Mason Pashia
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Mason is the Creative Director at Getting Smart where he shares and publishes stories of innovation, equity and impact, as well as partners with organizations to identify signals and drivers that are altering the learning landscape. Mason is a lover of questions and is a passionate advocate for sustainability and the arts. With a background in branding, marketing and music/poetry, Mason is focused on empowering every person to share and begin their story. Mason lives in West Seattle with his partner and plants. |
Marissa Wicklund
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Marissa is the Advocacy Manager at Getting Smart. She has been in education for over 10 years, in both Special Education and Visual Art roles with students of all grade levels. She grew up in Kenya and has lived in several US cities since, but currently resides with her family in Colorado. One connecting thread through her journey has been that she thrives when playing in the great outdoors through mountain biking, camping, running, and hiking. |
Jonathan Levi, FAIA
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Jonathan Levi is an eloquent and vital voice in architecture – a practitioner, teacher, and mentor for more than 40 years.
He received a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Art from Yale University. In 1985, he founded Jonathan Levi Architects in Boston after serving with the internationally-noted Chicago firm Hammond Beeby and Babka.
Mr. Levi’s work reflects his deep dedication to extending the legacy of socially progressive modern architecture. His practice centers around highly refined projects, featuring widely applicable innovations in design and technology, improving the quality of life and productivity. A champion of the profession, Mr. Levi has mastered the ability, through co-creation, to gain clients’ and constituency groups’ trust to achieve their highest aspirations for the future while developing the tectonic principles he’s dedicated to teaching and developing in his practice.
His prominent designs include Dearborn High School, a community-transforming public STEM academy for the City of Boston; a multi-phase transformation of the Federal Office Building in Andover, MA into a sustainable model workplace as part of the GSA’s Design Excellence Program; and a Holocaust memorial in Charleston, SC that synthesizes urban architecture and his own sculpture to produce an urban event of expressive power. In 2009 Mr. Levi developed a master plan and designed housing for the Sidra Medical Research Center and a community center, public spaces, sports facilities, markets, cafés and a mosque in the State of Qatar.
Mr. Levi is a former Adjunct Full Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Additionally, he has guest lectured at University College, Dublin, Harvard University, Auburn University, Northeastern University, and The University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a prolific, frequently published author and sought-after expert for national and international publications.
A recent recipient of the AIA/BSA/City of Boston’s Harleston Parker Medal for the single most significant work of architecture built in the Boston metropolitan area during the last ten years, other recent significant honors includes the 2019 AIA/BSA Award for Design Excellence; 2018 AIA New England Award for Design Excellence; 2016 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award; and 2014 U.S. General Services Administration Public Building Service Biennial Design Award. |
Adele Willson
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During her 35+ years of experience, Adele Willson has worked with nearly 300 different schools in all aspects of the architectural design practice, most notably educational planning and programming. She is passionate about making the connection between education and design by creating spaces for students to learn and thrive. She understands the complexities of Next Generation educational design, and has dedicated her career to designing high performing, beautiful schools that meet the needs of both current and future learners. Ms. Willson is an Accredited Learning Environment Planner, a professional designation signifying excellence in the industry. |
Arlie Huffman
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Arlie is the Director of Career and College Connections for Boulder Valley School District where he leads a team focused on Career and Technical Education, dual and concurrent enrollment, and work-based learning. He is also the principal of Boulder TEC, the Career and Technical Education center for BVSD.
Arlie's Ph.D. in Education focused on studying a type of early college that provided students with the opportunity to earn both their Associates Degree and K-12 diploma after four years in high school. He has over 20 years experience in Career and Technical Education, dual and concurrent enrollment, and work-based learning starting as a computer science teacher and progressing through school and district administrative positions.
Before beginning his career in education, Arlie was an atmospheric research scientist, but he decided he needed to get his head out of the clouds. |
Jill Henden
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Jill is the Executive Director of the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation and has served in this role since 2012. In her 28 years in the non-profit sector, Jill has worked in large community based organizations and smaller foundations within large professional associations. Jill’s work with the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation has focused on supporting teachers through an innovative classroom grant program, distributing scholarships and funding mental health initiatives that increase student access to support services. Jill’s role on the planning committee for the Cherry Creek Innovation Campus (CCIC) was to bring industry and education together to help shape the curriculum and physical space of the building. She has also secured additional funding for the campus from corporations and private foundations as well as facilitate industry and community partnerships. |
Chaney Mosley
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Chaney is Associate Director of the Tennessee STEM Education Center and Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where he instructs coursework for preservice teachers in STEM fields and works on teams to secure external funding for research and outreach. Over the past five years at MTSU, he has served as PI or Co-PI on numerous federally funded grant projects securing a combined total of external funding in excess of $31 million. Dr. Mosley represents MTSU on six external committees and boards, including a Governor appointed position on the Tennessee Farmer Suicide Prevention Task Force. He currently serves more than 23,000 members as President of the Association for Career and Technical Education, the nation’s largest organization for CTE professionals, aimed at providing educational leadership in developing a competitive workforce.
Before joining MTSU, Dr. Mosley was the Director of CTE and the Academies of Nashville for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), where he provided leadership for 41 career academies employing 125 CTE educators across 15 high schools serving more than16,000 students. He managed an operating budget in excess of $9.8 million while collaborating with more than 350 business, industry and higher education partners to support successful secondary to postsecondary transitions for a diverse student population, with greater than 75% of students coming from low-income families. He was also an Assistant Principal at Nashville Big Picture High School, a specialty school with embedded work-based learning where all students engage with industry partners through a two-day off-campus internship each week. After executing the five-year strategic plan for the Academies of Nashville, a 2015 review of data showed impressive results with student achievement at the advanced and proficient level having risen 28% in Algebra I, 15% in English I, 9% in English II, 11% in Biology, 23% in Algebra II, and 11% in Chemistry; 5,129 more high school students scored at the advanced or proficient level as compared to 2010. The average ACT score increased to 18.4 with the number of students receiving a 21 or higher increasing from 27% to 29.3%, and MNPS has experienced a 90.1% increase in CTE concentrators with scholarship offers increasing from $83.5 million in 2012, the year Dr. Mosley assumed the position, to $116.8 million.
Dr. Mosley has more than 20 years of experience in educational leadership that encompasses teaching, outreach, policy and research; he has earned a national reputation in the field. He completed the National Leadership Fellowship with the Association for Career and Technical Education and has helped formulate and implement local, state, and national education policy. He was featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered in a story titled “College? Career Tech? In Nashville, Teens Do Both” and he was interviewed for a USA Today story titled “Closing the Gap Between School and Work” where he spoke about career and technical education as an approach to dropout prevention. By invitation, he twice participated in the Clinton Global Initiative American as part of the Reconnecting Youth working group aimed at the reengagement of opportunity youth, where he collaborated with state and local organizations to create a program serving foster youth in successful transitions to adulthood through workforce development initiatives.
Dr. Mosley authored/co-authored more than 35 empirical and practical articles about education and workforce development, presented more than 55 professional development workshops and presentations to educational leaders, researchers, and practitioners, and delivered the keynote address at four conferences. Practically, he has conducted statewide CTE teacher professional development needs assessments for the states of Tennessee and Washington and currently serves on the National Career Clusters Advisory Committee for AdvanceCTE, the longest-standing national non-profit that represents State Directors and state leaders responsible for secondary, postsecondary and adult Career Technical Education (CTE) across all 50 states and U.S. territories. |