Our Team

Danielle Allen is a James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She is widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America. Allen is a seasoned nonprofit leader, democracy advocate, tech ethicist, and distinguished author, who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. 

Adrienne Stang is the Director of History and Social Studies for the Cambridge Public Schools (MA) and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She facilitates the creation and implementation of inquiry-based, culturally sustaining social studies curricula, facilitates professional learning, and mentors teachers. She specializes in approaches to teaching racism and other forms of oppression that lead to truth and empowerment. She served on the Educating for American Democracy's Steering Committee and American History Task Force and is a lead author of the Democratic Knowledge Project’s “Expanding Liberty, Equality, and the Suffrage - 1776-1924,” a 5th grade curriculum recognized by MA DESE as a highlighted core material. Prior to joining the Cambridge Public Schools, she taught social studies and history at public high schools in Florida and Massachusetts for eighteen years. Stang was the Democratic Knowledge Project Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics in 2020-21. She holds a MAT in social studies from Brown University and a BA in anthropology and certificate in women’s studies from Princeton University.

Liz Block is the Director of Strategy, Partnerships, and Outreach for the EdEthics initiative, which is housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. EdEthics supports education ecosystems and policymakers to ask important questions about the ethical nature of their work, develop tools and frameworks, and collaborate across differences. In this role, Liz oversees co-constructed professional learning partnerships with schools and districts, centered on engaging educators in ethical reasoning and decision-making of the day-to-day realities in schools. She also supports a growing network of scholars and practitioners in building the field of educational ethics. Prior to this, Liz was a teacher, principal, and school developer for Early Childhood through high school dual-language community schools. She holds a BA in Political Science, a Specialization in International Relations, and a Minor in Latin American Studies from UCLA. She also holds an Ed.M. in Educational Theory (Specialized Studies) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Certification in School Management and Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School.