About Our Panelists

• MacKenzie Price

  

  MacKenzie Price is the co-founder of Alpha School, a Stanford graduate in Psychology, and the host of the Future of Education podcast. She created her first school after her daughters said what too many kids feel: “School is boring.” That moment sparked what has become a national movement to redesign the school day to help kids thrive. With more than 250M views on her Future of Education Instagram, she is showing people around the world how kids can love school, learn faster in a fraction of the time, and develop life skills.

  MacKenzie’s AI-powered, personalized, mastery-based model helps students crush core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for learning critical life skills, passion projects, and deep personal growth. Today, Alpha classes score in the top 1–2% nationally, and more than 95% say they love school. Momentum is building for this fresh, forward-thinking approach, and it is now offered in a diverse range of schools coast to coast.

  Based in Austin, Texas, MacKenzie is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and an advisor to the University of Austin. 
  
  Visit alpha.school and thefutureofeducation.org to learn more.

• David Yeager, Ph.D.

  David Yeager, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the cofounder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute. He is best known for his research conducted with Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, and Greg Walton on short but powerful interventions that influence adolescent behaviors such as motivation, engagement, healthy eating, bullying, stress, mental health, and more. 

  He has consulted for Google, Microsoft, Disney, and the World Bank, as well as for the White House and the governments in California, Texas, and Norway. His research has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, CNN, Fox News, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and more. 

  Clarivate Web of Science ranks Yeager as one of the top 0.1% most-influential psychologists in the world over the past decade. Prior to his career as a scientist, he was a middle school teacher and a basketball coach. He earned his PhD and MA at Stanford University and his BA and MEd at the University of Notre Dame. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and their four children.