Richard J. Vierk, Chairman
Managing Director, Business Succession Planning
First National Bank of Omaha

Carolyn Akers
Executive Director
Mobile Area Education Foundation in Mobile, Ala.

Barbara Bartle
Executive Director
Lincoln Public Schools Foundation

Daniel Challener
President
Public Education Foundation in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Rudolph Crew

Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University

Luis Ricardo Fraga
Associate Professor of Political Science
Stanford University

Ellen Guiney
Executive Director
Boston Plan for Excellence

Ruth Holmberg
Retired Chairman
Chattanooga Times

Lee Kravitz
Former Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President
Parade Publications

Gloria Ladson-Billings
Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wendy D. Puriefoy
President
Public Education Network

Connie Rath
Vice Chair and Dean of Leadership
The Gallup Organization

Lata Reddy
Director of Programs and Operations
Prudential Foundation

Warren Simmons
Director of Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Brown University

Jon Snare
Chief Principal, Division of Wealth Management
Wells Fargo Bank

Chad P. Wick
President and CEO
KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Bob Wise
Former W.Va. Governor and President
Alliance for Excellent Education

Margaret Hiller (Ex-Officio)
Executive Director
Bridgeport Public Education Fund