Each day we see the realities of educational inequity juxtaposed against the concrete evidencethat when students in low-income communitiesare given opportunities they deserve, they excel.

Boards

We are grateful to the following individuals who generously lend their leadership and support to Teach For America as members of our national board of directors or regional board chairs:

National Board of Directors

Laura E. Arnold

Co-Founder and President

Arnold Family Foundation


Thomas H. Castro
Founder and CEO
El Dorado Capital, LLC

Maxine Clark
Founder, Chief Executive Bear & Chairman
Build-A-Bear Workshop®

Paul Finnegan

Co-CEO

Madison Dearborn Partners


Lew Frankfort
Chairman & CEO
Coach, Inc.


David Gergen
Professor of Public Service
Director of the Center for Public Leadership
Harvard University


Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
William S. Tod Professor of Religion
and African American Studies
Princeton University


Leo J. Hindery, Jr.
Managing Partner
InterMedia Partners


Walter Isaacson (Chair)
President & CEO
The Aspen Institute


David W. Kenny
Managing Partner
VivaKi


Wendy Kopp
CEO & Founder
Teach For America


Sue Lehmann
Management Consultant


Michael L. Lomax, Ph.D.
President & CEO
United Negro College Fund

Stephen F. Mandel, Jr.
Managing Partner
Lone Pine Capital LLC

Anthony W. Marx
President
Amherst College

James M. McCormick
Founder, CEO & President
First Manhattan Consulting Group

Darla Moore
Vice President
Rainwater, Inc.

Greg Penner
General Partner
Madrone Capital Partners

Richard S. Pechter
Alumnus, Teach For America
Retired Chairman, DLJ Financial Services

Nancy Peretsman
Managing Director
Allen & Company LLC

Laurene Powell
Co-Founder and President
College Track

Arthur Rock
Principal
Arthur Rock & Co.

Paula A. Sneed (Vice Chair)
Retired Executive Vice President
Kraft Foods, Inc.

Sir Howard Stringer
Chairman & Group CEO
Sony Corporation

Kurt Strovink

Director

McKinsey & Company

Lawrence J. Stupski
Chairman
Stupski Foundation

Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
President
Spelman College

Gregory W. Wendt
Senior Vice President
Capital Research Company

Jide Zeitlin (Treasurer)
The Keffi Group Ltd.
Lifetime Directors
John Hotchkis
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Ramajal, LLC 		Sherry Lansing
CEO
Sherry Lansing Foundation

 

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Regional Board Chairs

Cecil Phillips (Atlanta)
President & CEO
Place Properties


Donald Manekin (Baltimore)
Partner
Seawall Development Company


Jason M. Fish (Bay Area)

David Dooley (Charlotte)
Executive Vice President
RT Dooley Construction Company


Paul Finnegan (Chicago)
Co-CEO
Madison Dearborn Partners


Stephen F. Mandel, Jr. (Connecticut,
Fairfield County)
Managing Partner
Lone Pine Capital LLC

Robin Golden (Connecticut, New Haven)
Lecturer, Yale Law School
Former Chief Operating Officer
New Haven Public Schools

Katherine Bradley (D.C. Region)
President
City Bridge Foundation

Zach Neumeyer (Denver)

Dave Horne (Eastern North Carolina)
Partner; Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan
Raleigh, NC

Joseph Aluise (Greater New Orleans)
Senior Counsel
Entergy Services Inc.

Robert J. Hall (Greater Philadelphia-Camden)
Principal
Andesite Holdings

H. Mitchell D’Olier (Hawai'i)
President & CEO
Kaneohe Ranch Management Limited

Lori Vetters (Houston)
Regional President, Houston Gulf Coast
Wachovia

Steven T. Halverson (Jacksonville)
Chief Executive Officer
The Haskell Company

Richard Green (Kansas City)
The Calvin Group

Melanie Lundquist (Los Angeles)

C.L. Conroy (Miami-Dade)
President
The Conroy Martinez Group


Charles T. Harris III (New York)
Executive Partner
SeaChange Capital Partners


Robert W. Scully (New York)
Morgan Stanley


Dana Zucker (Newark)


Mark Leinweber (Phoenix)
Vice President
Stevens-Leinweber Construction, Inc.


John Herrera (Rio Grande Valley)
General Manager
Magic Valley Electric Cooperative


Cordell Haymon (South Louisiana)
Vice President
SGS Petroleum Service Corporation


Maxine Clark (St. Louis)
Founder, Chief Executive Bear & Chairman
Build-A-Bear Workshop®

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