Roey Ahram is the Director of Research and Evaluation at New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. His work focuses on understanding the causes for educational inequities and examining how schools can reduce those inequities through changes in policies and practices.

Antwi A. Akom is part of a new generation of college professors, innovators, and entrepreneurs building technology to inspire, equip, and mobilize people to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. In 2012 he co-founded the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design (I-SEEED), an award-winning nonprofit organization dedicated to building sustainable cities and schools. In 2013 Dr. Akom co-founded Streetwyze (A Benefit Corporation)—a best-in-class mobile, mapping, and SMS platform for residents to find goods and services, take action on important issues, and visualize neighborhood health and well-being. Dr. Akom has held academic appointments at UC Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and San Francisco State University. He holds a Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Environmental Sociology, an MA in Education from Stanford University, and a BA in Political Science/Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.