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In this faculty conversation from Your Harvard: Washington, D.C., Tomiko Nagin-Brown, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Henry Lee Professor of Economics and Faculty Director of the Education Innovation Laboratory; and James E. Ryan, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Charles William Eliot Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; examine the challenges geographic disparity present in determining educational opportunity, and reflect on the transformative power of education for upward mobility, prosperity, and advancing equal opportunity. Moderated by Albert R. Hunt, this conversation was recorded on November 13, 2017 at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture.