — Principal/Strategic Advisor; Harmonious Leadership/Our Turn
- Angelica Solis-Montero — Chief Policy Officer; Education Leaders of Color
- Nathan Strenge — Senior Learning Designer; Fielding International
- Kripa Sundar, Ph.D. — Founder & Lead Researcher; EdTech Recharge
- Harold Tran — Vice President, Education Strategy and Technology Enablement; Vantage Point Consulting
- Julie Willcott — Education Products Manager; zSpace, Inc.
- Tim Wills — Chief Impact Officer; MENTOR
- Manasa Yeturu — Head of Learning Experience Design, Design for Extreme Affordability & Undergraduate Social Impact Domain Advisor; Stanford d.school
- Amy Yurko — Founder and President; BrainSpaces, Inc.
- Nathaniel Zenner — EdTech Partnerships Lead; Google
- Leo Zhadanovsky — Chief Technologist, Education, Worldwide Public Sector; Amazon Web Services