Audrey represents an unpretentious, bold voice that regularly asks us to examine the activities, efforts, legislation, that affect education under the banner of reform and innovation. Her blog @ Hack Education affords little reverence to existing power-agents be they Gates Foundation, Education Publishers like Pearson, or the USDOE when their professed initiatives work to diminish the efficacy of teachers or their students. In turn, she is quick to point out those that have worked to progress the healthy evolution of education and as such, her perspective is regularly called upon by all of the above as part of their panels, forums, and events.
Her grounded, critical approach to education reform is received so readily across multiple, diverse communities and is easily summed up by her own self-description: education writer, rabble-rouser, rambler, recovering academic, lifelong learner, serial dropout, part-time badass, mom.