Board of Directors and National Advisory Board
Educators for Social Responsibility Board of Directors
Barry Berman – Chief Financial Officer (Retired), Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP – Boston, MA
Sheldon Berman – Superintendent, Eugene Public Schools – Eugene, OR
Carol Bershad – Senior Curriculum/Instructional Design Associate, Education Development Center, Inc. – Newton, MA
Deborah Childs-Bowen – Executive Director, Alliance for Leadership in Education – Atlanta, GA
Larry Dieringer – Executive Director, Educators for Social Responsibility – Cambridge, MA
Larrie Hall – Chief Personnel Officer, NEWCorp (New Education for the Workplace, Inc.) – Oceanside, CA
Rhonda Hall – Academic Director, Lyndon Baines Johnson High School – Austin, Texas
Janice Jackson – Independent Education Consultant – Boston, MA
Mariko Lockhart – Director, Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative – Seattle, WA
Kathi Mullen – Special Assistant to the President, Granite State College – Rochester, NH
Jenny Nagaoka – Associate Director and Post-Secondary Studies Manager of the Chicago Postsecondary Transition Project, a project of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration – Chicago, IL
Jan Phlegar – Executive Director, Learning Innovations at WestEd – Woburn, MA
Leslie Rennie-Hill – Education Consultant, LRH Consulting – Portland, OR
Adria Steinberg – Vice President, Jobs for the Future – Boston, MA
Nancy Wilsker – Attorney, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP – Boston, MA
Susan Yonezawa – Associate Director, University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence – San Diego, CA
Educators for Social Responsibility National Advisory Board
Sheldon Berman – Superintendent, Eugene (OR) Public Schools
Gene Carter – Executive Director and CEO, ASCD
James Comer – Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center and Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine
Linda Darling-Hammond – Charles Ducommun Professor of Education and Co-Director, School Redesign Network, Stanford University School of Education
Marian Wright Edelman – President, Children’s Defense Fund
Roger Fisher – Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Daniel Goleman – Author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence
Maxine Greene – Professor Emerita, Teachers College, Columbia University
Eileen Rockefeller Growald – Founder, Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
Michael Hartoonian – Scholar in Residence, Hamline University; Former Professor, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota
Mary Hatwood-Futrell – Former President, National Education Association; Professor and Dean, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University
Fr. Theodore Hesburgh – President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Jonathan Kozol – Author of Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and The Shame of the Nation
Deborah Meier – Author of The Power of Their Ideas; Founding Principal, Mission Hill School and Central Park East School; Faculty Member, New York University
Gabriella Morris – President, The Prudential Foundation
Sonia Nieto – Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, author of Affirming Diversity
Pedro Noguera – Professor of Education, New York University; Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
Robert Peterkin – Director, Urban Superintendents Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Deborah Prothrow-Stith – Associate Dean and Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
Charles Slater – Professor, College of Education, California State University Long Beach




