Big Ideas Fest Speakers

Yvonne Chan

Yvonne Chan

Chan pushes the limits of education and social reform with accelerated English learning, longer school day and longer school year, interagency services, career-tech education, university professional development center, teacher peer-review and performance pay systems. As the founder of the first conversion charter school in the nation, she helped turned gang territories to college prep laboratories, provided construction jobs and stimulated economic growth in a high-poverty neighborhood. In addition to being a school principal, Chan is also an adjunct professor at UCLA, a member of the California State Board of Education, and a Commissioner of the Los Angeles City Commission for Children Youth and Families.