Emma
Bloomberg, Chair
Senior
Manager for Planning, Robin Hood Foundation
Emma Bloomberg is the Senior Manager for
Planning at the Robin Hood Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting
poverty in the five boroughs of NYC. In this role, she is responsible for
developing and implementing Robin Hood's efforts on advocacy and public policy,
assisting the organizations funded by Robin Hood with long-term planning, and
managing pro bono consulting partnerships.
F.
Philip Handy
President
and CEO, Strategic Industries
F. Philip Handy is the Chief Executive Officer
of Strategic Industries, a portfolio of 18 companies in diversified service and
manufacturing businesses. All of the companies
have been significantly restructured and taken to a global presence and
enhanced profitability. Phillip is a
member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford
University, an Advisor to the Program on Education Policy and Governance at
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a Director of The Education
Equality Project. Until January, 2007,
he served for six years as Chairman of the Florida State Board of Education, a
seven person board appointed by Governor Jeb Bush, which has constitutional
responsibility for Florida’s public educational system (over 4 million
students).
Michael
L. Lomax, Ph. D.
President
and CEO, United Negro College Fund
Dr. Michael Lomax is president and chief
executive officer of UNCF, the nation's largest private provider of
scholarships and other educational support to minority and low-income students.
Before coming to UNCF, Michael was president of Dillard University in New
Orleans and a literature professor at Morehouse and Spelman colleges. He also
served as chairman of the Fulton County Commission in Atlanta, the first
African American elected to that post. Michael is co-chair of the Education
Equality Project, and serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Institution's
Museum of African American History and Culture and the Studio Museum of Harlem.
He founded the National Black Arts Festival.
Laurene
Powell Jobs
Board Chair,
College Track
Laurene Powell Jobs is founder and chair of the
Emerson Collective, an organization primarily focuses on achieving scalable
solutions to improve academic outcomes for under-resourced students in
America's public schools. The Emerson
Collective has made strategic investments in a number of results-driven
education reform ventures. Prior to her
work with the Emerson Collective, Laurene founded College Track in 1997, an
after- school program designed to prepare underserved high school students for
success in college. All of the program's graduates have completed their
secondary education and gone on to college, and the program has expanded from
East Palo Alto to Oakland, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Don
Washburn
Private
Equity Investor
Don
Washburn is a private equity investor who has held executive positions at
Northwest Airlines, Inc.; the Marriott Corp.; Booz, Allen & Hamilton; and
The Quaker Oats Company. In addition to his involvement in Stand for Children,
Don is a member of the Board of Directors of several companies and non-profits,
including the Portland Citizens' Commission on Homelessness, the Portland
Citizens' Crime Commission, Northwestern University Law School, LaSalle Hotel
Properties, Key Technology, Inc., and Amedisys, Inc.