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Board of Governors

Chair
Roderick D. Gillum, Esq.
Vice President
Corporate Responsibility & Diversity
General Motors Corporation

Vice Chair
William E. Kennard, Esq.
Managing Director
The Carlyle Group

Vice Chair
Dianne Pinderhughes, Ph.D.
Professor, Africana Studies
and Political Science
Presidential Faculty Fellow
University of Notre Dame

Secretary
Jacqulyn C. Shropshire
President/Owner
Momentum Unlimited

Treasurer
David C. Chavern, Esq.
Chief Operating Officer
and Executive Vice President
United States Chamber
of Commerce

President
Ralph B. Everett, Esq.
President and CEO
Joint Center for Political
and Economic Studies

Norma Ketay Asnes
President
Ketay Asnes Productions

Donna Brazile
Founder and Managing Director
Brazile & Associates LLC

Dwight L. Bush
Managing Director
D.L. Bush & Associates

Sanford Cloud, Jr., Esq.
Chairman and CEO
The Cloud Company, LLC

John W. Franklin
Director of Partnerships
and International Programs
National Museum of African
and American History
and Culture
Smithsonian Institution

Robert L. Mallett, Esq.
Former Senior Vice President,
Worldwide Policy and Public
Affairs, Pfizer, Inc.
Former President of The Pfizer
Foundation

Cynthia G. Marshall
President
AT&T North Carolina

Marva Smalls
Executive Vice President
of Global Inclusion Strategy,
MTV Networks & Executive
Vice President of Public
Affairs, and Chief of Staff
Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids
& Family Group

Earl W. Stafford
Chief Executive Officer
The Wentworth Group LLC

Reed V. Tuckson, M.D., FACP
Executive Vice President
and Chief of Medical Affairs
UnitedHealth Group

The Honorable Paul R. Webber, 3rd
Senior Judge
D.C. Superior Court

Robert L. Wright, O.D.
Chairman
Flight Explorer

Cynthia M. Bodrick
Assistant Secretary
of the Corporation

 

Members Emeriti

 

Dr. William B. Boyd
President Emeritus
The Johnson Foundation

Eddie N. Williams
President
Eddie Williams
and Associates, LLC

James D. Wolfensohn
President & CEO
Wolfensohn and Company

 

Founders

 

Kenneth B. Clark †
Served from 1970 to 2005

Louis E. Martin †
Served from 1970 to 1997

 

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