Dan Leeds, founder and chair
- Alliance for Excellent Education, board chair
- Brookings Institution Business Council, member
- Brookings Institution Center for the United States and Europe, advisory board member
- Enfranchisement Foundation, board co-chair
- Education Voters of America, board chair
- MIT Sloan School of Management, Dean’s advisory board
- NY EdPAC, board chair
- Teachers Institute of Washington DC, board member
Sunita Leeds, secretary/treasurer
- Enfranchisement Foundation, co-chair
- Education Voters of America, board member
- Maret School (DC), board member
- National Jewish Democratic Council, executive committee
- NY EdPAC, board member
James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H.
- Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center
- Founded Comer School Development Program, 1968
- Member, National Committee on Teaching and America’s Future
- Member, Nellie Mae Education Foundation Board of Directors
- Member, Columbia University Board of Directors
- Received the 2006 John Hope Franklin Award
- Received the 2004 John P. McGovern Behavioral Science Award from the Smithsonian
- Recipient of numerous honorary degrees. Board Member Emeritus of several institutions.
John H. Jackson Ed.D., J.D.
- President and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education
- Founder and Chairman of the National Equity Center Inc.
- Held previous positions as NAACP’s Chief Policy Officer and National Director of Education
- 2002 recipient of the NAACP Medgar Evers Award
- Appointed by President Clinton to serve as Senior Policy Officer in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.
Douglas E. Wood, Ph.D.
- George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, fellow
- National Academy for Excellent Teaching, Columbia University, executive director
- Former Executive Director of the Tennessee State Board of Education
- Named 1994 South Carolina Technology Educator of the Year
- Awarded the 2002-2003 Distinguished Service Award by the Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers
Linda Darling-Hammond, Ed.D.
- Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University
- Launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network
- Founding executive director of the National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future, the blue-ribbon panel who authored the 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future
- Wrote The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 1998
Paul Herdman, Ed.D.
- President and CEO of the Rodel Foundation
- Managed support to states at New American Schools
- Conducted research for the Brookings Institution, RAND, US Dept of Education, and the World Bank
- Co-founded a school-within-a-school in New York City, used as a model for Expeditionary Learning
- Worked in MA Dept of Education under two governors during redesign of state’s policies on standards, choice, and finance
- PhD from Harvard in Education Administration and Planning
