Board of Advisors

Aileen Adams, Deputy Mayor, City of Los Angeles
Larry Baer, President and CEO, The San Francisco Giants
Rich Barton, Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Zillow.com
Richard I. Beattie, Chairman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
Geoffrey Canada, Founder and President, Harlem Children's Zone
Marcy Carsey, Founding Partner, Carsey-Werner Productions
Ramon Cortines, Former Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
James Coulter, Founding Partner, TPG Capital, L.P.
Yogen Dalal, Managing Director,The Mayfield Fund
Steven A. Denning, Founding Partner, General Atlantic Partners
Susan Ford Dorsey, President, Sand Hill Foundation
Millard Drexler, Chairman and CEO, J. Crew
Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, The National Institutes of Health
Robert J. Fisher, Director, GAP Inc.
Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Professor, School of Education, Harvard University
Terry Goddard, Former Attorney General, State of Arizona
Arjun Gupta, Founder and Managing Partner, TeleSoft Partners
Jim Herbert II, President and CEO, First Republic Bank
David Hornik, Partner, August Capital
Ron Johnson
David Lawrence Jr., President, The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation
Eddie Lazarus, Former Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission
Susan McCaw, Former U.S. Ambassador
Nion McEvoy, Chairman and CEO, Chronicle Books
Nell Minow, Founder, The Corporate Library and Movie Mom
Newton Minow, Counsel, Sidley, Austin and Brown; Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
James Montoya, Senior Vice President, The College Board
Becky Morgan, President, Morgan Family Foundation
Nancy Peretsman, Managing Director, Allen & Company Inc.
Philip Pizzo, M.D., Dean, School of Medicine, Stanford University
George Roberts, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Jesse Rogers, Founder, Altamont Capital
Carrie Schwab Pomerantz, President, Charles Schwab Foundation
Alan Schwartz, CEO, Guggenheim Partners
Marshall Smith, Senior Adviser, U.S. Department of Education
Quincy Smith, Founding Partner, CODE Advisors
Thomas Steyer, Founding Partner, Farallon Capital
Deborah Stipek, Professor, School of Education, Stanford University
Robert S. Townsend, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Laura Walker, President, WNYC Radio
Eugene Washington, M.D., Dean, School of Medicine, UCLA
Alice Waters, Founder, Chez Panisse and Chez Panisse Foundation
Robert Wehling, Founder, Family Friendly Programming Forum; Former Global Marketing Officer, Procter & Gamble
Tim Zagat, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Zagat Survey