National Board of Directors

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Chuck Harris, Board Chair
Executive Partner, SeaChange Capital Partners, Inc.

Chuck Harris is Executive Partner of SeaChange Capital Partners, Inc., a newly-formed non-profit financial intermediary designed to enhance the flows of growth capital to outstanding social change organizations. He is a former partner and managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Chuck is president of the trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy, where he is also chair of the Exeter Initiatives, the school’s $305 million comprehensive capital campaign. He is board chair of College Summit, where he also worked as interim VP of Business Development from April through September 2004. He is a co-chair of the New York City Advisory Board of Teach for America and a leader of the NYC sponsor group. Chuck serves on the board of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc., which administers the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. He is a director of IPValue Management, Inc., Critical Power Services, Inc. and SeaCloth, LLC. Chuck lives in Darien, CT and Jackson, WY with his wife, Susan, an artist and fabric designer. Their twin sons are college juniors.

 

Andrea Black, Alumna Board Member
First Grade Teacher, W.J. Scott Elementary School

Andrea Black, a 2005 Teach for America Corps member, is a first grade teacher at W.J. Scott Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia. She is one of many recent college graduates who committed two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become life-long leaders in pursuit of expanding educational opportunity. She has continued classroom instruction beyond her two year commitment and remains devoted to applying differentiation instruction and developing alternative methods of teaching state curriculum to students of all levels of proficiency. Andrea is a College Summit Alumna and completed the University of Chicago Workshop in 2000 as a junior attending Morgan Park High School in Chicago, IL. For seven years, she has volunteered at College Summit Workshops in various roles, including Alumni Leader, Writing Coach, Writing Coach Coordinator, and Workshop Director. In 2006, she facilitated at College Summit’s Educators’ Institute in St. Louis. She received a B.A. in Political Science from Fisk University.

 

Stephen Fraidin
Corporate Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Stephen Fraidin joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a corporate partner in April 2003. Previously, Mr. Fraidin was a partner with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Mr. Fraidin was named one of America’s Leading Business Lawyers, Chambers & Partners USA, 2004-2005 and he has been a visiting Lecturer, The Law and Economics of Corporate Control, Yale Law School, 1988-present. Mr. Fraidin has been a member of: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Secretary, Securities Regulation Committee, 1971-1974; Chairman, Subcommittee on Tender Offers, 1987-1988; 1988-1990); American Bar Association (Reporter, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Section on Corporation, Banking and Business Law, 1974-1976; Subcommittee Member, 1974-present); Executive Committee, Yale Law School Association, 1990-1994; Board of Overseers, Tufts University, Arts and Sciences, 1992-1999; Editorial Advisory Board, Prentice Hall Law & Business Contemporary Corporation Forms; Board of Directors, UJA-Federation of New York, 1995-present; and he was Chairman, Lawyers Division of UJA-Federation of New York, 1995-1997. Mr. Fraidin has authored a variety of publications including: “Advice for Lawyers: Navigating the New Realm of Federal Regulation of Legal Ethics,” co-authored with Laura B. Mutterperl, University of Cincinnati Law Review, Volume 72, “SEC Initiatives: The Nomination Process and Ballot Access,” the American Bar Association, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Business Law Section, December 5-6, 2003, “Enron on My Mind,” Judicial Conference, Second Judicial Circuit of the United States, June 2003, “Strategic Alliances and Corporate Control,” co-authored with Radu Lelutiu, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Summer 2003 and “Toward Unlocking Lockups,” co-authored with Jon D. Hanson, Yale Law Journal, May 1994.

Dean Furbush
President, College Summit

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Jaime R. Harrison, Esq.
Director of Floor Operations and Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives

Before his appointment to Director of Floor Operations for the U.S. House of Representatives, Jaime served as Executive Director of the House Democratic Caucus. Upon his appointment in 2006, he became the first African-American and one of the youngest individuals to hold the position. As Executive Director, he served as one of Caucus Chairman James Clyburn’s chief leadership liaisons, oversaw the day-to-day operations of the Caucus, and participated in the development of national strategy, message, and policy for the Democratic Party, specifically House Democrats. Prior to his appointment, he served as Policy Advisor and Caucus leadership aide to Congressman Clyburn. Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, Jaime was Chief Operations Officer for College Summit, Inc. As one of the country’s youngest non-profit COO’s, he helped grow the organization from a small Washington, D.C. based non-profit to a nationally recognized organization. Prior to his work at College Summit, Jaime taught ninth grade World Geography at his high school alma mater, Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School. A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Jaime graduated from Yale University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. In 2004, he received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to practice in the South Carolina Bar in 2005.

