Individual

Title

Education Committee

Ray Shepard, Chair

Educational Publisher, Former Editor-in-Chief, School Division K-12, Houghton Mifflin

Roscoe C. Brown

Director of Urban Education Policy, City University of New York

Michael W. Frisch

Professor of History & American Studies, University at Buffalo

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Chair of African American Studies Department, Director of W.E.B. DuBois Institute of African and African American Research at Harvard University

Walter Leonard

Educator, Wolfson College, Oxford University

Ruth Love

Educator, Former Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools and President, RBL Enterprises

Barbara Radner

Director, DePaul University Center for Urban Education

Dr. Louis Sullivan

President Emeritus, Morehouse College, School of Medicine

Corporate Committee

Genelle Trader, Chair

Marketing and Strategic Planning Executive

Alfreda Bradley-Coar

General Counsel, GE Healthcare

Cheryl Blackwell Bryson

Attorney at Law, Duane Morris & Heckscher, LLP

Cleveland A. Christophe

Managing Partner, TSG Ventures, LP

Lester Coney

Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director in the Office of the Chairman, Mesirow Financial

Ingrid Saunders Jones

Senior Vice President, The Coca Cola Company

Robert Graham

Partner, Jenner & Block

Larry Green

Vice President, Winston & Green

George Knox

Retired Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Philip Morris Companies, Inc

Ralph G. Moore

President, Ralph G. Moore Associates, Inc.

Sharon Morrow

Senior Vice President of Marketing, Smith Whiley & Company

Dana Rice

Counsel, Schiff Hardin LLP

Joseph E. Robert, Jr.

Founder & CEO, J.E. Robert Companies

Deborah D. Thomas

Former Vice President, Northern Trust Company

Sheila Wilson-Freelon

Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Discover Financial Services, LLC

Joset Wright

Senior Director of Institutional Advancement, Orchard Village

Media Committee

Julianna T. Cole, Chair

Chief Technology Officer, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.

Clarence Avant

Recording Executive, Former Chairman of Motown Records  

Reuben Cannon

Producer and Casting Director

Donald J. Jackson

President, Central City Productions, Inc.

Bonnie L. Krueger

Publishing Director, Sophisticate's Black Hair Magazine

Katherine Lauderdale

Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Public Broadcasting Service

Roland Martin

Cable Network Commentator, CNN/TV One

Dionne Warwick

Entertainer and Humanitarian Activist

Advertising/Marketing/PR Committee

Patricia Andrews-Keenan

Vice President Communications/Community Affairs, Nielsen Media Research

Marc Brooks

Chairman and CEO, MKMB Corporation

Michelle Oldham

President/CEO, MAHDLO

Carol H. Sagers

Director, U.S. Marketing, McDonald’s Corporation

Library Archives

Walter B. Hill, Jr., Chair

Senior Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration

Lonnie G. Bunch

Director, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution

Mary Marshall Clark

Director, Oral History Research Office of Columbia University

Howard Dodson

Chief, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Russell Lewis

Executive Vice President and Chief Historian, Chicago History Museum

Mary Sauer Games

Vice President Chadwyck-Healey Publishing, ProQuest, CSA

John Unsworth

Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Howard Wactlar

Director, Informedia Digital Video Library Project, Carnegie Mellon University

Civic Committee

Dr. Henry Betts

Physician, Chairman of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Foundation

Thomas W. Dortch, Jr.

President and CEO of TWD, Inc and Former National Chairman of 100 Black Men

Willie Iles

Group Director, Development, Boy Scouts of America

Senate President Emil Jones, Jr.

State Senate, State of Illinois

Barbara McKinzie

Centennial National President, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Cornell Leverette Moore

Grand Sire Archon, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Omicron Boule

Peyton Williams

Executive Secretary, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity