• Todd Greene, Vice President & Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

• Nicole Smith, Senior Economist, Georgetown Center for Education and the Economy

• Dick Blais, Senior Advisor, Preparation for Tomorrow, Southern Regional Education Board

• Ed Franklin, Executive Director, Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges

• Scott Jenkins, Director of External Relations, Western Governors University

• Paige Kowalski, Director, State Policy Initiatives, Data Quality Campaign
  

• John White, EVAAS Development, SAS Institute Inc.
  

• John Dorrer, Program Director, Jobs for the Future
  

Re-imagining the Connections

• Bruce Vandal, Director of Postsecondary Education & Workforce Development, and author of Revving the Education Engine: Effectively Aligning Education, Workforce & Economic Development Policy

• Marc Tucker, President & CEO, National Center on Education and the
  Economy

Educational Excellence, Equity and Economic Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century

• Ronald Ferguson, Director, Achievement Gap Initiative and Co-Leader, Pathways to Prosperity Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education