KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Stephanie Land
Author
Day 1 | August 29
Stephanie Land
Author
SESSION SPEAKERS
SESSION MODERATORS
SESSION SPEAKERS
SESSION MODERATORS
Twitter: @stepville
Photo credit: Erika Peterman
Sal Khan
Founder and CEO, Khan Academy
Day 3 | August 31
Twitter: @khanacademy
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Day 2 | August 30
Twitter: @KhalilGMuhammad
Rachna Edalur
Junior, Texas A&M University
Day 1 | August 29
Drew Gilpin Faust
President Emerita, Harvard University
Day 3 | August 31
Twitter: @DrewFaust28
Maria Angélica Garcia
President, Santa Rosa
Junior College
Day 1 | August 29
Gina Ann Garcia
Professor, Berkeley School of Education, University of California at Berkeley
Day 1 | August 29
Stacy Hawkins
Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Day 2 | August 30
Twitter: @stacyhawkinsesq
Amna Khalid
Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton College
Day 2 | August 30
Twitter: @GinaAnnGarcia
Twitter: @AmnaUncensored
Stephen Marche
Author
Day 2 | August 30
Twitter: @StephenMarche
Zafir Naseem
Senior, University
of Maryland at College Park
Day 1 | August 29
Richard V. Reeves
President, American Institute for Boys and Men
Day 1 | August 29
Twitter: @RichardvReeves
Belle S. Wheelan
President, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
Day 2 | August 30
Kate Hidalgo
Bellows
Staff Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 1 | August 29
Twitter: @katebellows
Sarah Brown
News Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 1 | August 29
Twitter: @Brown_e_Points
Daarel Burnette II
Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 2 | August 30
Twitter: @Daarel
Stephanie Land’s bestselling debut memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive recounts her harrowing saga as a single mom navigating the poverty trap. Land’s story was the inspiration for Netflix’s Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated original series “Maid.” Her new book, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, out in November 2023, picks up where Maid left off as Land faces the new challenges of being a poor college student and single parent.
Sal Khan
Founder and CEO, Khan Academy
Sal Khan created Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. He is also the founder of Schoolhouse.world, Khan Lab School, and Khan World School.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s scholarship examines the broad intersections of racism, economic inequality, criminal justice, and democracy in U.S. history. At Harvard he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. He co-hosts the Pushkin podcast “Some of My Best Friends Are,” with his best friend, Ben Austen, in which they explore their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America.
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Karin Fischer
Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 1 | August 29
Twitter: @karinfischer
Eric Kelderman
Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 2 | August 30
Twitter: @etkeld
Laura Krantz
Subscriber-Products Editor,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 3 | August 31
Twitter: @laurakrantz
Ian Wilhelm
Deputy Managing Editor,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Rachna Edalur
Junior, Texas A&M University
Rachna Edalur is a member of her campus’s chapter of Active Minds, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting mental health. Coming from a small town and a primary school experience where discussions about mental health were minimal, she is focused on advocating for student wellbeing at Texas A&M as well as for other issues, including those related to students and technology.
Drew Gilpin Faust
President Emerita, Harvard University
Drew Gilpin Faust was president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018. In that time she sought to expand financial aid to improve access to Harvard College and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. She's a historian and recently published a memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury.
President, Santa Rosa Junior College
Maria Angélica Garcia is an equity-minded educational leader known for inclusive and strategic leadership. She joined Santa Rosa in July after serving as president of Berkeley City College from 2020 to 2023. During her career, she has focused on building support for guided pathways, apprenticeship programs, dual enrollment, and community outreach for K12 students and adult learners. She is co-founder and vice president of the California Organización de Latinx Empowerment, Guidance, Advocacy for Success, a statewide group that works to improve student outcomes.
Gina Ann Garcia
Professor, Berkeley School of Education, University of California at Berkeley
Gina Ann Garcia's research centers on issues of equity and justice in higher education with an emphasis on understanding the experiences of administrators, faculty, staff members, and students within Hispanic-Serving institutions. Garcia is the author of Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities, which won the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Book of the Year Award in 2020
Stacy Hawkins
Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Stacy Hawkins teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Employment Law, and a seminar on Diversity and the Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and diversity. Prior to academe, Hawkins spent more than a decade in private practice advising clients in both the public and private sector on the development and implementation of legally defensible diversity policies and programs.
Amna Khalid
Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton College
Amna Khalid specializes in modern South Asian history and the history of medicine. Growing up under a series of military dictatorships in Pakistan, Khalid has a strong interest in issues relating to censorship and free expression. She speaks frequently on academic freedom, free speech, and campus politics. She hosts a podcast and writes a blog that explores censorship in the past and present.
