Members of the 2011 PEN National Conference Planning Committee were the following:

Scott Van Beck, Co-Chair
Houston A+ Challenge
Executive Director
2700 Southwest Freeway
Suite B
Houston, TX  77098-4607
Tel: (713) 313-5271
svanbeck@houstonaplus.org

Linda Croushore, Co-Chair
Executive Director
The Consortium for Public Education
410 Ninth Street
McKeesport, PA 15132
Tel:  (412) 678-9215
Email:  lcroushore@tcfpe.org

Barnett Berry
Center for Teaching Quality
605 W. Main Street, Suite 206
Carrboro, NC 27510
Tel: (919) 913-3000
Email: bberry@teachingquality.org

Ronald (Ron) Cowell
The Education Policy & Leadership Center
800 North Third Street, Suite 408
Harrisburg, PA 17102
Tel: (717) 260-9900
Email:  cowell@eplc.org

Audrey Bracey Deegan
OMG- Center for Collaborative Learning
Managing Director
1050 Connecticut Ave.
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 525-0780
Email: audrey@omgcenter.org

Karen Demorest
Alliance for Education
509 Olive Way, Suite 500
Seattle, WA  98101-2557
Tel:  (206) 205-0333
Email: Karen@alliance4ed.org

Carey Harris
Executive Director
A+ Schools-Pittsburgh
1901 Center Avenue
Suite 302A
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Tel: (412) 697-1298, ext 102
Email: charris@aplusschools.org

Shane Harris
Prudential Foundation
751 Broad Street, 15th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
Tel: (973) 802-7313
Email: shane.harris@prudential.com

Jeremiah Newell
Mobile Area Ed Foundation
55 Midtown Park East
Mobile, AL  36606
Tel: (241) 476-0002
Cell: (251) 391-1272
Email: jnewell@maef.net

Chris Swanson
Vice President, Editorial Projects in Education, AEE
Director, EPE Research Center
Alliance for Excellent Education
1201 Connecticut Ave., Suite 901
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-828-0828
Email: cswanson@epe.org

Marla Ucelli-Kashyap
Assistant to the President for Educational Issues
Educational Issues Dept.
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
555 New Jersey Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: (202) 393-8636
Email: mucelli@aft.org