Aubrey EscobarDr. Aubrey Escobar, DBA (Honors), M.Ed., is a scholar-practitioner with more than 25 years of experience spanning K-12 classroom teaching, school administration, EdTech executive leadership, and higher education. She is the Founder and CEO of Clairan, a strategic consulting firm specializing in educational technology evaluation and institutional risk governance, and the CEO and President of CLEAR (Center for Leadership, Equity, and Access), a 501(c) (3) focused on educational equity and leadership development.Dr. Escobar also serves as Adjunct Professor at the Chesapeake Energy School of Business at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. She is the creator of the 360° ROI Framework, the Institutional Risk and Integrity Index(TM) (IRII), Constellation Mapping, and several other proprietary methodologies that help educational institutions make evidence-based decisions about technology, leadership, and organizational design.Her career includes co-founding Mindsets Education and serving as Chief Academic Officer at one of the first online high schools. Her doctoral research demonstrated significant correlations (r ≈ .62) between transformational leadership dimensions and technology adoption success.Dr. Escobar is a Spanish speaker with deep roots in Latin American intellectual traditions and cross-cultural expertise. The Connected District is the first in her eight-book series, which culminates in The Expansive Condition (2028), a civilizational analysis of how institutions prevent the knowledge, thinking, and agency they claim to produce. Read More Read Less