Impact Award Winners
Recent Recipients
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.
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, 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.