Advisory Council

John Wood

Founder & Executive Chairman, Room to Read

Esther Wojcicki

Educator & Journalist

Harris Wofford (in memoriam)

U.S. Senator (fmr)

Adam Weinberg

President, Denison University

Chris Stakich

CEO, Rustic Pathways (fmr)

Debora Spar

Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School

Bill Shore

Founder & CEO, Share Our Strength

Sonal Shah

President, The Asian American Foundation

Jeff Selingo

Author & Host of FutureU podcast

Dan Rose

VP Partnerships, Facebook (fmr)

Fernando Reimers

Director of International Education Policy, Harvard University

William S. Reese

President & CEO, International Youth Foundation

Victoria Ransom

Entrepreneur, Founder of Wildfire Interactive and Prisma

Dominic Randolph

Head of School, Riverdale Country Day School

Jeff Raikes

Co-Founder & CEO, Raikes Foundation

Wes Moore

CEO, Robin Hood Foundation (fmr)

Doug MacKenzie

Founder & Partner, Radar Partners

Ann MacDougall

President, Encore.org (fmr)

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Author & Dean of Freshmen, Stanford University (fmr)

Wendy Kopp

Founder & CEO, Teach for All

Gary E. Knell

CEO, National Geographic Society (fmr)

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor, Harvard Business School

Carrie Hessler-Radelet

Director, Peace Corps (fmr)

Kaya Henderson

Educator, Activist and Chancellor of the District of Colombia Public Schools (fmr)

Richard Celeste

U.S. Ambassador, Governor and University President (fmr)

Kathy Calvin

CEO, UN Foundation (fmr)

Michael Brown

Co-Founder, City Year

John M. Bridgeland

Founder & CEO, Civic

Jim Bildner

Managing Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Angel B. Pérez

CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling

Miguel McKelvey

Co-Founder, WeWork

Tom Crotty

Managing Partner, Battery Ventures (fmr)

Emeritus Board


Kim Wright-Violich

Managing Partner, Tideline; CEO, Echidna Giving

Gaye Montgomery

Founder, Montgomery Compliance Law, PLLC

Catherine Milton

Founder & Director, Haas Center for Public Service (fmr)

Stace Lindsay

President, Fusion Venture Partners

Renukha Kher

COO & Director T Lab, Tipping Point Community

Joan Hanawi

Strategic Manager for Social Impact, Lyft

Peter Esty (in memoriam)

School Head Dalton, Branson, and University High Schools (fmr)

Zach Clayton

Founder & CEO, Three Ships

Barker Carlock

Senior Technical Program Manager, Tesla

David Burke

Founder & CEO, Makena Capital Management (fmr)

Anne Marie Burgoyne

Managing Director, Emerson Collective

Gail Britton

Director, White House Fellow (fmr)

Neal Baer

Executive Producer, CBS Television

William A. Plapinger

Senior Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Carl F. Muñana

Former CEO, Inter-American Investment Corporation