Stephen Marche
Author
Stephen Marche is a novelist and essayist. He is the author of six books, including Death of an Author, a collaboration between Marche and generative AI tools to test the limits of original, creative work. His other books include The Next Civil War, The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century, and The Hunger of the Wolf.
Zafir Naseem
Senior, University of Maryland at College Park
Zafir Naseem works with Active Minds, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting mental health. He started a chapter in high school because he says he saw that many students were struggling with poor mental health and lacked support from peers, adults, and the administration. In college, he helped revive an Active Minds chapter at the University of Maryland during the pandemic. He has focused in part on creating collaborative programming between student organizations and campus mental-health support services.
Richard V. Reeves
Senior Fellow in Governance Studies; President, Boys and Men Project, the Brookings Institution
Richard V. Reeves researches issues affecting boys and men, inequality, and social mobility. His latest book is Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It, which explores the structural challenges that face males and offers fresh and innovative ideas that shed new light on this issue. His 2017 book is Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It.
Belle S. Wheelan
President, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
Belle S. Wheelan's career spans over 40 years in education and includes the roles of faculty member, chief student services officer, campus provost, college president, and secretary of education for the state of Virginia. She currently leads the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), which is responsible for assuring educational quality and improvement of the effectiveness of member institutions. These institutions are primarily located throughout eleven southern states. Wheelan is the first Black person and the first woman to serve in this capacity.
Marni Baker Stein
Chief Content Officer, Coursera
Day 3 | August 31
Ginni Rometty
Former CEO, President,
and Board Chair, IBM
Day 3 | August 31
Twitter: @marnibstein
Goldie Blumenstyk
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 3 | August 31
Twitter: @GoldieStandard
Len Gutkin
Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review
Day 2 | August 30
Twitter: @GutkinLen
Ginni Rometty
Former CEO, President, and Board Chair, IBM
Ginni Rometty was the ninth chairman, president, and chief executive officer of IBM. Under her leadership, the then-100-year-old company reinvented 50 percent of its portfolio and established leadership in AI and quantum computing. She is the author of Good Power: Leading Positive Change Our Lives, Our Work, and World, and co-chairs OneTen, a coalition committed to upskilling, hiring, and promoting one million Black Americans by 2030 into family-sustaining jobs and careers.
Marni Baker Stein
Chief Content Officer, Coursera
At Coursera, Marni Baker Stein is responsible for deepening the company’s relationships with its more than 275 university and industry partners. In this role, Marni works closely with many of the world’s most renowned education institutions and employers to enable and accelerate content and credential innovations that will increase access, align with job market demands, and meet learners where they are. Previously she was chief academic officer and provost at Western Governors University.
Kate Hidalgo Bellows
Staff Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Kate Hidalgo Bellows covers health and safety on campus, as well as other higher-ed issues, for The Chronicle.
Goldie Blumenstyk
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Goldie Blumenstyk is a nationally known expert on higher education and has won multiple awards from the Education Writers Association. She is the author of American Higher Education in Crisis? What Everyone Needs to Know. At The Chronicle she writes The Edge, a weekly newsletter on the ideas, people, and trends that are changing the higher-education landscape.
Sarah Brown
News Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sarah Brown joined The Chronicle in 2015. In 2022, she became news editor, where she helps oversee daily news coverage and coordinates the reporting internship program. In more than six years as a reporter, Brown wrote about a variety of topics including Title IX, racial equity, and mental-health struggles of students.
Daarel Burnette II
Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Before joining The Chronicle in 2022, Daarel Burnette II served as an assistant managing editor and reporter for Education Week and the bureau chief of Chalkbeat Tennessee, a start-up news organization based in Memphis. He has worked as an education reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Louisville Courier Journal.
Karin Fischer
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Karin Fischer writes about international education, colleges and the economy, and other issues. She writes The Chronicle’s weekly newsletter, Latitude(s), about global issues in higher ed.
Len Gutkin
Senior Writer, The Chronicle Review
Len Gutkin writes the weekly Review newsletter, edits opinion articles, and is the author of Dandyism: Forming Fiction From Modernism to the Present.
Eric Kelderman
Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Eric Kelderman has been a reporter at The Chronicle since 2008, covering a wide range of subjects, including money and accountability in higher education, state policy, accreditation, and legal affairs.
Katherine Mangan
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 1 | August 29
Twitter: @KatherineMangan
Laura Krantz
Subscriber-Products Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Laura Krantz works to better connect our journalism with our audience. Previously she covered higher education and national politics for The Boston Globe.
