Linda Darling-Hammond

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford
University and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute, created to provide high-quality
research for policies that enable equitable and empowering education for each and every child. She is
past president of the American Educational Research Association and author of more than 30 books and
600 other publications on educational quality and equity, including the award-winning book: The Flat
World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity will Determine our Future. In 2006, she
was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. She led the
Obama education policy transition team in 2008 and the Biden education transition team in 2020. She
was appointed President of the California State Board of Education in 2019.