PoCC Heads' Summit

• Program
• Pricing
• Speakers

PoCC Heads' Summit Program

• Heads' Summit Location: Colorado Convention Center, Blue Bird Ballroom, 2A (Heads’ Summit meals will be in 2C-D)

Pricing

*Nonmembers: If you are actively applying for NAIS membership, you are eligible to receive the NAIS discounted price. Contact us to learn more.
 

Speakers

Howard Stevenson

Howard Stevenson is a nationally sought expert on how to resolve racial stress and trauma that affect health at every stage of life. His work prepares children and adults to assert themselves during face-to-face microaggressions that undermine academic and work productivity. Stevenson has served for 32 years as a clinical psychologist working in under-resourced rural and urban neighborhoods across the country. His book, Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference, summarizes this work.

Stevenson is the Constance E. Clayton professor of urban education and professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He is executive director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative, a research, program development, and training center that brings together community leaders, researchers, authority figures, families, and youth to study and promote racial literacy and health in schools and neighborhoods. He previously was co-director of Forward Promise, a national philanthropy office that funds community-based organizations that help families of color heal, grow, and thrive above the trauma of historical and present-day dehumanization. Stevenson received the 2020 Gittler Prize from Brandeis University for outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic, and/or religious relations.

Stevenson develops racial socialization-based culturally responsive therapeutic interventions and research to resolve face-to-face racial conflicts and build racial literacy skills for leaders within independent and public K–12 schooling, community mental health centers, teachers, police, parents, and youth. His work has been funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Mental Health and Child Health and Human Development. 

Homa Tavangar

Homa Tavangar is the co-founder of the Oneness Lab, where she helps schools and companies go "deeper than diversity," and the Big Questions Institute, where she leads professional learning opportunities to build capacity and design the future with fearless inquiry for individuals, schools, districts, boards and education-related organizations.

She brings 30+ years’ experience helping diverse organizations and individuals to build cultural, racial and global competence, strategic governance, and visionary, generative leadership in diverse schools and organizations. She coaches leaders on accountability for equity, leading through crisis, and advises on strategic design and planning across five continents.

She has co-authored seven books for educators, and is the author of best-selling Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World (Random House) and Global Kids (Barefoot Books). Her most recent publication is 12 Big Questions Schools Must Answer to Create Irresistible Futures with Will Richardson (forthcoming, 2025).

A graduate of UCLA and Princeton, Homa was born in Iran, has lived on four continents, speaks four languages, and has heritage in four world religions. She serves on several boards, including ISS (International Schools Services), and is a judge for the Templeton Prize, considered the “world’s most interesting prize” with a purse calibrated to exceed the Nobel Prize. She is married and the mother of three adult daughters, and resides in Villanova, Pennsylvania.