Pennsylvania Education Policy Fellowship
Program Seminar Speakers
Participants in the EPFP will have the opportunity to interact
with many of Pennsylvania's leaders and education practitioners.
They represent a variety of perspectives on education policy issues.
Although this is not an inclusive list, the following people
have been speakers in past EPFP seminars
(titles and organizations listed are the positions the speakers
held at the time of their presentations).
- Colonel Charles Allen, Director,
Leader Development, Department of Command, Leadership &
Management, U.S. Army War College
- Dr. Edna Baehre, President, Harrisburg
Area Community College
- Dr. Peter Balcziunas, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities
- Dr. Herbert F. Barber, Faculty
Instructor, Department of Command, Leadership and Management,
U.S. Army War College
- Dr. Joseph Bard, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS)
- Joan Benso, President & CEO,
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children
- Janice Bissett, Senior Adviser to
Democratic Leader of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives
- Marjorie Blaze, Division Chief, Bureau
of Teacher Certification, Pennsylvania Department of Education
- Dr. Terry Blue, President, Pennsylvania
Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators (PAC-TE)
- Dr. Thomas Carey, Deputy Secretary,
Pennsylvania Department of Education
- Carla Claycomb, Senior Specialist,
Education Services, Pennsylvania State Education Association
- Colonel Ruth B. Collins, Faculty
Instructor, Department of Command, Leadership and Management,
U.S. Army War College
- Lu Consur, Pennsylvania Community
Providers' Association
- Donna Cooper, Director, Governor's
Policy Office, Office of Governor Edward G. Rendell
- Lynn Cromley, Director, Center for
Schools and Communities
- Fred Dedrick, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board
- Dr. Carolyn Dumaresq, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania State Education Association
- Dr. David Dumeyer, Executive Director,
House Education Committee
- Dr. Ann Dykstra, Executive Assistant to
the President and Secretary, Dickinson College
- Dr. Robert Feir, President, EdStrat21
- Al Ferguson, Assistant Executive
Director, Democratic House Appropriations Committee
- Dr. Rick Fiene, Director, Capital Area
Early Childhood Training Institute for Infancy, The
Pennsylvania State University
- Dr. Vito Forlenza, Assistant Executive
Director, Northeastern Educational I.U. #19
- Dr. Peter Garland, Vice Chancellor for
Academic and Student Affairs, Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education
- Thomas Gentzel, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania School Boards Association
- Thomas Gluck, Executive Director,
Democratic Senate Education Committee
- L. Michael Golden, Deputy Secretary,
Office of Information and Educational Technology,
Pennsylvania Department of Education
- Dr. Ted Hersberg, Professor, Public
Policy and History and Director, Center for Greater
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Paula Hess, Special Research
Senior Advisor to the Speaker, Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Dr. Arnold Hillman, Consultant, Bright
Futures Unlimited
- Dr. David Hornbeck, Former
Superintendent, Philadelphia School District
- Dr. Gerold Kohn, Superintendent,
Harrisburg School District
- Representative Edward Krebs,
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 101
- Dr. G. Terry Madonna, Executive
Director, Center for Politics and Public Affairs, Franklin and Marshall College
- John Malady, Malady & Wooten Public
Affairs
- Dianne McCormick, Deputy Director for
Communications, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children
- Dr. James McCormick, Chancellor,
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
- Dr. Kevin Moran, Principal and CAO,
Sylvan Heights Science Charter School, Harrisburg
- Amy C. Morton, Director, Educational
Services, Capital Area Intermediate Unit
- Dr. Robert Murphy, Faculty Instructor,
Department of Command, Leadership and Management, U. S. Army
War College
- Senator Timothy Murphy, Pennsylvania
Senate District 37
- Robert Nelkin, Director, Starting Points
Initiative, University of Pittsburgh
- Dr. Edward J. Nolan, Vice Chancellor
for System Relations and Advancement, Pennsylvania State
System of Higher Education
- Robert Nyce, Executive Director,
Independent Regulatory Review Commission
- Honorable Vicki Phillips, Secretary of
Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Tim Potts, Director, Pennsylvania
School Reform Network
- Mary Ramirez, Director, Bureau of
Community and Student Services, Pennsylvania Department of
Education
- Colonel George E. Reed, Director,
Command and Leadership Studies, Department of Command,
Leadership and Management, U.S. Army War College
- Tim Reeves, Press Secretary to the
Governor and Director of Communications
- J. Curtis Rose, Assistant Executive
Director of School Board and Management Services,
Pennsylvania School Boards Association
- Ian Rosenblum, Policy Specialist,
Governor's Policy Office
- Sharon Schwartz, Executive Director,
Aging and Youth Committee, Pennsylvania House of
Representatives
- Sandra L. Sheppeard, Assistant Director
of the Pennsylvania Academy for the Profession of Teaching
and Learning, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
- R. Winfred Smith, Retired Educator and
former President of the Pennsylvania School Boards
Association and the National School Boards Association
- Mary Soderberg, Vice Chancellor for
Administration and Finance, Pennsylvania State System of
Higher Education
- Stinson Stroup, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators
- Representative P. Michael Sturla,
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 96
- Liz Stanley-Swope, Education Services
Director, Pennsylvania State Education Association
- Christopher Wakeley, Executive Director,
Democratic House Education Committee, Pennsylvania House of
Representatives
- Dr. Ann Williams, CEO, Assistant Dean,
The Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley
- Kathy Yorkievitz, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania Head Start Association
- Dr. Mary Young, Vice President of
Government Relations, Association of Independent Colleges
and Universities of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Gerald Zahorchak, Secretary of
Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Marilyn C. Zilli, Esq., Chief of
Staff/Counsel to Senator Allyson Y. Schwartz, Pennsylvania
Senate
- Charles B. Zogby, Secretary of
Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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