Katherine Mangan
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Katherine Mangan covers community colleges, college completion, and student success. In more than 30 years at The Chronicle, she has written extensively about developmental education, dual enrollment, transfer, and access, as well as about sexual assault, campus protests, hazing, and free-speech concerns.
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Sal Khan
Founder and CEO, Khan Academy
Sal Khan created Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. He is also the founder of Schoolhouse.world, Khan Lab School, and Khan World School.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s scholarship examines the broad intersections of racism, economic inequality, criminal justice, and democracy in U.S. history. At Harvard he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. He co-hosts with his best friend Ben Austen the Pushkin podcast, “Some of My Best Friends Are,” in which they explore their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America.
Rachna Edalur
Junior, Texas A&M University
Rachna Edalur is a member of her campus’s chapter of Active Minds, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting mental health. Coming from a small town and a primary school experience where discussions about mental health were minimized, she is focused on advocating for student wellbeing at Texas A&M as well as other issues, including those related to students and technology.
Drew Gilpin Faust
President Emerita, Harvard University
Drew Faust was president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018. In that time she sought to expand financial aid to improve access to Harvard College and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. She's a historian and recently published a memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury.
Maria Angélica Garcia
President, Santa Rosa Junior College
Maria Angélica Garcia is an equity-minded educational leader known for inclusive and strategic leadership. She joined Santa Rosa in July after serving as president of Berkeley City College from 2020 to 2023. During her career, she has focused on building support for guided pathways, apprenticeship programs, dual enrollment, and community outreach for K12 students and adult learners. She is co-founder and vice president of the California Organización de Latinx Empowerment, Guidance, Advocacy for Success, a statewide group that advocates for student success.
Gina Ann Garcia
Professor, Berkeley School of Education, University of California at Berkeley
Gina Ann Garcia's research centers on issues of equity and justice in higher education with an emphasis on understanding how Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). She seeks to understand the experiences of administrators, faculty, and staff members within HSIs and the outcomes and experiences of students attending these institutions. Garcia is the author of Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities, which she won the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Book of the Year Award in 2020.
Stacy Hawkins
Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Stacy Hawkins teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Employment Law, and a seminar on Diversity and the Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and diversity. Prior to teaching, Hawkins spent more than a decade in private practice advising clients in both the public and private sector on the development and implementation of legally defensible diversity policies and programs.
Amna Khalid
Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton College
Amna Khalid specializes in modern South Asian history and the history of medicine. Growing up under a series of military dictatorships in Pakistan, Khalid has a strong interest in issues relating to censorship and free expression. She speaks frequently on academic freedom, free speech, and campus politics. She hosts a podcast and writes a blog that explores censorship in the past and present.
Stephen Marche
Author
Stephen Marche is a novelist and essayist. He is the author of half a dozen books, including Death of an Author, a collaboration between Marche and generative AI tools to test the limits of original, creative work. Other books include The Next Civil War, The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century, and The Hunger of the Wolf.
Zafir Naseem
Senior, University of Maryland at College Park
Zafir Naseem works with Active Minds, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting mental health. He started a chapter in high school because he says he saw that many students were struggling with poor mental health and lacked support from peers, adults, and the administration. In college, he helped revive an Active Minds chapter at the University of Maryland during the pandemic. He has focused in part on creating collaborative programming between student organizations and campus mental-health support services.
Richard V. Reeves
Senior Fellow in Governance Studies; President, Boys and Men Project, the Brookings Institution
Richard V. Reeves researches issues affecting boys and men, inequality, and social mobility. His latest book is Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It, which explores the structural challenges that face males and offers fresh and innovative ideas that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. His 2017 book is Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It.
Ginni Rometty
Former CEO, President, and Board Chair, IBM
Ginni Rometty was the ninth chairman, president, and chief executive officer of IBM. Under her leadership, the 100-year-old company reinvented 50 percent of its portfolio and established leadership in AI and quantum computing. She is the author of Good Power: Leading Positive Change Our Lives, Our Work, and World, and co-chairs OneTen, a coalition committed to upskilling, hiring, and promoting one million Black Americans by 2030 into family-sustaining jobs and careers.
Marni Baker Stein
Chief Content Officer, Coursera
At Coursera, Marni Baker Stein is responsible for deepening the company’s relationships with its 275 university and industry partners. In this role, Marni works closely with many of the world’s most renowned education institutions and employers to enable and accelerate content and credential innovations that will increase access, align with job market demands, and meet learners where they are. Previously she was chief academic officer and provost at Western Governors University.
Belle S. Wheelan
President, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
Belle S. Wheelan's career spans over 40 years in education and includes the roles of faculty member, chief student services officer, campus provost, college president, and Secretary of Education for the state of Virginia. She currently leads the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), which is responsible for assuring educational quality and improvement of the effectiveness of member institutions. These institutions are primarily located throughout eleven southern states. Wheelan is the first African American and the first woman to serve in this capacity.
