Lan Bentsen, Vice Chair
Co-Founder
Frontera Resources
Houston, TX

Carol Oughton Biondi
Child Advocate/Commissioner
Los Angeles County
Commission for Children and Families
Los Angeles, CA

Angela Glover Blackwell, Vice Chair
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
PolicyLink
Oakland, CA

Geoffrey Canada, Chair
President and Chief Executive Officer
Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.
New York, NY

Deborah S. Cogut, Esq.
Vice Chair
The Polyphony Foundation
Greenwich, CT

Malaak Compton-Rock
Founder and Director
The Angelrock Project
Alpine, NJ

Leslie Cornfeld, Esq.
Director
Mayor's Task Force on Child Welfare and Safety
New York, NY

Marian Wright Edelman
President
Children's Defense Fund
Washington, D.C.

DD Eisenberg
Child Advocate
Coral Gables, FL

Pat Fallon
Chairman
Fallon Worldwide
Minneapolis, MN

Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.
President
Healing of the Nations Foundation
New York, NY

Winifred Green
President
Southern Coalition for
Educational Equity
New Orleans, LA

George Gresham
President
1199SEIU
Bronx, NY

Clay Grubb
President
Grubb Properties, Inc.
Charlotte, NC

Ruth-Ann Huvane
Child Advocate
Los Angeles, CA

William Lynch, Jr.
President
Bill Lynch Associates, LLC
New York, NY

Katie McGrath
Child Advocate
Los Angeles, CA

Ivanna Omeechevarria
Child Advocate
Alexandria, VA

Wendy Puriefoy
Director of Education
Barr Foundation
Boston, MA

Barbara Shaw
Child Advocate
Baltimore, MD

Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Actress
Los Angeles, CA

Laura Wasserman
Child Advocate
Los Angeles, CA

Ali Wentworth
Actress
New York, NY

Reese Witherspoon
Actress
Los Angeles, CA