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

Stephen F. Bollenbach
Retired Co-Chairman & CEO
Hilton Hotels Corporation


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

Paul Finnegan

Co-CEO

Madison Dearborn Partners


Donald G. Fisher
Founder & Chair Emeritus
Gap Inc.


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
Chairman & CEO
Digitas Inc.


Wendy Kopp
CEO & Founder
Teach For America


Sherry Lansing
CEO
Sherry Lansing Foundation


Sue Lehmann
Management Consultant


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


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

Anthony W. Marx
President
Amherst College


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

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

Nancy Peretsman
Managing Director
Allen & Company LLC

Alma J. Powell
Chair, America’s Promise Alliance

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

Lawrence J. Stupski
Chairman
Stupski Foundation

Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Harvard University

G. Kennedy (Ken) Thompson
Retired, Chairman, President and CEO Wachovia Corporation

John W. Thompson
Chairman & CEO
Symantec Corporation

Gregory W. Wendt
Senior Vice President
Capital Research Company

Jide Zeitlin (Treasurer)
Retired Partner
Goldman Sachs & Co.

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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)
Meritage Group


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 Director
Lone Pine Capital LLC


Neal S. Wolin (Connecticut, Hartford)
President & Chief Operating Officer
Property & Casualty Operations
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.


Robin Golden (Connecticut, New Haven)

Lecturer, Yale Law School
Former Chief Operating Officer
New Haven Public Schools


John McArthur (Eastern North Carolina)
Senior Vice President
Progress Energy


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


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

H. Mitchell D’Olier (Hawaii)
President & CEO
Kaneohe Ranch Management Limited

Michael Dee (Houston)
Investment Banker


Sandy Miller (Las Vegas Valley)
Former First Lady of Nevada


Greg Laetsch (Interim Chair, Los Angeles)
Executive Vice President and
Regional Director - Southern California Region
Smith Barney Inc.


Mitchell H. Caplan (Metro D.C.)


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


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


Robert W. Scully (New York City)
Office of the Chairman
Morgan Stanley


Dana Zucker (Newark)


Connie Wilhelm (Phoenix)
President & Executive Director
Home Builders Association of Central Arizona


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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