Kate Hidalgo Bellows
Staff Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Kate Hidalgo Bellows covers health and safety on campus, among a variety of other higher-ed issues, for The Chronicle.
Goldie Blumenstyk
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Goldie Blumenstyk is a nationally known expert on the business of higher education and has won multiple awards from the Education Writers Association. She is the author of American Higher Education in Crisis? What Everyone Needs to Know. At The Chronicle she writes The Edge, a weekly newsletter on the ideas, people, and trends that are changing the higher-education landscape.
Sarah Brown
News Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sarah Brown joined The Chronicle in 2015. In 2022, she became news editor, where she helps oversee daily news coverage and coordinates the reporting internship program. In more than six years as a reporter, Brown wrote about Title IX, racial equity, and mental-health struggles of students.
Daarel Burnette II
Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Before joining The Chronicle in 2022, Daarel Burnette II served as an assistant managing editor and reporter for Education Week and the bureau chief of Chalkbeat Tennessee, a start-up news organization based in Memphis. He has worked as an education reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Louisville Courier Journal.
Karin Fischer
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Karin Fischer writes about international education, colleges and the economy, and other issues. She writes The Chronicle’s weekly newsletter, Latitude(s), about global issues in higher ed.
Len Gutkin
Senior Writer, The Chronicle Review
Len Gutkin writes the weekly Review newsletter, edits opinion articles, and is the author of Dandyism: Forming Fiction From Modernism to the Present.
Eric Kelderman
Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Eric Kelderman has been a reporter at The Chronicle since 2008, covering a wide range of subjects, including money and accountability in higher education, state policy, accreditation, and legal affairs.
Laura Krantz
Subscriber-Products Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Laura Krantz works to better connect our journalism with our audience. Previously she covered higher education and national politics for The Boston Globe
Katherine Mangan
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Katherine Mangan covers issues of community colleges, college completion, and student success. In more than 30 years at The Chronicle, she has written extensively about developmental education, dual enrollment, transfer, and access, as well as about sexual assault, campus protests, hazing, and free-speech concerns.
Ian Wilhelm
Deputy Managing Editor,, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ian Wilhelm has covered higher education for more than decade, focusing on international education, technology, and insights to help higher-ed leaders and administrators do their jobs better. He helps manage Chronicle Intelligence, a unit of The Chronicle.
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Stephanie Land’s bestselling debut memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive recounts her harrowing saga as a single mom navigating the poverty trap. Land’s story was the inspiration for Netflix’s Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated original series “Maid.” Her new book, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, out in November 2023, picks up where Maid left off as Land faces the new challenges of being a poor college student and single parent.
Maria Angélica Garcia
Sara Lipka
Assistant Managing Editor, Editorial Products,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 2 | August 30
Richard V. Reeves
President, American Institute for Boys and Men
Day 1 | August 29
Twitter: @RichardvReeves
Kerry Healey
Co-chair, Council for Responsible Social Media; former President, Babson College; former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Day 2 | August 30
Kerry Healey
Co-chair, Council for Responsible Social Media; former President, Babson College; former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Kerry Murphy Healey’s career spans higher education, elected office, and foreign and domestic public policy. She currently co-chairs the Council for Responsible Social Media. In addition, she is a trustee of the American University of Afghanistan, the American University of Bahrain, and Western Governor’s University. From 2019-2022, Healey was the inaugural president of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream and remains a senior fellow with the center. In 2019, she capped six years as the first woman president of Babson College, where she founded a global entrepreneurship conference and focused on greater affordability and access for students. From 2003-2007, Healey served as the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
Mary Strain
AI/ML Lead Worldwide Public Sector, AWS
Day 3 | August 31
Mary Strain
AI/ML Lead Worldwide Public Sector, AWS
Mary Strain leads business development activities for artificial intelligence and machine learning for education at Amazon Web Services. Mary began her career as a middle school teacher in The Bronx, NY. Since that time, she has had leadership roles in educational technology, curriculum, professional and workforce development organizations. As an advisor to educational technology firms, higher education Institutions and state agencies, Mary has been on the leading edge of bringing innovative technology to the public sector for two decades.
