EducationMakers: Shaping Generations

In honor of EducationMakers: Shaping Generations, we salute African American educators, educational administrators, and all of the mentors and role models who encouraged and inspired them.

Those featured include civil rights activist, author, and educator Timuel D. Black, Jr.; early childhood education expert and co-founder of the Erikson Institute Barbara T. Bowman; former chancellor of MIT and founding director of the MasterCard Foundation Phillip L. Clay; head of the Latin School of Chicago Randall Dunn; former professor and administrator at Morgan State University, MIT, Princeton University, and senior vice president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Richard Oliver Hope; distinguished professor, author, and Duke University’s graduate school dean Paula D. McClain; and University of Washington professor emeritus, author, and founder of Blackpast.org, Quintard Taylor.