About Us

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Board of Directors

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

 

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

 

James Forbes, Jr.
Senior Minister Emeritus
The Riverside Church
New York, NY

 

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

 
George Gresham

George Gresham
President
1199SEIU
Bronx, NY

 

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
President
Public Education Network (PEN)
Washington, D.C.

 
Barbara Shaw

Barbara Shaw
General President
Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Baltimore, MD

 
Jurnee Smollett

Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Actress
Los Angeles, CA

 
Jason Tyler

Jason Tyler
Senior Vice President, Investment Committee
Director of Research Operations
Ariel Capital Management
Chicago, IL

 

Laura Wasserman
Child Advocate
Los Angeles, CA

 

Ali Wentworth
Actress
New York, NY

 

Reese Witherspoon
Actress
Los Angeles, CA


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