Board of Directors

Angela Glover Blackwell, Esq. Co-Chair
Founder and CEO
PolicyLink Oakland, CA
Bryan Stevenson, Esq.
Founder and Executive Director
Equal Justice Initiative Montgomery, AL
Carol Oughton Biondi
Board Member
California State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention/ Board Member, ARC (Anti-Recidivism Coalition) Los Angeles, CA
DD Eisenberg
Child Advocate
Coral Gables, FL
Deborah Jewell-Sherman
Director
Urban Superintendents Program and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
George Gresham
President
1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Bronx, NY
Ivanna Omeechevarria
Child Advocate
Alexandria, VA
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Actress
Los Angeles, CA
Lan Bentsen, Co-Chair
Founder
Shape Tomorrow Houston, TX
Laphonza Butler
President
Service Employees International Union-United Long Term Care Workers (SEIU-ULTCW) Los Angeles, CA
Malaak Compton-Rock
Founder and Director
The Angelrock Project New York, NY
Marian Wright Edelman
President

Martin Rodgers
Managing Director, Executive Director
Managing Director for Health & Public Service Southeast, Executive Director of Accenture’s Nonprofit Group and International Public Sector Practice Washington, DC, Arlington, VA