From Experience to Insight: State Chiefs on System Leadership | ASU+GSV Summit 2027

Angélica Infante-Green (Commissioner of Education, Rhode Island Department of Education) joins Aimee Guidera (Former Secretary of Education, Virginia), Deborah Gist (Superintendent-in-Residence, Transcend), and Dr. Christina Grant (Executive Director, Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University) at the ASU+GSV Summit 2027 in From Experience to Insight: State Chiefs on System Leadership to discuss lessons from leading complex state education systems and advancing system-level change.

This session brings together education leaders whose experience spans state agencies, major urban systems, national policy, and research institutions. Across roles in Virginia, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., and beyond, these speakers have led work in accountability, academic recovery, data-driven decision-making, instructional improvement, and long-term system transformation. Their conversation reflects on what it takes to lead public education systems through challenge, change, and opportunity.