Texas Tribune Festival 2019

McInerny is an education reporter for KUT, the NPR member station in Austin, where she covers schools in Austin ISD. Previously, she worked as an education reporter for NPR and PBS member stations in Indiana. McInerny won an Edward R. Murrow award for a series she wrote in 2016 about... Read More →

Candler founded 4.0 Schools, an incubator of new schools and startups, in 2010. Previously, he helped found NYC Charter Center, the first citywide charter school incubator in the nation, and worked at the KIPP Foundation. Candler first taught in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and later... Read More →

Fraise is the founder and executive director of Workspace Education, a nonprofit educational co-learning community in Connecticut that works to individualize each child’s learning pathway using global resources. Fraise has more than 30 years of experience working in education, including... Read More →

Zapalac is a co-founder of Long-View Micro School, a STEM-focused school in Austin. She is also a consultant at the Number Lab, which works with schools and teachers to improve mathematics instruction, and serves as president of the Pease Park Conservancy in Austin. Previously, Zapalac... Read More →