Leadership & Staff

Board of Directors

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Board of Directors

Laphonza Butler

Chair

President, Emily’s List Washington, DC

Dr. Carmen Rojas

Vice Chair

President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation
Dr. Starsky Wilson

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

President and CEO

Martin Rodgers

Martin Rodgers

Treasurer

Senior Managing Director — US Southeast and Metro Washington, DC Office Managing Director, Accenture Washington, DC, Arlington, VA
Deborah Cogut

Deborah Cogut

Secretary

Co-Founder and Vice Chair, The Polyphony Foundation Greenwich, CT

Lan Bentsen

Founder, Shape Tomorrow Houston, TX

Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder in Residence, PolicyLink Oakland, CA

Zachary Boyers

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, US Bancorp Community Development Corporation

The Reverend Dr. Don Darius Butler

Pastor, First Missionary Baptist Church

Malaak Compton-Rock

Founder and Director, The Angelrock Project New York, NY
Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President Emerita

DD Eisenberg

Child Advocate Coral Gables, FL
Clay Grubb

Clay Grubb

CEO and Chairman, Grubb Properties Atlanta, GA

Deborah Jewell-Sherman

Director, Urban Superintendents Program and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education Cambridge, MA

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