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Sharon Choa is an accomplished conductor, musicologist and educator. She was born and bred in Hong Kong, educated at St. Paul’s Co-educational College before being accepted by the Royal Academy of Music in London as a violinist to study under the great quartet leader Sidney Griller. Since then, she has worked professionally in the U.K. until 2014 when she was offered the position as Dean of the School of Music at the HK Academy for Performing Arts. In that same year, Sharon was given the Music Award under the Norfolk Arts Award scheme for her services in music, and the A.R.A.M. in recognition of her work as performer and educator.

Larry Rosenstock is CEO and founding principal of High Tech High, a network of sixteen K-12 public charter schools in California, and is the Special Advisor to the President of the HTH Graduate School of Education. Larry taught carpentry in urban high schools in Boston and Cambridge and was principal of the Rindge School of Technical Arts, and of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.  A member of the Massachusetts and U.S. Supreme Court Bars, he served as an attorney at the Harvard Center for Law and Education, and was an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at the University Of California at Berkeley. He directed the federal New Urban High School Project. Larry and his work have been featured on Oprah, Lehrer, Newsweek, and Forbes. He is a winner of the Ford Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award, is an Ashoka Fellow, was awarded the McGraw Prize in Education and is the 2019 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Laureate.

Orly Friedman is the Founder of Red Bridge School, a new K-8 school in San Francisco with a mission to develop a sense of agency in every child as the foundation for academic and life success. Earlier in her career, Orly spent five years teaching elementary school in Washington DC. She moved to California to get her MBA at Stanford, after which she joined the founding team of Khan Lab School and worked there for four years, serving as Head of Lower School and Assistant Head of School. Orly also holds a BA in Urban Studies/Affairs from Yale University and a MA in Early Childhood Education and Teaching from George Mason University.