Acknowledgements
Co-Creating This Forecast
This forecast was co-created in partnership with thought partners and critical friends who shared their experiences, expertise and perspectives to help guide and shape the forecast.
The co-creators of this forecast are involved in education transformation in some capacity. They shared the beliefs that current education systems are oppressive and unjust, particularly for students of color and students from low-income families, and that we need new, intentionally anti-oppressive structures if we hope to change educational outcomes.
We believe that the contributions of every person who has touched this forecast should be recognized.
Authors
This forecast was created by Jason Swanson, Maria Romero, Katherine Prince and Katie King of KnowledgeWorks and by Andrea Saveri of Saveri Consulting.
Many thanks to Maria Romero and Rachel Wells for managing the project; to Mike Ball and Patty Casey for proofreading it; to Sanger & Eby and HyperX Marketing for translating our words and ideas into the design and webpages; to Todd Garvin for managing the design; and to Kate Westrich, Jillian Kuhlmann and Sean Andres for managing the production, communications and release.
Contributors
This forecast could not have been developed without the insights of the colleagues and education stakeholders. Much gratitude is due to these individuals for their time, thoughtfulness and courage in engaging with future possibilities for liberatory education.
KnowledgeWorks Advisors
Sean Andres
Manager, Marketing and Communications
Rolando Fernando
Director, Impact and Improvement
Lauren McCauley
Senior Director, Teaching and Learning
Anne Olson
Director, State Advocacy
Lisa Toms
Technical Services Engineer II
Eric Toshalis
Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives
Matt Williams
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
External Advisors
Leah Austin
President and CEO, National Black Child Development Institute
Temple Lovelace
Program Director, Assessment for Good, The Advanced Education Research and Development Fund
Shelley Zion
Professor, Urban Education and Critical Foundations, Rowan University
Director, Partnerships for Education, Equity and Research (PEER) lab
Language Literacy and Sociocultural Education Ph.D. Program Coordinator
Scenario Collaborators
Sarah Abdelaziz
Director, Activists in Residence Program, Abolitionist Teaching Network
Wendy Ake
Director, Just Public Finance, Othering and Belonging Institute
Leah Austin
President and CEO, National Black Child Development Institute
Caroline Blackwell
Vice President, Equity and Justice, National Association of Independent Schools
Lonny Brooks
Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, East Bay
Creative Director, AfroRithm Futures Group, co-designer of AfroRithms from the Future: a game to democratize anti-racist futures
Julianna Charles Brown
Director, Systems Transformation, KnowledgeWorks
Richard Gray Jr.
Deputy Executive Director, New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
Laila Ibrahim
Multimedia Afro-Arab Artist
High School Senior at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
Madeleine Rogin
Kindergarten Lead Teacher, Prospect Sierra
Niah Shearer
Senior Managing Director, Organizational Learning, Teach for America
Mikala Streeter
Founding Principal and CEO, The LIFE School
Natalie J. Thoreson
inVision Consulting
Interviewees
Sarah Abdelaziz
Director, Activists in Residence Program, Abolitionist Teaching Network
Wendy Ake
Director, Just Public Finance, Othering and Belonging Institute
Leah Austin
President and CEO, National Black Child Development Institute
John Bailey
Founder, Vestigo Partners
Caroline Blackwell
Vice President, Equity and Justice, National Association of Independent Schools
Michy Brand
High School Senior, Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
Youth Programming Coordinator at Providence Student Union
Bryan Brayboy
Vice President of Social Advancement, Arizona State University
Lonny Brooks
Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, East Bay
Creative Director, AfroRithm Futures Group, co-designer of AfroRithms from the Future: a game to democratize anti-racist futures
Erin Browder
Senior Program Associate, WestEd
Julianna Charles Brown
Director, Systems Transformation, KnowledgeWorks
Bryan Caplan
Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Bre Donnelly
Founder and Executive Director, Joy as Resistance
Rolando Fernando
Director, Impact and Improvement, KnowledgeWorks
Adi Gamache
High School Student, Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
Richard Gray Jr.
Deputy Executive Director, New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
Khalilah Harris
Vice President K-12 Education Policy, Center for American Progress
Caroline Hill
Founder, 228 Accelerator
Azella Humetewa
Head of Middle School, Native American Community Academy
Laila Ibrahim
Multimedia Afro Arab artist
High School Senior, Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
William Jackson
Chief Dreamer, Village of Wisdom
Walter Lewis
President and CEO, Homewood Children’s Village
Temple Lovelace
Program Director, Assessment for Good, The Advanced Education Research and Development Fund
Muffy Mendoza
Executive Director, Brown Mamas, LLC
Katiusca Moreno
Senior Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund
Jose Munoz
Director, Coalition for Community Schools
Thomas Nikundiwe
Executive Director, Education for Liberation Network
Lizzete Gonzalez Reynolds
Board Chair, KnowledgeWorks
Vice President of Policy, Foundation for Excellence in Education
Madeleine Rogin
Kindergarten Lead Teacher, Prospect Sierra
Mikala Streeter
Founding Principal and CEO, The LIFE School
Albert Sykes
Executive Director, Institute for Democratic Education in America
Traci Tackett
Director of Digital Literacy, Bit Source
