Meet The Future 50 Education Innovators Transforming The Dallas-Fort Worth Region!

1. Richard Margolin is the founder and CEO of RoboKind, an education technology company that designs and builds facially expressive robots to facilitate learning for individuals with autism.

2. RoboKind research shows that students on the autism spectrum engage 87.5% of the time with their robots, compared to 2%-3% with a human therapist alone.

3. James Henningson is the outgoing president of the Dallas Makerspace, a public, member-driven makerspace located in Carrollton with 1,400 members and 18 labs.

4. Ben Magill is the Associate Vice Chancellor of Economic Opportunity at Dallas College and recently secured an $8.8 million grant from the US Economic Development Administration’s Good Job Challenge.

5. Amanda Dudley is the Executive Director of the Principal Impact Collaborative at UNT Dallas, which aims to improve public school outcomes and address high rates of principal turnover. Luke Hejl is the co-founder and CEO of TimelyMD, a virtual platform providing on-demand medical and mental health care to college students. Karen Meadows is the director of the Simulation Center at UNTHSC, turning a training space into a reality.