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 Bollenbach
Retired Co-Chairman & CEO
Hilton Hotels Corporation

Maxine Clark
Founder and Chief Executive Bear
Build-A-Bear Workshop®

Don 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
Chief Executive Officer & 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

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

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
Chairman, President & CEO
Wachovia Corporation

John 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)
Senior Vice President
Seawall Development Company

Jason Fish (Bay Area)
Meritage Group

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

Paul Finnegan (Chicago)
Co-President
Madison Dearborn Partners


Robin Golden (Connecticut – New Haven)
Lecturer

Stephen F. Mandel, Jr. (Connecticut - Fairfield)
Managing Director
Lone Pine Capital

Neal Wolin (Connecticut – Hartford)
President and COO
Property and Casualty Operations
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

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

Joseph Aluise (Greater New Orleans)
Entergy Services, Inc.

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

H. Mitchell D'Olier (Hawaii)
President and CEO Kaneohe Ranch Management Limited

Michael Dee (Houston)
Retired, Managing Director
Morgan Stanley & Co.

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

Gregory F. 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 Scully (New York City)
Co-President
Morgan Stanley

Dana Zucker (Newark)

Connie Wilhelm (Phoenix)
President and 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
Build-A-Bear Workshop

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