www.dashmedia.coBari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020, Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine. Weiss is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. She is also the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times's "star opinion writer." In 2023, Weiss and The Free Press won the Dao Prize for their work on the Twitter Files. Weiss is a proud Pittsburgh native. Her first book, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism," was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. She lives with her wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

Lev Gonick is an educator, technologist, and smart city architect. He has been teaching, working, and living on the Net for more than 25 years.Lev is Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University. Enterprise Technology at ASU leads the design and agile management of all enterprise infrastructure, applications, products, services, and analytics. HE also chairs the Sun Corridor Network, Arizona's Research and Education Network.In 2023, Lev was recognized by the ORBIE Awards as Arizona’s top large Enterprise CIO. In 2022, EdScoop named him among the Top 50 Educational Technology influencers and leaders.Before joining ASU in 2017, Lev was co-founder and CEO of DigitalC, the award-winning non-profit organization enabling and celebrating innovation, collaboration, and productivity through next-generation broadband networks, big open data solutions, and IoT for public benefit.Lev was CIO at Case Western Reserve University from 2001-2013. He and his colleagues were internationally recognized for technology innovations in community engagement, learning spaces, and next-generation network projects. Lev's innovations, including the Case Connection Zone catalyzed national projects, including US Ignite and Gig.Inside Business Magazine named Lev one of their Power 100 in 2015. In 2011 Government Technology awarded Lev one of their "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation."​ In the same year, Crain's Business Cleveland named Gonick one of its "10 Difference Makers"​ in Northeast Ohio and Broadband Properties honored him with their Cornerstone Award for "using fiber to build an inclusive society and empower individuals."​ In 2010 he received recognition as "Visionary of the Year" from NATOA. Lev has been recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier 100 IT leader and honored by CIO magazine with a CIO 100 Award.

www.dashmedia.coMark Naufel is an innovator, a Professor of Practice, and a tech entrepreneur. During graduate school, Naufel was appointed by the Governor of Arizona to serve on the Arizona Board of Regents. Mark is the Founder of Luminosity, Arizona State University’s ‘Skunkworks’ innovation lab, which engages over 100 interdisciplinary students annually. Naufel’s teams have won two prestigious global innovation challenges, including the XPRIZE in 2020. Naufel has served as the Principal Investigator on R&D efforts for many of the world’s most successful companies, including Adidas, Zoom Technologies, Proctor & Gamble, and Starbucks. Through his consulting firm, Naufel has provided support to over 15 startup companies in various domains. Mark is now the founder of Primer - an AI learning companion. 

www.dashmedia.coMichael B. Horn strives to create a world in which all individuals can build their passions and fulfill their potential through his writing, speaking, and work with a portfolio of education organizations. He is the author of several books, including the recently released From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child; the award-winning Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns; Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools; Choosing College; and Goodnight Box, a children’s story.Michael is the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a non-profit think tank, and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He cohosts the top education podcasts Future U and Class Disrupted. He is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and writes the Substack newsletter The Future of Education. Michael also serves as an executive editor at Education Next, and his work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and NBC. Michael serves on the board and advisory boards of a range of education organizations, including Imagine Worldwide, Minerva University, and Guild Education, and is a venture partner at NextGen Venture Partners.Michael was selected as a 2014 Eisenhower Fellow to study innovation in education in Vietnam and Korea, and Tech&Learning magazine named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Michael holds a BA in history from Yale University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

www.dashmedia.coIn this episode of Ed on the Edge, Michael Moe sits down with Scott Pulsipher. Scott serves as president of nonprofit Western Governors University (WGU), the nation’s first and largest competency-based university, leading all academic, operational, and organizational functions. Pulsipher became President of WGU in 2016 and blends a personal drive for making a difference in the lives of individuals and families through education and a passion for technology-powered innovation. At WGU, he is driving continuous innovation to improve student outcomes by focusing on rapidly advancing curriculum quality, new faculty models, data-driven learning, and an innovative cost model. In 2020, EdTech Digest named him one of the Top 100 Influencers in EdTech. Pulsipher chairs the President’s Forum, a collaborative network of nearly 20 college and university presidents committed to the reinvention of higher education. He also serves as a member of Handshake’s Impact Advisory Board, Trustee for the Committee for Economic Development, and on the board of the American Council on Education. Before WGU, Pulsipher had more than 20 years of leadership experience in technology-based, customer-focused businesses, including Amazon, Sterling Commerce (now part of IBM), and two successful startups that traverse retail, supply chain, banking, payments, and manufacturing sectors. Pulsipher holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard University.