Vanessa Kirsch
President and Founder, New Profit Inc.

Vanessa Kirsch is the President and Founder of New Profit Inc. New Profit is a national venture philanthropy fund that unites engaged philanthropists with visionary social entrepreneurs to grow their social innovations to scale. Vanessa has more than 17 years of experience in developing innovative solutions to social problems and is widely recognized as a leading social entrepreneur. Prior to launching New Profit, Vanessa founded and led two nonprofit organizations, Public Allies and the Women's Information Network. Vanessa has received numerous public service awards and recognition for her work. In 2005, Ernst & Young named Vanessa “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the category of Social Entrepreneurship, an award that recognizes the innovation, vision, and tenacity of New England’s top entrepreneurs. She has been recognized by Forbes as one of 15 innovators who will reinvent the future; by Fast Company as "Who’s Fast 2000;" and by the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” as one of the most promising leaders in Boston. Currently, Vanessa serves on the Tufts Board of Overseers to the University College of Citizenship and Public Service, and on the Boards of New Leaders for New Schools and College Summit. Vanessa is a graduate of Tufts University and currently serves on the Alumni Council. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with her husband, Alan Khazei, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of City Year, Inc., and their daughter, Mirabelle.

James J. McGonigle
Chairman, Corporate Executive Board

Jay McGonigle is the Chairman of the Corporate Executive Board, with responsibility for board leadership, high-level strategic and operational oversight, and CEO coaching and selected senior leadership development at this public company (NASDAQ: EXBD). Prior to July 2005, Jay McGonigle was Chairman and CEO, with responsibility for all strategy and operations. The Corporate Executive Board Company is a leading provider of best practices research and analysis focusing on corporate strategy, operations and general management issues. CEB provides its integrated set of services currently to more than 2,800 of the world's largest and most prestigious corporations, including over 80% of the Fortune 500. These services are provided primarily on an annual subscription basis and include best practices research studies, executive education seminars, customized research briefs and Web-based access to a library of over 300,000 corporate best practices. In 2005, the CEB grew revenues by 29% to $ 362 million, net income by 40% to $75 million, and ended the year with over 1800 employees in Washington, D.C., London and Delhi. The share price has increased ten-fold since the firm’s IPO in 1999. Prior to joining the Corporate Executive Board in May of 1995, Mr. McGonigle was a consultant in the Financial Institutions Group at McKinsey & Company in New York. In his six years there, he served commercial and investment banking clients in the U.S., Belgium, Denmark, and Australia. His areas of focus included bank turnarounds, performance measurement, risk management, retail network design, database marketing, and business unit strategy. He also served clients in the telecommunications, food, and information services industries. Mr. McGonigle holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. In addition to the CEB, Mr. McGonigle also serves on the Boards of FactSet Research Systems (NYSE: FDS), SNL Financial and College Summit.

Julie Mork
Managing Director, ECA Foundation

Julie Mork is Managing Director of the ECA Foundation, a private, corporate foundation based in Denver with a focus on youth and education. She has been a Director of Energy Corporation of America since 1993. Mork served as a founder and Secretary/Treasurer of Pacific States Gas & Oil, Inc., and Eastern American Energy Corporation. From 1989 to 1991, she was Eastern’s Community Relations and Human Resources Director. Mork received a B. A. in History from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1972. She also holds a Certificate in Real Estate Paralegal Training. Mork volunteers her time to several organizations including the Anchor Center for Blind Children where she currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board and is a past President of the Board of Directors. She also served as a member of the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation for six years.

Walter Robinson
Director of Admissions, University of California at Berkeley

Walter Robinson was born in Oakland and raised in Richmond and Berkeley. After graduating from Berkeley High School, he earned his bachelor's of science degree from California State University, Fresno. From 1980 through 1986 he was a counselor in CSU Fresno's Educational Opportunity Program, involved in academic preparation, student retention services and student advising. He later served at CSU Fresno as the associate director of affirmative action, developing and coordinating diversity awareness training programs for faculty, staff and students. He went on to become associate director there of the University Student Union, where he directed student activities programs, including a leadership development program. In 1994, Robinson became the assistant director of admissions at the University of Florida at Gainesville, where he coordinated and supervised minority recruitment programs, reviewed admissions applications and analyzed application and enrollment trends. In 1996, he became associate director of admissions at the state's flagship campus, where he assisted in the development and implementation of admissions policy, supervised admissions recruitment programs and coordinated outreach efforts. Robinson became the director of admissions at the University of California at Berkeley in January 2005. As director of undergraduate admissions he is responsible for providing administrative leadership, policy development and resource management to the office of undergraduate admissions which includes the selection process, as well as outreach and recruitment efforts. The University of California Berkeley has 33,000 students, including about 24,000 undergraduates. The university uses a holistic application review process in which student applications are considered based upon a broad range of factors, including grades, test scores, coursework, community service and leadership.

