Leadership & Staff

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President Emerita

Laphonza Butler

Partner

SCRB Strategies Los Angeles, CA

DD Eisenberg

Child Advocate

Coral Gables, FL

George Gresham

President

1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Bronx, NY

Ruth-Ann Huvane, Vice-Chair

Child Advocate

Los Angeles, CA

Deborah Jewell-Sherman

Director

Urban Superintendents Program and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Ivanna Omeechevarria, Secretary

Child Advocate

Alexandria, VA

Martin Rodgers, Treasurer

Senior Managing Director — US Southeast and Metro Washington, DC Office Managing Director

Accenture Washington, DC, Arlington, VA

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Actor and Child Advocate

Los Angeles, CA

Bryan Stevenson, Esq.

Founder and Executive Director

Equal Justice Initiative Montgomery, AL

Lan Bentsen

Founder

Shape Tomorrow Houston, TX

Carol Oughton Biondi

Board Member

California State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention/ Board Member, ARC (Anti-Recidivism Coalition) Los Angeles, CA

Angela Glover Blackwell, Chair

Founder in Residence

PolicyLink Oakland, CA

Malaak Compton-Rock

Founder and Director

The Angelrock Project New York, NY

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

President and CEO

Deborah Cogut

Co-Founder and Vice Chair

The Polyphony Foundation Greenwich, CT