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

New York, NY

Leslie Cornfeld, Esq.

Director

Mayor's Task Force on Child Welfare and Safety

New York, NY 

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President  

Children’s Defense Fund

Washington, DC

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

President

1199 SEIU

New York, 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

General President

Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 

Baltimore, MD

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Actress

Los Angeles, CA

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