Stephen Sacks
Principal, McKinsey & Company (London Office)

Stephen Sacks is a Principal in McKinsey & Company’s London Office, and is a leader of the Firm’s Travel and Logistics and its Operations practice. His focus is on the development of business strategies and performance transformation programs for large companies and public sector institutions. He has an A.B. in politics from Princeton University and an M.S. in operations research from Columbia University.

Barry Salzberg
Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP

Barry Salzberg is Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services organizations, providing audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services through nearly 40,000 people in more than 90 cities. He also is a member of the Deloitte U.S. Firms’ Board of Directors, and the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Management Committee.

Mr. Salzberg joined the Deloitte U.S. Firms as a tax specialist in 1977, was admitted to the U.S. partnership in 1985, and was appointed to a variety of leadership and client service roles. Mr. Salzberg most recently served U.S. Managing Partner from 2003-2007 and oversaw the management of the organization’s four businesses and operating infrastructure, including human resources and shared services. He is an acknowledged authority in the areas of personal tax and partnership tax matters, and is becoming known in the marketplace for his commitment to building opportunities for tomorrow’s leaders and fostering diversity within the workplace.

Mr. Salzberg is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the New York County Lawyers Association. In addition, he is the Chairman of the Board of the YMCA of Greater New York, Chair of Diversity Best Practices’ CEO Roundtable Initiatives, and a board member of College Summit, Vanderbilt University Owen School, the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and the Johnetta B. Cole Global Diversity & Inclusion Institute at Bennett College for Women. .

Mr. Salzberg received his undergraduate degree in Accounting from Brooklyn College, his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and his LLM in Taxation from the New York University School of Law.

Arthur J. Samberg
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pequot Capital Management

Art Samberg is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pequot Capital Management. Prior to establishing Pequot Capital, Mr. Samberg served as the President of Dawson-Samberg Capital Management where he established the first Pequot investment fund in 1986. He spun the Pequot series of hedge funds out of Dawson Samberg in January 1999, creating PCMI. Prior to joining Dawson, Mr. Samberg was an employee and partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer, Inc. and served as a member of their Management Committee. Art holds a S.B. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he serves as a Member of the MIT Corporation and as Vice Chairman of the MIT Investment Company. He also received a M.S. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University where he sits on the Board of Overseers of the Business School and is a member of its Board of Overseers’ Executive Committee. Mr. Samberg is also on the Board of Directors Historic Hudson Valley, on the New York-Presbyterian Board of Trustees and its Executive and Investment Committees, and serves as Chairman of the Jacob Burns Film Center. Other philanthropic affiliations include the Board of College Summit, the National Board of Directors of the National Foundation For Teaching Entrepreneurship, the Board of Overseers at the Children's Hospital of New York, and a partner of Birthright Israel.

Laura Samberg
Co-Director, Samberg Family Foundation

Laura Samberg has been Co-Director of the Samberg Family Foundation since 2001, managing all aspects of grantee relations in the Foundation’s three program areas: children, youth and education; health; and Jewish issues. Prior to joining the Foundation, Laura was a Project Manager at RO.W. Sciences, a health services research firm. Her research, policy and advocacy experience also includes positions at the American Council on Education and the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington DC. Laura is also on the Board of Directors of Harlem Children’s Zone and Jewish Outreach Institute. Laura holds a B.A. in History from Cornell University and a M.A. in Education from Stanford University.

Jon Schnur
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, New Leaders for New Schools

Jon serves at Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of New Leaders for New Schools. He works with the New Leaders team and community to ensure high academic achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead at scale. Since co-founding New Leaders for New Schools, he has led the development of the organizations’ strategy, management team and board, core values, partnerships, and fundraising. Currently, 427 New Leaders school leaders serve more than 200,000 children and by 2014, New Leaders anticipates that it will train 20-25% of the new principals in the US needed for urban, low-income public schools. New Leaders for New Schools is one of ten organizations in the country to have been awarded a Fast Company Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award for five consecutive years as a non-profit organization that has demonstrated a consistent and unusually large impact on society. In addition to serving as a College Summit board member, Jon is currently a board member of Be the Change and is an Aspen Institute-NewSchools Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Fellow. He has served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Education Richard Riley, President Clinton’s White House Associate Director for Educational Policy, and Senior Advisor on Education to Vice President Gore. He has developed national educational policies on teacher and principal quality, after-school programs, district reform, charter schools, and preschools. Jon lives in New York with his wife and two children, and he graduated from Princeton University and a Wisconsin public school.

