Leadership & Staff

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President Emerita

Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald

Regional Director, Southern Regional Office

DD Eisenberg

Child Advocate

Dr. Deborah Jewell-Sherman

Director and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Martin Rodgers

Treasurer

Market Unit Lead – US South, Accenture

Lan Bentsen

Founder, Shape Tomorrow

Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder-in-Residence, PolicyLink

Malaak Compton-Rock

Founder & Director, The Angelrock Project

Alisha Porter

Minnesota State Director

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

President & CEO

Children’s Defense Fund