Leadership & Staff

Board of Directors

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Board of Directors

Dr. Carmen Rojas

Chair

President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation
Clay Grubb

W. Clay Grubb

Vice Chair

CEO, Grubb Properties
Martin Rodgers

Martin Rodgers

Treasurer

Market Unit Lead – US South, Accenture
Deborah Cogut

Deborah Strauss Cogut

Secretary

Founder, Polyphony Foundation

Lan Bentsen

Founder, Shape Tomorrow

Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder-in-Residence, PolicyLink

Zachary Boyers

Chairman & CEO, US Bancorp Impact Finance

Rev. Dr. Don Darius Butler

Pastor, First Missionary Baptist Church (Huntsville, AL)

Malaak Compton-Rock

Founder & Director, The Angelrock Project

DD Eisenberg

Child Advocate

Dr. Deborah Jewell-Sherman

Director and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Dr. Starsky Wilson

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

President & CEO

Children’s Defense Fund

CDF Board Emeriti

The Honorable Laphonza Butler,
Chair, 2022 – 2023
Geoffrey Canada,
Chair, 2008 – 2014
Lisle Carter, Jr.*
Laura Chasin*
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Esq.
Chair, 1986 – 1992
Maureen Cogan
Deborah S. Cogut, Esq.
Leonard Coleman, Jr.
Leslie Cornfeld, Esq.
Leslee Dart
John Deardourff*
Pat Fallon*
Rev. James Forbes, Jr.
James Forman, Jr., Esq.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Winifred Green*
George Gresham
Lucy Hackney, Esq.
Henry Hampton*
Howard Haworth*
Dorothy Height*
David Hornbeck, Esq.
Chair, 1994 – 2005
Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, Jr.
The Honorable James Joseph*,
Chair, 1993 – 1994
Deborah Leff, Esq.
Marilyn Levitt
William Lynch, Jr.*
Katie McGrath
Charles Merrill, Jr.
Heidi Miller
Eileen Norton
Ivanna Omeechevarria

Wendy Puriefoy
Leonard Riggio
Dennis Rivera
Johnathan Rodgers
The Honorable Donna E. Shalala,
Chair, 1992 – 1993
Barbara Shaw
J. Michael Solar, Esq.
Susan Thomases, Esq.
Thomas Troyer, Esq.
Jason Tyler
Robert Vagt,
Chair, 2005 – 2008
Laura Wasserman
Suzanne Weil
Ali Wentworth
Abigail Wexner, Esq.
Reese Witherspoon
Deborah Wright, Esq.

*deceased