The 2027 Roots to Routes Planning Team

We are honored to have a team of highly respected and accomplished
leaders from across the nation who know independent schools well
leading the planning for our 2027 experience.
Dr. Rodney Glasgow, The Glasgow Group; Friends Council on Education - Conference Director

Oscar Gonzalez, Graland Country Day School - Director of Conference Logistics

Toni Graves Williamson, Friends Select School - National Planning Team Chair

Dr. Rohan Arjun, Friends Select School
Rafhia Foster, Shipley School
Denny Gonzalez, DG Strategies
Shamika Thompson, Key School
Cyreeta Williams, Calthorp School
Rachel Fleming, Madison Country Day School
Loris Adams, BMB Coaching & Consulting
Kristin Elliott, St. Alban's School
Robert Churchwell, St. Christopher's School
Candice Ashton, Sandy Spring Friends School
Sheri Rider Jobe, Educational Consultant
Kelly Yiadom, Westtown School
Tiffany Butler, National Cathedral School
Maxime Sinal, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Nicole Lee, Esq., Lee Bayard LLC
Dr. Tranae Robinson, Franklin Road Academy
Diane Nichols, Bryn Mawr School
Rachel Williams, George School
Dr. Angelina Arrington, The Bishop Walker School for Boys
Sydney Lewis, Newtown Friends School
Stacey-Lee Williams, Citizens Uprooting Racism - Bermuda
Charla Okewole, Germantown Friends School
Racheal Quinn, Seven Hill School
Alejandra Balcazar, Shipley School
Roots to Routes is a community-built experience—visioned, shaped, and stewarded by a dynamic and multifaceted group of educators, practitioners, and leaders from across the country. Together, these individuals bring a wide range of identities, roles, perspectives, and experiences, all grounded in a shared commitment to justice, belonging, and collective well-being in independent schools.
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We are excited to call forward so many extraordinary professionals working in partnership to create a signature experience for the 2027 Roots to Routes conference. Their insight, creativity, and care are helping to build not just a conference, but a centering space rooted in shared purpose and belonging.
Roots to Routes: A Call Forward is a groundbreaking national conference designed for independent school K-12 educators and administrators, and high school students to engage in bold learning, transformative dialogue, deep reflection on self, school, and society, and skill-building for strategic change. Rooted in the principles of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging, this intergenerational gathering offers powerful programming and unique experiences that center the voices and well-being of those most often marginalized. Guided by committees of dynamic practitioners from independent schools across the country, Roots to Routes creates space to reimagine education—and move ourselves and our schools forward.