Arnetha Ball

Professor
Stanford University

Lezli Baskerville

President and CEO
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education

Geoffrey Canada

President and CEO
Harlem Children's Zone

Meria Carstarphen

Superintendent
Austin Independent School District

Kriner Cash

Superintendent
Memphis City Schools

Brandon Corley

Project Director
Ujamaa CDC, Grace CDF Freedom Schools

Robert Franklin

President
Morehouse College

Tyrone Howard

Professor and Director
University of California, Los Angeles

Wanda Hutchinson

Associate Professor of Education
Athens State University

Alvin Irby

Education Director
The Boys' Club of New York (BCNY)

Eric Kearney

Minority Leader
Ohio State Senate

Ronald Mason Jr.

President
Southern University System

Michael T. Nettles

Senior Vice President
Educational Testing Service

David Wall Rice

Associate Professor
Morehouse College

James Roland

Director of Community Outreach and Engaged Scholarship for the Barkley Forum
Emory University

Mary Evans Sias

President
Kentucky State University

Mia Smith-Bynum

Associate Professor
University of Maryland

Sharon Washington

Executive Director
National Writing Project

Jerry Weast

Founder & CEO
Partnership for Deliberate Excellence

Marian Wright Edelman

President
Children's Defense Fund