Pamela Johnston
Dean of Career and Academic Advising, Tallahassee Community College
Day 1 | August 29
Margaret Thompson
Director of Institutional Research and Analytics, Tallahassee Community College
Day 1 | August 29
Kevin Molloy
Sr. Higher Education Advisor, Workday
Day 1 | August 29
Margaret Thompson
Director of Institutional Research and Analytics, Tallahassee Community College
Margaret Thompson has worked at TCC for 18 years and 13 years as the Director of Institutional Research and Data Analytics. Margaret earned her B.S. degree from Clemson University in Computer Science. Margaret’s current responsibilities include Report / Dashboard Administrator, directs/manages a Workday Report Writing team for all areas of Workday (HCM, Finance, all Student Modules), State and Federal Reporting, BIRT Forms and Prism.
Pamela Johnston
Dean of Career and Academic Advising, Tallahassee Community College
Pam comes to TCC with 35 years of higher education experience in Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, as well as having been a faculty member at various institutions. Pam earned her B.S. degree from Bridgewater State University in Exercise Science and her Ed.M. in Education from Boston University. Currently responsibilities include Academic Advising, Career Services, International Student Services, Testing Center and Services, and Veteran Success Center and Services.
Kevin Molloy
Sr. Higher Education Advisor, Workday
A 40-year veteran of higher education Kevin was hired by Workday’s Chairman Emeritus, Dave Duffield to lead the Workday Student go to market team. A former college administrator Kevin has worked with more than 1,000 colleges and universities helping define their technology strategy as it relates to innovation and student success.
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Mary Strain
AI/ML Lead Worldwide Public Sector, AWS
Mary Strain leads business development activities for artificial intelligence and machine learning for education at Amazon Web Services. Mary began her career as a middle school teacher in The Bronx, NY. Since that time, she has had leadership roles in educational technology, curriculum, professional and workforce development organizations. As an advisor to educational technology firms, higher education Institutions and state agencies, Mary has been on the leading edge of bringing innovative technology to the public sector for two decades.
Pamela Johnson
Dean of Career and Academic Advising, Tallahassee Community College
Pam comes to TCC with 35 years of higher education experience in Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, as well as having been a faculty member at various institutions. Pam earned her B.S. degree from Bridgewater State University in Exercise Science and her Ed.M. in Education from Boston University. Currently responsibilities include Academic Advising, Career Services, International Student Services, Testing Center and Services, and Veteran Success Center and Services.
Kerry Healey
Co-chair, Council for Responsible Social Media; former President, Babson College; former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Kerry Murphy Healey’s career spans higher education, elected office, and foreign and domestic public policy. She currently co-chairs the Council for Responsible Social Media. In addition, she is a trustee of the American University of Afghanistan, the American University of Bahrain, and Western Governor’s University. From 2019-2022, Healey was the inaugural president of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream and remains a senior fellow with the center. In 2019, she capped six years as the first woman president of Babson College, where she founded a global entrepreneurship conference and focused on greater affordability and access for students. From 2003-2007, Healey served as the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
Jenny Maxwell
Head of Grammarly for Education
Day 1 | August 29
Jenny Maxwell
Head of Grammarly for Education
Jenny Maxwell is the Head of Grammarly for Education. Jenny has more than fifteen years of experience in the education/ed-tech space and over twenty years of experience in sales and leadership. Before joining Grammarly, Jenny led the higher education team at Pearson, the world's largest education content provider.
Jenny Maxwell
Head of Grammarly for Education
Jenny Maxwell is the Head of Grammarly for Education. Jenny has more than fifteen years of experience in the education/ed-tech space and over twenty years of experience in sales and leadership. Before joining Grammarly, Jenny led the higher education team at Pearson, the world's largest education content provider.
Jenny Maxwell
Head of Grammarly for Education
Jenny Maxwell is the Head of Grammarly for Education. Jenny has more than fifteen years of experience in the education/ed-tech space and over twenty years of experience in sales and leadership. Before joining Grammarly, Jenny led the higher education team at Pearson, the world's largest education content provider.
Liz McMillen
Executive Editor,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 2 | August 30
Liz McMillen
Executive Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
As executive editor of Chronicle Intelligence, Liz McMillen brings more than 30 years of experience covering higher education. From 2011 to 2018, she served as the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education. In her career at The Chronicle she has served as a reporter covering faculty issues, research, and business; a section editor; and editor of The Chronicle Review.
Beth McMurtrie
Senior Writer,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Day 3 | August 31
Twitter: @bethmcmurtrie
Beth McMurtrie
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Beth McMurtrie is a senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where she writes about the future of learning and technology’s influence on teaching. In addition to her reported stories, she helps write the weekly Teaching newsletter about what works in and around the classroom.
Beth McMurtrie
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Beth McMurtrie is a senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where she writes about the future of learning and technology’s influence on teaching. In addition to her reported stories, she helps write the weekly Teaching newsletter about what works in and around the classroom.