Gordon Freedman
Chair, Founder

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Freedman served as VP, Global Education Strategy for eLearning leader Blackboard, Inc. from 2005 until 2012. In this position, he visited 18 countries and met with numerous leaders in government, higher educations, schools, research institutes and related associations. He also helped create, as well as led, the Blackboard Institute, which concentrated on K-through-College progression in…Read more…
Richard Rasiej
Math Division Director, Board of Directors
Richard Rasiej is a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education where he works on both finding ways to improve the quality of K-5 math instruction, and also to help produce better outcomes for students in math at the community college and undergraduate level. He also currently teaches at…Read more…
Veronica Garcia, Ed.D.
NLET Board of Directors
Dr. Veronica Garcia has 24 years of experience in higher education and has worked in both public and private, 2-year and 4-year institutions, in Arizona, California, and Texas with a focus on serving underrepresented student populations. Dr. Garcia has worked in various roles in Enrollment Management, Student Services and Academic Operations over the years and…Read more…
Norman “Storm” Robinson III, Ph.D.
NLET Board of Directors, STEM, Equity and Impact
Storm is the Associate Director of School and Community Engagement at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC). He is the former Interim President and CEO/Chief Innovation and Education Officer at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy where he provided executive leadership and vision in the areas of Educator…Read more…
Ed Stanford
NLET Vice Chair, Board of Directors, former Chairman of the Board
Ed Stanford has spent over 40 years in educational publishing. He was president of two of the three largest higher education publisher for over twenty years. He was president of what was then the Prentice Hall College Division (now Pearson) from 1984-1994. From 1994-1997, he was president of St. Martin’s College Division as it was…Read more…
Francisco J. Hernandez, Ph.D.
NLET Board Chair Emeritus
Dr. Hernandez received his MA and Ph.D. (1980) from Stanford University’s School of Education where he specialized in the History of Education. He received his B.A. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and an Associate in Arts Degree from Sierra Junior College in Rocklin, California in 1968. Dr. Hernandez was…Read more…
David Andrews, Ph.D.
President, Board Member Ex-Officio
David Andrews serves as both Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Global and President of NLET. Andrews is a lifelong educator committed to equity and access through personalized, student-centric approaches. Prior to joining NLET, he served as President of National University, California’s second-largest, private non-profit university. During his five-year term as President, National University substantially improved…Read more…