Morten Johannes Lauridsen is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007),he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001,and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music,where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019.
Henry Armand Giroux is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States,he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy,cultural studies,youth studies,higher education,media studies,and critical theory. In 2002,Keith Morrison wrote about Giroux as among the top fifty influential figures in 20th-century educational discourse.
Nilo Cruz is a Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics,he became the second Latino so honored,after Nicholas Dante.
Thomas Berry,CP was a Catholic priest,cultural historian,and scholar of the world's religions,especially Asian traditions. Later,as he studied Earth history and evolution,he called himself a "geologian".
Thomas Blanchard Stowell (1846–1927) was an American educator.
James Corner is a landscape architect and theorist whose works exhibit a focus on "developing innovative approaches toward landscape architectural design and urbanism." His designs of note include Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island and the High Line in Manhattan,and Domino Park in Brooklyn,all in New York City.
Nínive Clements Calegari is an educator in the United States. Following ten years of classroom experience in public schools,she became an author and founded a national literacy program,826 National. She also founded The Teacher Salary Project. Currently she is the CEO of Enterprise for Youth,an organization that empowers young people to prepare for and discover career opportunities in the San Francisco area through a three-phase program model of job-readiness training,paid internships with college credit,and ongoing career development and networking support.
Juan Felipe Herrera is an American poet,performer,writer,toonist,teacher,and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. He is a major figure in the literary field of Chicano poetry.
The USC Rossier School of Education is one of the graduate schools of the University of Southern California. Rossier offers six master's degree programs,a Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership (Ed.D.) degree,a Global Executive Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) and a Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy. Rossier also offers online programs including a master's in teaching English to speakers of other languages,an online Ed.D.,an online master's in school counseling,and an online master of arts in teaching. Rossier places an emphasis on the study of urban education locally,nationally and globally. The school also houses the USC Language Academy and the Office of Professional Development.
Shawn A. Ginwright is Professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University and author. His research examines the ways in which youth in urban communities navigate through the constraints of poverty and struggle to create equality and justice in their schools. Ginwright has also been noted for his studies in hip hop academics.
Esther Denise "Woj" Hochman Wojcicki is an American journalist,educator,and vice chair of the Creative Commons advisory council. Wojcicki has studied education and technology. She is the founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program in Palo Alto,California.
Robert Doyle Bullard is an American academic who is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs and is currently a Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University,Bullard is known as the "father of environmental justice". He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism,as well as the foremost scholar of the problem,and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.
Hilton Als is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California,Berkeley,an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker. He is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe magazine.
Frank E. Baxter is an American businessman and diplomat. A member of the Republican Party,he was the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 2006 to 2009 under President George W. Bush.
Arlene C. Ackerman was an American educator who served as superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools,San Francisco Unified School District,and Philadelphia Public Schools.
Frederick M. Hess is an American educator,political scientist,and author. He is a resident fellow and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute,and the author of the popular blogs "Rick Hess Straight Up" at Education Week and "Old School with Rick Hess" at Education Next. He is a senior contributor to Forbes,an executive editor of Education Next, and a contributing editor to National Review. His books include Spinning Wheels,Letters to a Young Education Reformer,Cage-Busting Leadership,A Search for Common Ground,The Great School Rethink, and Getting Education Right.
Shaun Harper is an American scholar on diversity,equity,and inclusion in the United States. He is a Provost Professor in the Rossier School of Education,Marshall School of Business,and Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.
Julia Chinyere Oparah,formerly Julia Sudbury,is a faculty member at the University of San Francisco. She is also the founder of the Center for Liberated Leadership in Oakland,California. Oparah is an activist-scholar,a community organizer,and an intellectual focused on producing relevant scholarship in accompaniment to social justice movements. She has worked at University of California - Berkeley,University of Toronto and Mills College prior to the University of San Francisco.
KIPP SoCal is a charter school operator associated with KIPP. KIPP LA,serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area,was founded in 2003 with two middle schools and now consists of 15 schools.
Katherine Loker was an American heiress and philanthropist. She donated tens of millions of dollars to fund university programs and infrastructure improvement at California State University,Dominguez Hills,Harvard University,and the University of Southern California (USC). She also made significant contributions to the California Museum of Science and Industry,the California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles,the Donald P. Loker Cancer Treatment Center,the Los Angeles Music Center,and the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda,among other institutions. She was honored in 1996 with the Harvard Alumni Association Medal and in 2007 received the Presidential Medallion,the highest award of USC. Loker was awarded an honorary doctorate from USC in 1997 and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Harvard in 2000. In 1999,The New York Times spotlighted her leading role in philanthropy. The rose 'Katherine Loker' is named in her honor as are many facilities in California and Massachusetts.