In this episode of Ed on the Edge, Michael Moe sits down with Dr. Bridget Burns. Dr.  Burns is a trusted higher education advisor dedicated to improving outcomes for underserved students. As founding CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, she helps universities rapidly implement and scale innovations that have increased the alliance's low-income graduates by 46% and graduates of color by 85% since 2014. Named one of the "16 Most Innovative People in Higher Education," Dr. Burns draws on her extensive experience in Oregon higher education policy and as an ACE Fellow at ASU to transform how institutions support disadvantaged students. Her work has been featured nationally from The New York Times to 60 Minutes for its ability to spread effective solutions through cross-campus collaboration. Passionate about equity in education, Dr. Burns wants to shift the culture to be more courageous in openly addressing failures so we can collectively redesign the student experience.

In this episode of Ed on the Edge, Michael Moe sits down with Chris Whittle.Chris Whittle is a pioneering education entrepreneur who has founded multiple influential companies over his career. As CEO of Whittle Communications in the 1980s, he grew it into a major media firm. Whittle founded Channel One, a national in-school television news program first anchored by Anderson Cooper, which reached eight million students daily in 12,000 schools. In 1992, Whittle founded Edison Schools and helped launch the charter school movement by opening over 100 schools serving 60,000 students. He later founded Avenues: The World School in New York City in 2012, which became one of the city's largest private schools. In 2015, Whittle founded Whittle School & Studios with the vision of creating a global system of private schools. As Executive Chairman of Baret Scholars, Whittle's most recent venture offers a global gap year for students transitioning from high school to college. Through his various education ventures, Whittle has aimed to innovate and transform K-12 schooling. He is an influential figure in bringing business principles and models to education reform.

In this episode of Ed on the Edge, Michael Moe sits down with Tom Vander Ark.Tom is an advocate for better learning for everyone. As the CEO of Getting Smart, he provides advisory services to schools, districts, networks, foundations, and learning organizations, guiding them on the path forward. With a portfolio of over 50 books and papers, including notable works like "Getting Smart," "Smart Cities," "Smart Parents," "Better Together," and "The Power of Place," Tom has established himself as a prolific author and co-author. He brings valuable experience as a former public school superintendent and the first Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Tom's dedication to education is evident through his involvement on the boards of nonprofits such as Education Board Partners, 4.0 Schools, Digital Learning Institute, eduInnovation, and his advisory roles with One Stone, Teton Science Schools, Whittle School & Studios, and the Mastery Transcript Consortium.

In this episode of Ed on the Edge, Michael Moe sits down with John Katzman. John Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle. Prior to Noodle, he founded and ran 2U, which is also involved in online learning, and The Princeton Review, which helps students find, get into, and pay for higher ed.‍Katzman is the co-author of five books, and has served as a director of several for- and non-profits, including Carnegie Learning, Renaissance Learning, the National Association of Independent Schools, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools.‍

In this episode of Ed on the Edge, Michael Moe sits down with Jon Hage. Jon is one of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs committed to improving education. He founded Charter Schools USA in 1997 and as CEO, built it into one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. with 10,000 team members educating 83,000+ students in over 150 schools throughout the United States. Jon worked with then-Governor Jeb Bush to write charter school laws that ultimately served as the blueprint that much of the country would use in the decades that followed. With a commitment to putting students first, Jon was named the 2013 Floridian of the Year by Florida Trend magazine. An Army veteran, Mr. Hage served in the U.S. Special Forces/Green Berets and holds degrees from the University of Colorado and Georgetown University.