Jana Luft (Oakland, CA) – Jana is a White mother of two girls, the older of whom attends their local global majority, Title 1 school. A former high school special education teacher, Jana became aware of resource hoarding and the challenge progressive White parents often pose to education equity; she started listening to the Integrated Schools podcast and attending local chapter meetings when her oldest daughter was in preschool. She has worked in education philanthropy, research, and advocacy to support education justice and has helped develop organizational best practices to create a culture in which staff and volunteers feel seen, included, and appreciated as full human beings.

Betsy Prueter (Atlanta, GA) – Betsy is the Senior Director of Programming for a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that provides professional development for federal policymakers, thinkers, and researchers who are working on higher education issues, which she helped to establish in 2015. She brings extensive grant writing, fundraising, and finance experience, as well as deep expertise in community partnerships, DEI, program evaluation, and board development. Betsy is also a White mom sending her children to public school in Atlanta. She first connected with Integrated Schools in 2018, and has been facilitating monthly community-wide public meetings to engage with parents and encourage them to consider and opt into their neighborhood public school.

Mike Teng (Mountain View, CA) – Mike grew up in Massachusetts and Silicon Valley, the child of immigrants from Taiwan. He has experienced his family being the only people of color in a mostly White New England town (and school), and now sends his own mixed-race children to their global majority neighborhood school. His background is in technology, but he was drawn to the field of public education in 2009, seeing it as an important lever for social change. After a stint with a charter school organization, he started Swing Education, a company that coordinates providing substitute teachers to schools and districts across seven states, with a tech workforce that is majority people of color. He is interested in helping IS grow and measure its impact.

Valerie Lord (Los Angeles, CA) – Valerie is a White mom of two, the older of whom attends their neighborhood global majority public school. Valerie grew up in Houston and lived in New York before moving to Los Angeles 12 years ago. She has served as the Executive Director for two small nonprofits and the Development Director for two mid-sized organizations, all focused on youth-oriented initiatives. As Managing Director at Envision Consulting she has collaborated with more than 50 nonprofit organizations, specializing in executive search, strategic planning, and partnership explorations, helping clients create structures that embody their vision and values in practical, meaningful ways.

Jacinda Townsend Gides (Hope, RI) – Jacinda is a novelist, a college professor, and the mother of two. She has thought and written extensively on the topic of school integration, and has been involved in efforts to integrate the schools in her children’s districts. Having graduated from high school a year after this country reached peak school integration in 1987, she has watched America’s relapse into segregated educational spaces both through her children’s school experiences and as a school board member in Indiana and later in Michigan. Heartened by the work of Integrated Schools, she was excited to join the Board in December 2025.

Melissa Moskowitz (New York, NY) – Melissa has been an educator for the NYC Department of Education for over 25 years. Her children attended Park Slope Collegiate, where she now serves as Assistant Principal. In this and other roles she has played in the NYC public school system, Melissa is commited to interrupting/disrupting the status quo line of thinking to create systemic change and model the transformative potential of anti-racist, inclusive schools. She helped to envision and continues to support student advocacy for integration, and brings to Integrated Schools an understanding of the research-based structures and supports that are necessary for real school integration.