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Rev. Aliah K. MaJon, Ph.D.
“Founder of the Next 50 Years Project, Dr. MaJon empowers both youth and adults to determine their own destiny and confidently step into leadership roles.”
Mr Chris Spetzler
Chris Spetzler, the Executive Director of the Decision Education Foundation, is passionate about bringing decision skills to young people. Chris supports educators and organizations in realizing and evaluating the benefits of decision education, develops decision skills programs, and teaches on the subject.
Nicole Anderson
Nicole provides educational equity services to ensure that equity is realized to enable all students to achieve personal and professional success. Her work focuses on building capacity in cultural proficiency as well as all areas of equity and diversity.
Heather Singmaster
Heather is the Associate Director, Center for Global Education at the Asia Society where her work focuses on international benchmarking and integrating global competence into Career Technical Education programs as well as state and national policy.
Sean Covey
Sean Covey is an American author, motivational speaker, and publishing executive providing business leadership and time management educational tools for organizations and individuals. He is known for writing motivational books for children and teens.
Barry Fingerhut
Barry is the Chief Executive Officer and majority equity owner of Certification Partners, a company that helps students develop 21st Century computing skills in ways that are easy, engaging, and flexible. Barry has a heart for helping the underserved become successful entrepreneurs.
Miki Bellon
Miki Bellon
Miki is a passionate leader dedicated to advancing access to leadership and education opportunities for all students in CA. Miki partners with Nonprofit, Corporate, and Community leaders to achieve high impact results and outcomes aligned with the Organization’s Mission, Program, Funding, and/or Strategic goals.
Steve McEllin
Steve McEllin
A Transformative Leader, Strategist, Instinctive Problem-Solver, Value-Creator, and Bridge-Builder, Steve has a passion for education reform and improvement of student outcomes. Steve frequently writes on topics such as servant leadership, SEL, and emotional and social intelligence and its influence on effective school leadership, school and education reform.
ROB SEITELMAN
ROB SEITELMAN
Rob is an Ed-Tech Consultant with over 10 years in public school classrooms and school leadership experience focused on cross-curricular integration and arts integration. For over 20 years Rob worked in the performing arts including professional acting, writing, and directing on stage and camera in New York, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area.

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