REGISTER NOW: Lifelong educator John King will discuss education in the COVID era – and how to stand up to far-right attacks on education surrounding Critical Race Theory. He credits public school teachers for preventing his life from going off the rails, even after being expelled from high school.

Currently a candidate for Governor of Maryland, John B. King Jr. leads an education civil rights organization and is also a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He served as President Obama’s U.S. Secretary of Education and was the first Afro-Latino to hold that important office. REGISTER NOW