J.B. Schramm
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, College Summit

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Steve Seleznow
Program Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Education Initiatives

Steven G. Seleznow is the program director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s education initiatives and leads program grantmaking for the western United States and Ohio. Prior to joining the foundation, Seleznow served as partner and Chief Investment Officer at Venture Philanthropy Partners in Washington, DC and was responsible for developing strategies to cultivate new investments, leveraging portfolio investment partnerships, and managing the selection of new investments. Seleznow brings to the foundation nearly 30 years of leadership and management experience in public education, having led the Montgomery County, MD, Public Schools as deputy superintendent for education and the District of Columbia Public Schools as chief of staff and also interim superintendent. Prior to these appointments, Seleznow was a teacher, an elementary and a secondary school principal, and served in a wide range of district administrator roles. Seleznow was also associate research professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Seleznow earned a doctorate and master’s degree in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University, a master’s of arts degree from the University of Maryland, and is a graduate of Boston University.

Bill Shore
Founder and Executive Director, Share Our Strength

Bill Shore is the founder and executive director of Share Our Strength, the nation’s leading organization working to end childhood hunger in the United States. Shore is also the chairman of Community Wealth Ventures, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength, that provides consulting services. Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 in response to the Ethiopian famine and subsequently renewed concern about hunger in the United States. Since its founding, Share Our Strength has raised more than $200 million to support more than 1,000 anti-hunger, anti-poverty groups worldwide. Today, its priority is to end childhood hunger in America ensuring that the nearly 14 million American children facing hunger have access to the nutritious food they need to learn, grow and thrive. In 1997, Shore launched Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. to provide strategic counsel to corporations, foundations and nonprofit organizations interested in creating community wealth – resources generated through profitable enterprise to promote social change. From 1978 through 1987, Shore served on the senatorial and presidential campaign staffs of U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.) From 1988 to 1991, Shore served as chief of staff for U.S. Senator Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.) His transition from politics to innovative community service and his prescription for community change are documented in his first book Revolution of the Heart (Riverhead Press, 1995). Shore’s second book, The Cathedral Within (Random House, 1999) profiles a new breed of community leaders who are tapping every sector of society to improve community life. Shore’s most recent book, The Light of Conscience, published in February of 2004, explores how acts of conscience can and have changed the world. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Shore is 50 years old. He earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He currently serves on the board of directors of The Timberland Company, City Year, College Summit, and Venture Philanthropy Partners. In the past, Shore has taught a class on social entrepreneurship at New York University’s Stern School of Business as an adjunct professor and has been a guest lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. In October 2005, US News & World Report selected Shore as one of America's Best Leaders, an accomplished group selected by an independent committee of judges assembled by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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Don Cheadle
Actor

Acclaimed actor Don Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964, to a psychologist father and bank manager mother.  During his early childhood, his family moved to Denver. He first made an impression on audiences with his lead role in Hamburger Hill (1987), and, in 1994, he had his true screen breakthrough portraying Denzel Washington's best friend in Devil in a Blue Dress.  1997 proved to be a big year for him: he co-starred in three major films, Volcano, Boogie Nights, and John Singleton's Rosewood. He won particular praise for his work in the latter two films, earning nominations for SAG and Image awards. The following year, Cheadle made a triumphant return to television with his portrayal of Sammy Davis Jr. in The Rat Pack, winning an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe award.  Also in 1998, he did stellar work in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight and Warren Beatty's Bulworth, playing a down and dirty ex-con in the former and a drug lord in the latter.  Another Emmy nomination followed in1999, for Cheadle's powerful portrayal of a school teacher sent in to counsel a young man on death row, in A Lesson Before Dying. Cheadle would become something of a fixture in Soderbergh's films, gaining positive note for his role in Traffic and later turning up in the director's remake of the Rat Pack classic Ocean’s 11 and Ocean’s 12. In 2004, Cheadle earned a Golden Globe and Emmy Nomination for his powerful role in Hotel Rwanda.  He also starred in, and was one of the producers of Crash, which won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Picture. Don Cheadle has been a College Summit Writing Coach at two workshops.  He also served on the National Board of Directors for four years and is a longtime advocate for college access.

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