Linnea Conrad Roberts is a former advisory director to Goldman Sachs and is the current Founder & CEO of GingerBread Capital, which builds and invests in women’s entrepreneurial success. As a Managing Partner in the technology sector at Goldman Sachs, she led many a start-up from launch to IPO. She also served as Goldman’s diversity ambassador to recruit, retain and promote more women into leadership positions with the firm and within the finance industry.

Lindy Schumacher is Chief Executive Officer of Fulfillment Fund Las Vegas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to having a long-term, meaningful impact on college attendance and graduation rates for students growing up in economically and educationally under-resourced communities in greater Las Vegas.

Aneesh Sohoni is the CEO of Teach For America. Aneesh steps into this role after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of One Million Degrees (OMD), a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the progress of community college students towards economic mobility. Since 2021, Aneesh has led OMD to significant growth, quadrupling the number of students served across the City Colleges of Chicago and launching a new advisory and capacity-building service model to expand OMD's national impact.

Miguel Solis is the President of The Commit Partnership in Dallas and a former school board president of the Dallas Independent School District. From 2009 to 2020, Miguel served Dallas ISD as a teacher, senior central staff member, and school board trustee. Along the way, he helped transform it into a national model for large urban school district improvement. His efforts included helping create a principal and teacher evaluation and merit pay system and an early education policy, both of which served as a model for Texas' historic school finance reform legislation; a state law banning the practice of out-of-school suspensions for Texas' youngest students; and passing a total of $5 billion school bonds including the largest in Texas' history.

John White began serving as CEO of Great Minds in 2025. He joined the Great Minds team as Chief Success Officer in 2022. Under his leadership, the company more than doubled the size of its services business while also building new customer success, research, and public policy functions. John has also spearheaded partnerships with states across the country, including Texas, where Great Minds provides print, digital, and implementation support for Bluebonnet Math, the new state-approved open education curriculum resource.

John previously served as Louisiana State Superintendent of Education. In that role, John led efforts to unify the state’s fragmented early childhood system, modernize curriculum, improve teacher preparation, and overhaul state educational standards. Over the decade spanning John’s tenure, Louisiana ranked in the top 10 states for improvement on every one of the four main Nation’s Report Card (NAEP) tests.

Before that, John led the Louisiana Recovery School District, helping transform New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina, and was Deputy Chancellor for the New York City Department of Education. He served as Executive Director of Teach For America Chicago and Teach For America New Jersey. John started his career teaching high school English in Jersey City, N.J.

John is co-founder of Propel America, a non-profit startup connecting recent high school graduates with good first jobs, and Watershed Advisors, a consultancy to governments scaling high-impact education initiatives. He is a director at the Boston-based training company QBS; at Accelerate, which supports education leaders; and at New Schools for New Orleans. John also is an Education Advisory Council member at the global consultancy Alvarez & Marsal.

John earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in public administration from New York University, and doctorate in education from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and three children.