Kevin has been an 8th grade math teacher in southwest Michigan for over 25 years.  Kevin is the co-author of Productive Math Struggle. He also conducts many professional development sessions throughout the United States on the use of manipulatives in the math classroom to develop a conceptual understanding of the math.  Kevin served on the Board of Directors for NCTM from 2016-2019 and is currently President-Elect for this school year before becoming President in October 2022.  

He was awarded the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Director's Award in 2007 for outstanding contribution and leadership in mathematics education as well as the Service Award in 2014 and has served as a regional director for the organization.  He was the annual conference chair for the organization from 2011-2016 as well as co-founded and co-chaired since 2015 for a conference focused on mathematics for students with disabilities.  Kevin was a 2017 state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.  He received an Alumni Achievement Award from Western Michigan University in 2019.

Chip Heath is the co-author of the forthcoming Making Numbers Count.  He is the co-author (along with his brother, Dan) of four best-selling books: The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact , Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life and Work, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, and their first book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, which was an Amazon Top 10 Business Book for both editors and readers. Their books have been translated into over 30 languages including Thai, Arabic, and Lithuanian. 

Chip is currently a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and, most recently, the Heath brothers released their third best-seller, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work.

Nicole M. Joseph is an associate professor with tenure of mathematics education in the department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University. She is also the Director of the Joseph Mathematics Education Research Lab (JMEL) which trains undergraduate and graduate students in Black Feminist and Intersectionality epistemological orientations producing theoretical and methodological practices that challenge hegemonic notions of objectivity to emphasize humanizing, empowering, and transformative research. 

Dr. Joseph’s research explores two lines of inquiry, (a) Black women and girls, their identity development, and their experiences in mathematics and (b) gendered anti-blackness, whiteness, white supremacy and how these systems of oppression shape Black girls’ and women’s underrepresentation and retention in mathematics across the pipeline. Her scholarship has been published in top-tiered journals such as Educational Researcher, Review of Educational Research, Teachers College Record, Harvard Education Review, and the Journal of Negro Education. 

Her activist work includes founding the March for Black Women in STEM, an event held every fall that seeks to bring together communities to raise awareness about issues Black women and girls face in STEM learning, education, and industry. Her new grant Measuring Inclusive Constructs of Mathematics Identity (MICMI) starts with Black girls as they identify the intersectional assets needed for more effective math learning that transcend a physical space or curriculum. 

Zalman Usiskin is a professor emeritus of education at the University of Chicago, where he was an active faculty member from 1969 through 2007. In 1983 he helped initiate the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) and he served as its overall director from 1987 until June of 2019.  He is the author or co-author of over 150 articles and other papers on mathematics and mathematics education, dozens of books and book-length research monographs, including textbooks and their teachers’ editions for grades 7-12 and a college-level mathematics text for teachers.  In 2014, NCTM published a book containing 38 of his talks and articles, the first time the organization published a collection of writings of one person.  He received the Glenn Gilbert Award (now the Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award) from NCSM in 1994, a Lifetime Achievement Award from NCTM in 2001, and the ISDDE Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the International Society for Design and Development in Education in 2018.  Zal has been the banquet speaker, singing and presenting at the piano twice for NCTM annual meetings, but the first time collaborating with Andy Chukerman. 

José Luis Vilson is a veteran educator, writer, speaker, and activist in New York City, NY. He is the author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education. He has spoken about education, math, and race for a number of organizations and publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian, TED, El Diario / La Prensa, and The Atlantic.

He's a National Board Certified Teacher, a Math for America Master Teacher, and the executive director of EduColor, an organization dedicated to race and social justice issues in education. He is currently a doctoral student studying sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is now on the board of directors for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards and PowerMyLearning.

Trena Wilkerson is a mathematics education professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She taught high school mathematics for 18 years. She is the current NCTM President and has published in several of NCTM’s journals, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Mathematics Teacher, Teaching Children Mathematics, and Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, chaired the MTMS Editorial Panel and served on the NCTM Board of Directors. She loves teaching and learning mathematics in support of current and future mathematics teachers and leaders!