Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University
Course: Our Declaration: “We the People” and the Declaration of Independence

Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Director of the Democratic Knowledge Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was a lead author on the Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy, a framework for securing excellence in history and civic education for all learners, K-12, released in 2021. In her book Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Liveright, 2015), she reflects on personal teaching experience, history, and political philosophy to draw lessons for today about citizenship, freedom, equality, and constitutional democracy. She holds a Ph.D. and MA in government from Harvard University and Ph.D. and MA in classics from King’s College, University of Cambridge.

Myisha Eatmon

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of History, Harvard University
Course: A More Complete American Story: The History of Jim Crow

Myisha Eatmon is an Assistant Professor in African and African American Studies and History at Harvard University. She is the author of “Jim Crow Then, Jim Crow Now: Police Violence, Tort Law, and Black Resistance in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,” in The Civil War Era and the Summer of 2020: Race, Violence, Resistance and Memory in the United States, ed. Hilary Green and Andrew Slap. Dr. Eatmon is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled, Litigating in Black and White: Black Legal Culture, White Violence, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies, which explores how Black people challenged white violence during Jim Crow. She holds a Ph.D. in United States, African American, and legal history and an MA in United States history from Northwestern University.

Tina Eliassi-Rad

Professor and Inaugural Joseph E. Aoun Chair, Northeastern University
Course: Digital Competency in the Age of AI

Tina Eliassi-Rad is a professor of computer science at Northeastern University and External faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. She is a core faculty member at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute and the director of RADLAB. Her research is rooted in data mining and machine learning, and her work spans theory, algorithms, and applications of big data from networked representations of physical and social phenomena. She has ongoing grants and projects related to complex networks, machine learning, and data mining. Tina was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021 and received the Lagrange Prize-CRT Foundation in 2023. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kathryn Gabriele

Project Manager, Democratic Knowledge Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Course: Student-led Civics Projects: Using Project-based Learning to Develop Civic Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions

Kathryn Gabriele is a project manager at the Democratic Knowledge Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She taught high school social studies and Spanish in Ohio for six years before serving from 2019 - 2021 as an instructional designer for Facing History and Ourselves, an organization supporting a global network of educators to prepare students to participate in civic life—using intellect, empathy, ethics, and choice to stand up to bigotry and hate in their own lives, communities, and schools. From 2021 to 2024, she was a History and Social Science Content Support Specialist for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). At DESE, she has collaborated with Project Zero and the Democratic Knowledge Project, both research efforts at HGSE, to train teachers and prepare them to implement student-led civics projects. She holds an MA in educational leadership and policy from the University of Michigan and a MPA from Suffolk University.

Dimitrios Halikias

Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Society of Fellows
Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida (starting Fall 2026)
Course: Securing the “Blessings of Liberty”: The U.S. Constitution

Dimitrios Halikias holds a postdoctoral fellowship with the Princeton University Society of Fellows and will be Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida starting in Fall 2026. While completing his doctoral work at Harvard University, he helped to create the Democratic Knowledge Project’s 8th grade civics curriculum. Prior to beginning graduate school, he worked as an economics research assistant at the Brookings Institution. His articles on political thought from the 18th century to the present have appeared in Historical Journal, History of Political Thought, and Review of Politics. Dimitrios holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.

Meira Levinson

Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education 
Course: Difficult Conversations in the Classroom

Meira Levinson is the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She is a normative political philosopher who works at the intersection of civic education, youth empowerment, racial justice, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools. She is the founder and faculty director of the EdEthics/Justice in Schools initiative at HGSE. Levinson’s most recent books include Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics (2019, with Jacob Fay), Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries (2016, with Jacob Fay), and Making Civics Count (2012, with David Campbell and Frederick Hess). She holds a Ph.D. in politics from Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Fredrik Logevall

Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of History, Harvard University
Course: Superpower: The U.S. and the Vietnam War

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of History, Harvard University. A specialist on U.S. foreign relations history and modern international history, he is the author or editor of ten books, most recently JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020). His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House, 2012), won several prizes including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize. His other recent works include a college-level textbook A People and A Nation: A History of the United States (with Jane Kamensky et al; 11th ed., Cengage, 2018). A native of Stockholm, Sweden, Logevall holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. 

Sara O’Brien

Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy, EdEthics, Harvard Graduate School of Education 
Course: Difficult Conversations in the Classroom

Sara O’Brien is the Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy for the EdEthics initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. In this role, she creates pedagogical tools that help educators, school and district leaders, and policymakers think through challenging ethical questions in education. She has written or co-written over a dozen normative case studies and co-edited two forthcoming international volumes of case studies and case conversations. Prior to her work with EdEthics, Sara taught in public and independent secondary schools in Massachusetts and California. She holds an MA in education from Stanford University and an MA in instructional leadership from Harvard University.

Diana Schaub

Professor Emerita of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland
Course: A New Birth of Freedom: The Gettysburg Address

Diana Schaub is professor emerita of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland and a non-resident Senior Scholar in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute. A member of the Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, she also sits on the publication committee of National Affairs. She is an Academic Advisory Council Member and Founding Civics Initiative Faculty at the Jack Miller Center. She is the author of numerous book chapters and scholarly articles in the fields of political philosophy and American political thought. She is a co-editor (with Amy and Leon Kass) of What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (ISI Books, 2013). Her book on Lincoln’s rhetoric and statesmanship, His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, appeared in 2021 from St. Martin’s Press. She holds a Ph.D. and MA in political science from the University of Chicago. 

Natacha Scott

Director of Educator Engagement, iCivics
Course: Making History and Civic Learning Meaningful: Using  the “Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy” to Engage Students in Deeper Civic Learning

As the Director of Educator Engagement for iCivics, Natacha Scott focuses on growing the engagement of educators in-person and virtually through professional development sessions, curriculum, and other experiences. Prior to joining iCivics, Natacha worked with the Boston Public Schools for 14 years serving in several roles from elementary classroom teacher to the district K-12 Director for History and Social Studies. She serves as a Steering Committee member and Educator Workshop Lead for the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap project and is a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University, facilitating a course on history and social studies pedagogy. She holds an MA in teaching from Northeastern University. 

Jack Miller Center

Course: A New Birth of Freedom: The Gettysburg Address

The Jack Miller Center (JMC) worked closely with Diana Schaub to develop the “A New Birth of Freedom: The Gettysburg Address.” JMC is a Philadelphia-based educational nonprofit focused on helping educators teach the ideas, documents, and history that lie at the heart of the American political tradition. The Center supports and cultivates a diverse, national civics coalition of scholars, K-12 educators, and civic education leaders to revive America’s founding principles and history for millions of students nationwide. The Center provides professional development offerings, resources, and tools for educators dedicated to teaching America’s founding principles and history, and provides civic education that is: grounded in our country’s founding documents, ideals, and history; free from partisan ideology; respectful of free inquiry and civil discourse; and, a foundational part of education at every level—from elementary school to college, and beyond.