Speakers
Lisa Graham Keegan
Founder and president, Education Breakthrough Network
Lisa Graham Keegan is founder and president of the Education Breakthrough Network, an online community and nationwide resource for school choice. She is also the principal partner at the Keegan Company, where she consults, writes, and speaks on critical issues in American education. Ms. Keegan was an education advisor and spokesperson for the McCain 2008 campaign and recently co-authored the education chapter for Newt Gingrich’s 2010 best-seller To Save America. Ms. Keegan was previously CEO of the Education Leaders Council in Washington, D.C. Prior to this, she spent a decade serving as an Arizona state official, where she led the state’s education reform movement and authored much of Arizona’s education reform legislation in the early 1990s. Ms. Keegan received the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation Award for Leadership in Educational Choice and was recognized by the National Republican Women Leaders Forum as Educator of the Year in 1999. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Newsweek, Forbes, and Education Week. She has appeared on NPR, PBS’ News Hour, the Fox News Channel, and CNBC. Ms. Keegan graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in human language, and she earned a master’s degree in communications disorders from Arizona State University.
