OUR TEAM
Leadership
President and Vice-Chancellor, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Immediate Past Chair & Partner (Retired), Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer LLP
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
CEO, Voices
Founder, Social Studies Accelerator Entrepreneur-in-Residence, EdLoC
Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution Co-Chair, Pillars of the Community, Election Officials Legal Defense Network
Managing Director and COO (Retired), Blue Meridian Partners
Partner and Managing Director (retired), Goldman Sachs
General Counsel & Head of Governance, Google DeepMind
Senior Partner (retired), Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Community Advocate
Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Of Counsel, Jones Day
The iCivics Independent Review Council is comprised of well-respected scholars, thought leaders, and practitioners representing a range of viewpoints who provide high-level strategic support and guidance to iCivics, helping to ensure the fidelity of the curriculum to our core brand values and the EAD pedagogical principles, focusing on accuracy, contextuality, objectivity, and political balance. As such, iCivics Independent Review Council members are involved at various stages in the development of new resources and act as a sounding board and source of insight for iCivics.
Edward (Ed) Ayers, Ph.D.
Professor of the Humanities University of Richmond
Ashley Berner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education, Johns Hopkins University
Thomas (Tommy) Berry, J.D.
Research Fellow, Cato Institute Robert A.Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review
Belinda Cambre, J.D., Ph.D.
Social Studies Instructor at the Louisiana State University Laboratory School
Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr., M.A.
Executive Director, The Great Questions Foundation; Associate Professor of Government and Humanities, Austin Community College
Jane Kamensky, Ph.D.
Professor of American History at Harvard University
Averill Kelley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, SUNY Brockport and former classroom teacher
Jane Lo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University
Luciana de Oliveira, Ph.D.
Professor of Teaching and Learning at Virginia Commonwealth University
Ritu Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Associate Professor, Coordinator of the Social Studies Education Program, Chair of the Diversity Committee at SUNY Oswego
Alhassan Susso, M.Ed.
History Teacher, NYC Public Schools 2019 New York State Teacher of the Year
Daniel (Dan) Williams, Ph.D.
Director of Teacher Programs at The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University
Join the Team Building the Future of U.S.
We are big dreamers and go-getters driven by our goal of inspiring lifelong civic engagement. Our talented team does it all—from designing high-quality educational resources to advocating for stronger support of civic education to engaging our educator network.
Our mission is bold and, as a team, we lead, create, and achieve toward that mission.