Elijah Armstrong (he/him) 27, received his bachelor’s from Penn State and his Master of Education Policy and Management from Harvard, where he was president of the Black Student Union. Elijah received the 2021 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award and used the funds to start the Heumann-Armstrong Award for Education Activism. Elijah is an epileptic who was denied accommodations in high school. He is starting at Stanford Law School in the fall of 2024.