Board of Directors
Angela Glover Blackwell, Chair
Founder in Residence
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 Cogut
Co-Founder and Vice Chair
The Polyphony Foundation Greenwich, CT
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, Secretary
Child Advocate
Alexandria, VA
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Actor and Child Advocate
Los Angeles, CA
Lan Bentsen
Founder
Shape Tomorrow Houston, TX
Laphonza Butler
Partner
SCRB Strategies Los Angeles, CA
Malaak Compton-Rock
Founder and Director
The Angelrock Project New York, NY
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President Emerita
Martin Rodgers, Treasurer
Senior Managing Director — US Southeast and Metro Washington, DC Office Managing Director
Accenture Washington, DC, Arlington, VA
Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
President and CEO
Ruth-Ann Huvane, Vice-Chair
Child Advocate
Los Angeles, CACDF 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.
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
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