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Newly Appointed CLEAR Chief Educational Justice Officer

CLEAR is excited to announce that Mary Lang has been named the Chief Education Justice Officer (CEJO) for the organization.

Mary Lang is the first Chief Education Justice Officer at the Center for Leadership, Equity and Research (CLEAR).  She focuses on the education and social justice implications of emerging technologies in K-12 education, working to amplify the voices and participation of underserved students across the AI ecosystem. She is particularly interested in the epistemic implications of AI in K-12 education. Her first focus will be building the new social justice-centered CLEAR Artificial Intelligence Initiative (CAI) to serve a diverse society today and create a just future for everyone.

Mary is an inaugural AI Fellow, for the EdSAFE AI Alliance, and a social justice futurist, who brings experience and research in socio-technical transformations, Artificial Intelligence (AI),  teaching,  administration, academic program and faculty development, data, creativity, and courage at critical junctures, to help build mission-focused initiatives to scale progress in education.

At Stanford University, Mary co-created an inaugural leadership communication initiative for a new critical, analytical thinking curriculum as part of a re-envisioned MBA program at the graduate school of business, teaching workshops and courses for eight years. At the California State University, Los Angeles, she taught organizational dynamics, and at UCLA, she served as a Faculty Development Consultant.

At the Los Angeles County Office of Education, Mary served as the first Officer of Organizational Change Management where she spotted what’s next, then focused priorities, to bring people along so they could adapt and thrive in new environments during innovation and digital transformations.  She built and led the agency’s inaugural Equity and Social Justice Task Force, built and led the data element of the Executive Cabinet’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Team, and introduced AI to the agency’s organizational change ecosystem.