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Impact Award Winners

Recent Recipients

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2024 Impact Award Winner
Kara Bobroff

Kara Bobroff is a Diné and Lakota educator and leader who serves Indigenous youth and communities by creating learning spaces devoted to culturally and linguistically relevant Indigenized knowledge, holistic well-being and land-based learning practices. In 2020, she founded One Generation, which creates transformative social change through Indigenous-led programs and partnerships.

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2024 Impact Award Winner
Tom Vander Ark

Tom Vander Ark is an advocate for innovations in learning. As CEO of Getting Smart, he advises schools, foundations and learning organizations on the path forward. He previously served as the first executive director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and was a public school superintendent in Washington state.

Yong Zhao
2024 Impact Award Winner
Yong Zhao

Yong Zhao, Ph.D., is a foundation distinguished professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the presidential chair, associate dean and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education at the University of Oregon, where he was also a professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy and Leadership.

Past Winners

Impact Award 23 Gregg Behr
2023 Impact Award Winner

Gregg Behr is the founder and co-chair of Pittsburgh-based Remake Learning and executive director of The Grable Foundation.

Impact Award 23 Rose Luckin
2023 Impact Award Winner

Rose Luckin, Ph.D. is a professor of learner-centered design at UCL Knowledge Lab in Brighton, UK.

Impact Award 23 Sharif El Mekki
2023 Impact Award Winner

Sharif El-Mekki is the founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development in Philadelphia.

Roberto Rodriguez
2022 Impact Award Winner

Roberto J. Rodríguez, assistant secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.

ISTE Impact Award Winner Sydnee Dickson
2022 Impact Award Winner

Sydnee Dickson, Ed.D., state superintendent of public instruction, Utah State Board of Education, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Erin Mote
2021 Impact Award Winner

Erin Mote, executive director of InnovateEDU, Brooklyn, New York.

John C. Tsang
2021 Impact Award Winner

John C. Tsang, founder of Esperanza, in Hong Kong SAR, China.

Pedro Noguera
2021 Impact Award Winner

Pedro Noguera, dean of USC Rossier School of Education, Los Angeles, California.

Hadley Ferguson
2020 Impact Award Winner

Hadley Ferguson, executive director, Edcamp Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jhone Ebert
2020 Impact Award Winner

Jhone Ebert, superintendent of public instruction for the Nevada Department of Education, in Carson City, Nevada.

Kimberly Bryant
2020 Impact Award Winner

Kimberly Bryant, CEO and founder of Black Girls Code, Oakland, California.

Betsy Corcoran
2019 Impact Award Winner

Betsy Corcoran, CEO and cofounder of Edsurge, Burlingame, California.

Jennie Magiera
2019 Impact Award Winner

Jennie Magiera, chief program officer of EdTechTeam, Chicago, Illinois.

Sophia Mendoza
2019 Impact Award Winner

Sophia Mendoza, director of Instructional Technology Initiative, Los Angeles Unified School District, California.