Board of Directors
Angela Glover Blackwell, Esq. Co-Chair
Founder and CEO
PolicyLink Oakland, CA
Bryan Stevenson, Esq.
Founder and Executive Director
Equal Justice Initiative Montgomery, AL
Carol Oughton Biondi
Board Member
California State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention/ Board Member, ARC (Anti-Recidivism Coalition) Los Angeles, CA
DD Eisenberg
Child Advocate
Coral Gables, FL
Deborah Jewell-Sherman
Director
Urban Superintendents Program and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
George Gresham
President
1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Bronx, NY
Ivanna Omeechevarria
Child Advocate
Alexandria, VA
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Actress
Los Angeles, CA
Lan Bentsen, Co-Chair
Founder
Shape Tomorrow Houston, TX
Laphonza Butler
President
Service Employees International Union-United Long Term Care Workers (SEIU-ULTCW) Los Angeles, CA
Malaak Compton-Rock
Founder and Director
The Angelrock Project New York, NY
Marian Wright Edelman
President
Martin Rodgers
Managing Director, Executive Director
Managing Director for Health & Public Service Southeast, Executive Director of Accenture’s Nonprofit Group and International Public Sector Practice Washington, DC, Arlington, VA
Ruth-Ann Huvane
Child Advocate
Los Angeles, CA
Wendy Puriefoy
Child Advocate
Washington, DCCDF Board Emeriti
Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell
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*
Clay Grubb
Lucy Hackney, Esq.
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
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