Associate Professor of Education
Stanford University
John Baugh
Margaret Bush Wilson Professor of Linguistics
Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Calhoun (Lampkins)
Former Student Board Member
Oakland Unified School District
Toni Cook
Former School Board President
Oakland Unified School District
Carolyn Getridge
Former Superintendent
Oakland Unified School District
Lisa Green
Associate Professor of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Janice E. Jackson
Speech Language Pathologist
Sylvester Hodges
Former School Board President
African-American Task Force Chair
Oakland Unified School District
Sonja Lanehart
Brackenridge Chair in Literature and the Humanities
University of Texas at San Antonio
William Labov
Professor of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
Former Associate Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction
Oakland Unified School District
Theresa Perry
Professor of Education
Simmons College
Director, Simmons College/Beacon Press
Race, Education and Democracy Lecture and Book Series
Jean Quan
Mayor, City of Oakland
Former School Board President
Oakland Unified School District
John R. Rickford
J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities
Stanford University
Nabeehah Shakir
Educator
Oakland Alliance of Black Educators
Earnie R. Smith
Professor of Medicine and Linguistics
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Carol Lee Tolbert
Former School Board Member
Oakland Unified School District
Robert Williams
Professor of Psychology (Emeritus)
Washington University in St. Louis
Ronald Williams II
Former Student Board Member
Oakland Unified School District
Walt Wolfram
William G. Friday Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University
Mary Zeigler
Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Georgia State University
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