Board of Advisors

Aileen Adams Chair, The Women’s Foundation of California
Larry Baer Chief Operating Officer, San Francisco Giants
Richard I. Beattie Chairman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Angela Glover Blackwell Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
Geoff Canada Founder and President, Harlem Children's Zone
Ramon Cortines Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
Yogen Dalal Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Steven A. Denning Founding Partner, General Atlantic Partners
Susan Ford Dorsey President. Sand Hill Foundation
Millard Drexler Chairman and CEO, J. Crew
Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, The National Institutes of Health
Robert J. Fisher Director, Gap Inc.
Arjun Gupta Founder and Managing Partner, TeleSoft Partners
F. Warren Hellman Founding Partner and Chairman, Hellman & Friedman LLC
Jim Herbert President and CEO, First Republic Bank
David Hornik General Partner, August Capital
Omar Khan President, Insight Strategy & Logic (ISL), Web Site Design
David Lawrence Jr. President, The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation
Nion McEvoy Chairman and CEO, Chronicle Books LLC
Nell Minow Founder, The Corporate Library and Movie Mom
Newton Minow Counsel, Sidley, Austin and Brown; Former FCC Chairman
James Montoya Senior Vice President, The College Board
Becky Morgan President, Morgan Family Foundation
Nancy Peretsman Managing Director, Allen & Company Inc.
Philip Pizzo, MD Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
George Roberts Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Carrie Schwab Pomerantz President, Charles Schwab Foundation
Alan Schwartz CEO, Guggenheim Partners
Marshall Smith Senior Advisor, Department of Education
Thomas Steyer Founding Partner, Farallon Capital
Gene T. Sykes Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Group
Robert S. Townsend Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Laura Walker President, WNYC Radio
Alice Waters Founder, Chez Panisse and Chez Panisse Foundation
Robert Wehling Founder, Family Friendly Programming Forum; Former CMO, Procter & Gamble
Tim Zagat Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Zagat Survey
   
POLICY ADVISORS  
Angela Glover Blackwell Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
Dr. Milton Chen Executive Director, The George Lucas Educational Foundation
Michael Cohen CEO, The Michael Cohen Group
Dr. Jeffrey Cole Director, Center For The Digital Future
Ramon Cortines Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, The National Institutes of Health
Ellen Galinsky Co-Founder and President, Families and Work Institute
Andrew Greenberg President, Greenberg Qualitative Research, Inc.
Denis Hayes President, The Bullitt Foundation
Dr. Donald Kennedy President Emeritus, Stanford University; Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine
David Lawrence Jr. President, The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation
Wendy Lazarus Founder and Co-President, The Children's Partnership
Christopher Lehane Political Communications Expert
Laurie Lipper Founder and Co-President, The Children's Partnership
Philip Pizzo, M.D. Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Alvin Poussaint Prof. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Dir. of Media, Judge Baker Children’s Center
Thomas Robinson, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University
Marshall Smith Senior Adviser, Department of Education
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