Dr. Katie Hern is an English Instructor at Skyline College and Co-Founder of the California Acceleration Project (CAP). CAP’s professional development programs support the state’s 115 community colleges to use high school grades for placement, replace stand-alone remedial courses with corequisite models, implement math pathways, and teach with high-challenge, high-support pedagogy. In 2016, the Washington Monthly named Dr. Hern and CAP co-founder Myra Snell to their list of the “16 Most Innovative People in Higher Education.” Dr. Hern’s most recent publication Getting There focuses on the implementation of AB 705 across California. She has published 20 articles, book chapters, and reports focus on integrated reading and writing pedagogy, California remediation reform, the need to transform placement policies, design principles for accelerated curricula, and the equity imperative of overhauling remediation. She also co-authored a book with her birthmother, Reunion: A Year in Letters between a Birthmother and the Daughter She Couldn’t Keep (Seal Press, 1999). Dr. Hern holds a doctorate and master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Mills College, a master’s degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from New York University. Her past roles include serving as an English faculty member at Chabot College, Co-Director of California’s Faculty Inquiry Network, and Dean of Academic Affairs at John F. Kennedy University.