We’re excited to recognize NACSA’s 2025 Change Makers—individuals whose leadership and dedication are helping to move authorizing forward. From improving systems and policies to supporting schools and students on the ground, these Change Makers exemplify what it means to lead with purpose and impact. Congratulations to our 2025 Change Makers:

• Talia Gerstle
  Senior Policy and Communications Manager, BluePrint Labs
• Dr. Richard Seigler-Carter
  Managing Director, LeveragED Foundation
• Raj Thakkar
  Founder & CEO, Charter School Business Management
• Robin Lake
  Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
• Colleston Morgan, Jr.
  Executive Director, City Forward Collective

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Dive deep into NACSA's recently released 2025 State Policy Recommendations with Veronica Brooks-Uy, NACSA's Senior Vice President of Strategy, Policy & Research.

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This episode takes you inside NACSACon 2025, where NACSA President and CEO Dr. Karega Rausch delivered powerful remarks about why strong foundational authorizing policies and practices have never been more important. It also features a special collaboration with our friends at the Charter School Growth Fund. CSGF President and host of the Leader to Leader podcast, Darryl Cobb, sits down with Dr. Adriana Tamez to discuss what it takes to build and sustain great public schools.

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