The First 100 Days: Impacts in Education, Implications for Civil Rights and Philanthropy’s Road Ahead

April 17, 2:00 pm ET

Join Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Grantmakers for Education and The Philanthropic Collaborative for Education for a timely check-in on federal and state actions affecting education and civil rights and an exploration of what’s most needed from and by philanthropy. This briefing will provide an opportunity for grantmakers across the learning spectrum and education ecosystem to understand the federal role in public education to advance and protect civil rights, stay up to date on executive actions affecting education and philanthropy, and share with colleagues their needs and ideas for charging a path forward.

Event Resources

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Bipartisan Policy Center Policy Area: Human Capital

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About the Speakers

Raymond C. Pierce
President and CEO
Southern Education Foundation

Raymond C. Pierce serves as the president and CEO of the Southern Education Foundation, where he leads the organization’s historic mission of advancing educational opportunities for African American and low-income students in the southern states. Since joining SEF in January 2018, Pierce has focused the organization on research, policy, advocacy and leadership development. Under his leadership, SEF has successfully launched initiatives in early childhood education, education innovation, and an intensified re-examination of school desegregation. Pierce has also led SEF’s engagement with the U.S. Department of Education in managing the Equity Assistance Center-South.

Prior to joining SEF, Pierce served as Dean of the School of Law at North Carolina Central University. Earlier, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights as a political appointee in the administration of President Bill Clinton. During that time, Pierce also served on the White House Domestic Policy Council working group in the development of the Empowerment Zones and related economic and workforce development policies.

Pierce has been a partner in the business practices at the law firms of Baker Hostetler and Nelson Mullins, where he represented clients in the steel, energy, and defense contracting industries. He also has represented clients in higher education. He began his career as a civil rights attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas, with the John W. Walker Law Firm.

Pierce earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Syracuse University, where he also received an officer’s commission in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and a master’s degree from the Duke University Divinity School.

Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond
President and CEO
Learning Policy Institute

Linda Darling-Hammond is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is also the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and served as the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Teacher Education Program, which she helped to redesign.

Darling-Hammond is past president of the American Educational Research Association and recipient of its awards for Distinguished Contributions to Research, Lifetime Achievement, and Research-to-Policy. She is also a member of the American Association of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Education. From 1994–2001, she was executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future was named one of the most influential reports affecting U.S. education in that decade. In 2006, Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. She led the Obama education policy transition team in 2008 and the Biden education transition team in 2020. In 2022, Darling-Hammond received the Yidan Prize for Education Research in recognition of her work that has shaped education policy and practice around the most equitable and effective ways to teach and learn.

Darling-Hammond began her career as a public school teacher and co-founded both a preschool and a public high school. She served as Director of the RAND Corporation’s education program and as an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. She has consulted widely with federal, state and local officials and educators on strategies for improving education policies and practices. Among her more than 500 publications are a number of award-winning books, including The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World, and The Flat World and Education. She received an Ed.D. from Temple University (with highest distinction) and a B.A. from Yale University (magna cum laude).

Rachel Snyderman
Managing Director
Bipartisan Policy Center

Rachel Snyderman serves as managing director of Economic Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where she is leads organizational fiscal, tax and retirement and financial security policy research and strategy. Her work is regularly featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Politico. Snyderman joined BPC following years of federal service with the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Commerce, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. She also spent time abroad with the U.S. government and with the Mexican Ministry of Finance & Public Credit. Earlier in her career, Snyderman worked for EY’s Quantitative Economics & Statistics practice in Washington, DC, and Innovations for Poverty Action in Cambridge, MA, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

She earned her B.A. in economics and Latin American studies from Wellesley College and holds an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where she is an adjunct lecturer of international economics. She is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the World Economic Forum’s Longevity Economy Working Group, Chief, and the Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.