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

Reginald Weaver

President, The National Education Association

Corporate Committee

Genelle Trader, Chair

Marketing and Strategic Planning Executive

Lekan A. Ayanbule

Vice President Analytics & Design Group, JP Morgan Chase Bank

Karen Hardwick

President, The Hardwick Group LLC

Ingrid Saunders Jones

Senior Vice President, The Coca Cola Company

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

Media Committee

Julianna T. Cole, Chair

Chief Technology Officer, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.

Reuben Cannon

Producer and Casting Director 

Donald J. Jackson

President, Central City Productions, Inc.

Katherine Lauderdale

Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Public Broadcasting Service

Roland Martin

Cable Network Commentator, CNN/TV One

Paul Roston

President, Roscor Corporation

Advertising/Marketing/PR Committee

Esther Franklin

EVP, Director of Cultural Identities, Starcom Media Vest Group

William Griffin

CEO, H20-HIP HOP On Demand

Carol H. Sagers

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

Cynthia Stamstad

Marketing Programs Manager, LexisNexis

Library Archives

Lonnie G. Bunch

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

Mary Marshall Clark

Director, Oral History Research Office of Columbia University

Chief, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Russell Lewis

Executive Vice President and Chief Historian, Chicago History Museum

James Lindner

Founder & Chairman of the Board, Media Matters LLC, SAMMA Systems, Inc.

James Briggs Murray

Curator, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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

Civic Committee

Clarence Avant

Recording Executive, Former Chairman of Motown Records

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.

Former State Senate President, State of Illinois

Barbara McKinzie

Centennial National President, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Peyton Williams

Executive Secretary, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity