Board of Directors
Laphonza Butler
Chair
President, Emily’s List Washington, DC
Dr. Carmen Rojas
Vice Chair
President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation
Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
President and CEO
Martin Rodgers
Treasurer
Senior Managing Director — US Southeast and Metro Washington, DC Office Managing Director, Accenture Washington, DC, Arlington, VA
Deborah Cogut
Secretary
Co-Founder and Vice Chair, The Polyphony Foundation Greenwich, CT
Lan Bentsen
Angela Glover Blackwell
Zachary Boyers
The Reverend Dr. Don Darius Butler
Malaak Compton-Rock
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President Emerita
DD Eisenberg
Clay Grubb
Deborah Jewell-Sherman
CDF Board Emeriti
Geoffrey Canada,
Chair, 2008 – 2014
Lisle Carter, Jr.*
Laura Chasin*
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Esq.
Chair, 1986 – 1992
Maureen Cogan
Deborah S. Cogut, Esq.
Leonard Coleman, Jr.
Leslie Cornfeld, Esq.
Leslee Dart
John Deardourff*
Pat Fallon*
Rev. James Forbes, Jr.
James Forman, Jr., Esq.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Winifred Green*
George Gresham
Lucy Hackney, Esq.
Henry Hampton*
Howard Haworth*
Dorothy Height*
David Hornbeck, Esq.
Chair, 1994 – 2005
Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, Jr.
James Joseph,
Chair, 1993 – 1994
Deborah Leff, Esq.
Marilyn Levitt
William Lynch, Jr.*
Katie McGrath
Charles Merrill, Jr.
Heidi Miller
Eileen Norton
Ivanna Omeechevarria
Wendy Puriefoy
Leonard Riggio
Dennis Rivera
Johnathan Rodgers
Donna E. Shalala,
Chair, 1992 – 1993
Barbara Shaw
J. Michael Solar, Esq.
Susan Thomases, Esq.
Thomas Troyer, Esq.
Jason Tyler
Robert Vagt,
Chair, 2005 – 2008
Laura Wasserman
Suzanne Weil
Ali Wentworth
Abigail Wexner, Esq.
Reese Witherspoon
Deborah Wright, Esq.
*deceased