From growing up on a ranch in southern Oregon and never flying on an airplane until I was 18 to leave for college in the Midwest, to now traveling the country and the world as an educator whose main role is to teach teachers, I truly love what I do. With a solid background in physics and nearly a decade of classroom teaching experience, I served as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow for two years focused on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Literacy Initiative. From there, I returned to Tucson, Arizona and built The STEMAZing Project over the last decade and now find myself working as the Chief Learning Officer for the Waters Center for Systems Thinking. In this role, I find myself collaborating with educators as we find meaningful ways to use the Habits and tools of systems thinking to empower students with the sensemaking skills they need to understand, model, and improve the systems all around them and the systems they are in.

Dr. Michele Wilson has dedicated over 38 years to public education in Arizona and now works as an educational consultant and CEO of Michele Jo Wilson Educational Consulting, LLC. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Madison School District (MSD) and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction at Tolleson Union High School District (TUHSD). Her extensive career includes roles as an elementary teacher, instructional specialist, high school assistant principal, high school principal, and special education director.

Dr. Wilson earned her doctorate in Leadership and Innovation from Arizona State University in 2011. She is a Rodel Exemplary Principal Finalist, a Beat the Odds Gold Award recipient, and an ISTE Certified Educator (2023). She has also contributed as the Secondary Schools Co-chair for the Greater Phoenix Education Management Council. Dr. Wilson currently serves on the boards of the Madison Education Foundation and the Arizona Technology in Education Association.

Luke is the Director of Innovative Solutions for the Agua Fria Union High School District. His role is to support new technology projects, create innovative solutions for problems, and share those novel solutions between different schools. Luke feels that both staff and student instruction should use the lens of "how would I actually use this", and that staff should reach out whenever they think "there has to be a better way to..." Lately he has spent a lot of time talking within the district and across the state about how AI is transforming work, learning, and assessment.

Luke has been honored to be a board member of AzTEA, a member of the COSN Advisory board, member of the COSN EdTech Innovation Committee, and is a CETL.