Ethan Gray is a Partner with City Fund. He is the former founder and CEO of Education Cities, a national nonprofit that supported and advised city-based education organization on their efforts to grow great public schools. Ethan is an honors graduate of Harvard College and hold and MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He lives in Bend, OR with his wife, son, and small adventure dog.

Lyman Millard has been working to provide under-served families with better educational options for more than 25 years. Since launching Bloomwell Group in 2017, he has helped national funders, regional nonprofits, and local school leaders in 25 states and the District of Columbia serve more students and attract more teachers. Prior to starting Bloomwell Group, he served on the founding team of Breakthrough Public Schools, where he helped launch 10 high-performing charter schools in low income communities. Lyman lives in Cleveland, Ohio and is the proud dad of three charter school kids.

Karega Rausch is the President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), responsible for ensuring NACSA advances and strengthens the ideas and practices of authorizing so that students and communities, especially those who are historically under resourced, thrive. He has extensive charter school authorizing, education research and policy, community engagement, and strategic advocacy experience. Before being appointed CEO at NACSA, Karega headed NACSA’s research initiatives, was a former Education & Charter Schools Director with the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office, the Board Chair of the Indiana Charter Schools Board, the Director of the Indianapolis affiliate of Stand for Children, and on the leadership team of Indiana University’s Equity Project, housed at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy. Karega has authored or co-authored numerous professional publications and has presented at many research conferences across the country on charter school authorizing, racial/ethnic disproportionality in school discipline, and special education reform. Karega earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in educational psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

Todd Ziebarth is the Senior Vice President of State Advocacy and Support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.