Board and Emeritus Members

David V. B. Britt is a member of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and also is on the board of the nonprofit Public Good Projects. David...

Russlynn Ali is managing director of the education fund at the Emerson Collective. Previously, she served as assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, where she served as a prim...

José Luis Cruz is president of Lehman College of the City University of New York. Before coming to Lehman, José was provost and vice president of academic affairs at California State University, Fullerton. P...

Yolie Flores is chief program officer for the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, a collaborative effort of foundations, nonprofits, states, and communities nationwide to ensure that more children from low-incom...

A professor at Yale Law School, his alma mater, James Forman was a law clerk early in his career for Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O’Conno...

Peter C. Groff is the principal and chief strategist at MCG2 Consulting, LLC, and is a noted education policy innovator, national policy and political analyst, and leadership lecturer. He has served in senior ...

Arturo Pacheco retired in 2015 as El Paso Electric Company Professor of Education Research and director of the Center for Research on Educational Reform at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He also se...

John B. King Jr. is the president and CEO of The Education Trust, a national nonprofit organization that seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps, from preschool through college. King serve...

Kati Haycock is one of the nation's leading advocates in the field of education. She currently serves as CEO of The Education Trust. Established in 1996, Ed Trust works for the high academic achievement of ...