Professor Steve Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, is a leading educational innovator, award-winning teacher and author, and an authority on families, children, youth and the life course.  He has also published extensively on slavery, social reform, ethnicity and film.

For five years, Steve served as the founding director of the University of Texas Systems Institute for Transformational Learning, which was responsible for designing and testing new educational models and technologies that can make a quality education more accessible, affordable and successful. Steve also served as senior advisor to the president of Hunter College for student success and director of Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Teaching Center.