
A Conference on Impact & Innovation
Future Focused Education hosts the EdUprising Conference annually to engage in authentic, personalized learning about assessment, equity, and developing meaningful partnerships with your community. The panels and workshops focus on high school impact and innovation through graduation profiles, capstones, social-emotional practices, and work-based learning.
The 2023 EdUprising Conference had more than 300 educators, community leaders, and young people attend the two-day affair. Conversations were rooted in the emerging consensus that the high school experience must change. Speaker of the House and Kellogg Fellow Javier Martinez set the stage with his keynote address that called on capstone projects as much more meaningful assessments than standardized tests of what students know and can do.
Authentic, Impactful, Innovative & Student Led!








Rise up, #EdUp!
Speakers from 2023

Maria Rogahn
Assistant Director of Learning by Doing, Capstone Project Manager
Patricia Jiménez-Latham, Ed.D.
Assistant Director of Capstone Communications and Outreach
SOFIA MARRUFO
Master of Social Work Intern & X3 Internship Coach
JULIA BERGKAMP
Master of Social Work Practicum Student
William Mutidjo
Project and Data Systems Manager
Derek Kuit
Operations Manager
Jaime Hernandez
Assistant Director of Workforce Learning
Lucia Duncan
FFE & CIS Alumni and Internship Director
Mary Ann Ga
Cuba High School, Math Teacher
Minea Armijo Romero (ella, she, hers, they)

Katie Avery

Jonathan Barclay

Rebecca Belletto
Teach for America New Mexico, Managing Director
Allen Brauer
Senior Director Initiatives and Programs One Generation.
Tim Hand

Rita Harvey
Partner of Systems Transformation at the Center for Innovation in Education
Julie Jaynes
Work-based Learning Coordinator
Emma Jones
Education Consultant
Natane Lim
Project Manager, Embracing Equity & Co-Founder of Dancing Turtle
Miguel Maizano
Teacher Zuni High School
Regina Vigil

Alicia McClung
Teacher Vista Nueva High School, Aztec, New Mexico
Reeve Mora (sher/her)

Susan Patrick
President and CEO, Aurora Institute
Kimberly Pena-Hansen
Health Leadership High School, Senior Capstone, Instructional Coach
Henry Rael
Director of Strategy and Initiatives, McCune Charitable Foundation of New Mexico
Ronnie Reynolds
Teacher, Robert F. Kennedy Charter School and Future Focused Education Capstone Leader
John Rollinger
Gordon Bernell Charter School
Francisco J Ronquillo, MA, PA
Health Extension Officer under the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Community Health with the Health Science Center at the University of New Mexico.
Laurie Smith
Teacher, Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe , New Mexico
Sommer Smith
Creative Director, MediaDesk
Catherine Szenasi
Teacher, Del Norte High School Albuquerque, New Mexico
Kristen La Volpa (she/her/hers)
Future Focused Education, Community of Practice Coach
Missy Wauneka
Executive Director, Teach For America New Mexico.