Andee Hendee currently works as a Senior Director of Program Management at TIAA in their Wealth Management team. Prior to joining TIAA, Andee launched her own consulting company, supporting organizations across strategic planning, financial modeling, talent strategy, and more. Andee also served as a Director at the Charter School Growth Fund, consulting with and supporting high-performing charter schools as they scale to serve more families and communities. Early in her career, Andee taught high school science. She earned an MBA and a master’s in environmental management from Duke University and graduated with honors with a BA in sociology and criminal justice from Gonzaga University as a first-generation college student.

Anna is a licensed clinical social worker and experienced classroom teacher and school administrator. She began her career teaching students with emotional and behavioral needs and struggled to care for her own mental health while also meeting the emotional needs of her students. Inspired by watching students work with the school counselor and return to the classroom ready to learn, Anna left the classroom to pursue school social work. Anna has spent the past decade growing and leading special education and wellness programs in schools, delivering clinical therapy to teachers, and doing doctoral research on teacher wellbeing. Anna has learned that to care for students, we need to start with the teachers. In that pursuit, she’s designed a Brain-Based Teaching curriculum that supports educators in creating healing centered classrooms, just as she wishes she’d done as a teacher.

Dr. Williams is a former Washington, DC Public School Teacher. He then completed his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. While completing his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, he served on the Departmental Diversity & inclusion Committee and helped develop a novel Health Equity & Social Justice Curriculum. He completed his fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he served as one of the founding members of the Department’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. He is a child & adolescent psychiatrist with the Wellness in School Environments (WISE) program, where he helps deliver school-based mental health services for children & families.

Dr Williams is the Director of Mental Health Services Innovation for the Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN) where he conducts community-based participatory research focused on early childhood development. He is also the Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at MedStar Georgetown Department of Psychiatry. He serves as a member of a number of committees related to issues of diversity and inclusion including: the Department of Psychiatry Anti-Racism Curriculum Committee and the Georgetown Racial Justice Committee for Change. He is also co-chair of a national antiracism curriculum initiative entitled, National Anti-Racism in Medicine Curriculum Coalition (NAMCC), which is sponsored by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

Dr. McKinney is an experienced leader in K-12 education with a demonstrated history of impact in school leadership, leadership development, and education management. She has an unwavering commitment to doing the work to dismantle systemic and institutional barriers to success that exists within our schools. Dr. McKinney has devoted her professional career to creating conditions that drive positive organizational outcomes and champion the values of equity, access, inclusion, belonging, and justice.

Dr. McKinney currently serves as the Managing Director of Networks for Leading Educators where she leads partnerships with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, instructional and leadership capacity that leads to equitable outcomes for all students.

An educator and a life-long learner, Nicola is driven by her passion for diversity and equity in schools, workplace wellbeing, and unlocking potential in the people around her. She’s bringing her vision for healthier, happier school communities to life with The Educator Wellness Project. Nicola taught grades K-2 and spent five years of experience coaching educators. She deeply believes that emotions matter and drive our behaviors at work and as learners. Nicola holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Education History & Policy from Brown University.

Sara Bartolino Krachman is the Founder of TransformEd, a nonprofit that partners with school systems to support educators in fostering antiracist, whole child development. Over nearly a decade as Executive Director of TransformEd, Sara led the organization's work to support school systems serving over 1M students across 25+ states and authored more than a dozen publications and toolkits that translate research from cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and related fields into actionable guidance and strategies for K-12 educators.

Before founding TransformEd, Sara was a Senior Associate in the Parthenon Group’s Education Practice. In that role, she served as a strategic advisor to leading national foundations, large K-12 school districts, and state departments of education on the design and rollout of large-scale education reform efforts. Sara earned an A.B. in Government from Harvard University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from Tufts University and the Institute for Nonprofit Practice.

Shernice has been a career educator for almost 25 years, 15 of them as a classroom teacher in grades K-6. Early in her career, Shernice was an elementary school teacher in the LA area. She left to join the UCLA Lab School and UCLA Center X, where she led staff professional development and provided equity-based leadership. She left UCLA to launch a diverse-by-design K-8 charter school in the San Francisco area.

Shernice has built her career on the importance of giving all children access to high quality teaching and learning in a supportive school environment. Her unique experiences have allowed her to acquire deep instructional and DEI expertise over her career as a practitioner. She was a Fulbright Teacher Award recipient, spending a year in England studying, teaching and researching best practices. She has trained hundreds of teachers at the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute on multicultural pedagogy, how to effectively teach second language learners, and lesson design through a lens of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.