ron bogle, founder & ceo
A native of Oklahoma City, Ron started his career in education, serving as the President of the Oklahoma City Board of Education for ten years before becoming the President and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation, a position he held for 16 years.
At the Foundation, Ron launched Design for Learning, and with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, worked directly with school districts across the country to examine how the learning environment can be reimagined to support personalized learning and improved student achievement.
ashley flores
Ashley Flores is a Senior Director at the Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL), a nonprofit organization committed to cutting child poverty in Dallas in half within 20 years. In her role, Ashley is focused on housing as it relates to poverty and is intent on ensuring that all families have access to housing that is healthy and safe, affordable, stable, and in a thriving community.
Prior to CPAL, Ashley was as an education strategist at global architecture firm HKS where she worked to elevate the impact of the built environment for K-12 district and higher education clients. She also served as the Director of Planning and Special Projects at the Dallas Independent School District, championing and operationalizing the district’s work in innovative school design and personalized learning as well as low-performing school turnaround. Ashley earned degrees in business administration and liberal arts from The University of Texas at Austin and in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Ted Landsmark
Ted Landsmark is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. He holds a Ph.D. in American and New England Studies from Boston University, and professional degrees in Law, and Environmental Design from Yale University.
His research and practice interests include diversity in design, environmental design, design education, higher education administration, community-based economic development, historic preservation, and African American art and artisanry.