Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship First Commission Meeting April 3, 2018 House of the Academy

Danielle Allen is Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens(2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014), and Education and Equality (2016). She is the co- editor of the award-winning Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013, with Rob Reich) and From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital Age (2015, with Jennifer Light). She is a Chair of the Mellon Foundation Board, past Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and a member of the Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs Board, as well as a member of the American Philosophical Society. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Sayu Bhojwani is the Founder and President of New American Leaders, an organization working to recruit and train diverse candidates for election and improve the political system. As an advocate, speaker and writer, she engages people in public debate and in the democratic process. Sayu served as New York City’s first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs and is the founder of South Asian Youth Action. She is also currently a Visiting Scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The National, and Medium. Philip Bredesen served as the 48th Governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011. During his tenure, he led changes in Tennessee’s higher education system, including establishing a strong academic relationship between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, clarifying and rationalizing the course structure in the community college system, and changing the funding formula for higher education to incentivize student retention and college completion. In the field of health care, he established a broad children’s insurance program, as well as innovative small business and individual health insurance offerings. He is recognized for his

commitment to fiscal management, successfully recruiting corporate headquarters and multibillion-dollar investments to his state and reforming an out-of-control Medicaid Program. He is also known for his commitment to conservation issues, and during his term preserved nearly 300,000 acres of ecologically sensitive land. From 1991 to 1999, he served as Mayor of Nashville. Prior to his time in public office, he was a businessman and entrepreneur. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and was a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Lincoln Project. Caroline Brettell is the Ruth Collins Altshuler Professor of Anthropology, as well as the Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institue at Southern Methodist University. She joined the faculty of Southern Methodist University in 1988. In 2003, she was named Dedman Family Distinguished Professor and in 2009 University Distinguished Professor. She served as Director of Women's Studies from 1989-1994 and as Chair of Anthropology from 1994-2004, as well as Dean ad Interim of Dedman College, 2006-2008. In 2000-2001, she served as President of the Social Science History Association and between 1996 and 1998, she was President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE). She served as President of the SMU Faculty Senate and as a member of the SMU Board of Trustees in 2001-2002. She served as a member of the selection committee for the International Dissertation Research Program for the Social Science Research Council (2003-2005) and for their International Migration Program (2000- 2002). She has also served as a member of SNEM-3 Scientific Review Panel, National Institute of Health (1999-2003). Her books include “Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants” (co-authored with Deborah Reed-Danahay) and “Gender and Migration,” and she co-edited, “Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find their Space” with Faith G. Nibbs. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. His column appears every Tuesday and Friday. He is currently a commentator on “PBS NewsHour,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He is the author of “Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There” and “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.” In March 2011 he came out with his third book, “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement,” which was a No. 1 New York Times best seller.Mr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. Alan M. Dachs is President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Fremont Group, a San Francisco-based private investment firm. Mr. Dachs is a member of the Boards of Directors of Bechtel Group, Inc., the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, and PIX System, LLC. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution. He is on the Board of Trustees of MIT Corporation and serves on the Corporation Visiting Committees for the Dean for Undergraduate Education; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Sponsored Research; and Chemical Engineering. Mr. Dachs is Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board. He serves on the Board of Trustees of The Landmark School. Mr. Dachs is Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan

University. Mr. Dachs was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2007. He is Chair of the Academy’s Trust, and Vice Chair of its Board of Directors. Dee Davis is the Founder and President of the Center for Rural Strategies. Dee has helped design and lead national public information campaigns on topics as diverse as commercial television programming and federal banking policy. Dee began his media career in 1973 as a trainee at Appalshop, an arts and cultural center devoted to exploring Appalachian life and social issues in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Dee went on to serve as executive producer of Appalshop Films and Headwaters Television. During his tenure, the organization created more than 50 public TV documentaries, established a media training program for Appalachian youth, and launched initiatives that use media as a strategic tool in organization and development. Dee served as president and chairman of the board of the Independent Television Service, president of Kentucky Citizens for the Arts, and as a panelist and consultant to numerous private and public agencies. Dee serves on the board of directors of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Fund for Innovative Television, and Feral Arts of Brisbane, Australia. He is also a member of the national advisory boards of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI). Paul Erickson is the Program Director for Arts, Humanities, and American Institutions at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining the Academy in September 2016, he served for nine years as the Director of Academic Programs at the American Antiquarian Society, an independent research library of pre-20th-century American history, literature, and culture located in Worcester, MA. There he managed the Society’s fellowship programs, conferences, academic seminars, undergraduate courses, and directed the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture and the Center for Historic American Visual Culture. He also oversaw the publication of the innovative online journal of early American history and culture Common-place. He has worked in publishing, organization design consulting, and for the Social Science Research Council’s Program on International Peace and Security. He serves on the program committee of the Bibliographical Society of America and the nominations committee of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and has served on the executive committee of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and as co-chair of the 2016 conference program committee for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture 2016. Jonathan F. Fanton has been the President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since July 1, 2014. Previously, he served as the Interim Director and Franklin Roosevelt Visiting Fellow at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. Immediately prior to this position he served as the President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 1999 to 2009. Dr. Fanton was President of the New School for Social Research for seventeen years and also held the position of Vice President for Planning at the University of Chicago. Earlier in his career, Dr. Fanton was Chief of Staff to Yale University President Kingman Brewster. Dr. Fanton has served on numerous nonprofit boards. Currently he is on the Africa Advisory Committee for Human Rights Watch, Chair of Scholars at Risk, and on the Boards of the Asian Cultural Council and the Benjamin Franklin House. Dr. Fanton is past Chair

of Human Rights Watch, Security Council Report, The Union Square Development Corporation, and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in New York. Dr. Fanton is the author of Foundations and Civil Society, Volume I and II, and The University and Civil Society. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. Sam Gill is the Vice President for Communities and Impact and a Senior Adviser to the President at the Knight Foundation. Prior to this he served as vice president of Freedman Consulting LLC. He is also the co-founder of Next Century Cities – a national coalition of cities working towards providing next-generation Internet networks. He is the author of numerous project reports, including “A Future of Failure? The Flow of Technology Talent Into Government and Civil Society” and “The Collaborative City: How Partnerships Between Public and Private Sectors Can Achieve Common Goals.” His other writings have appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Foundation Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Politico, and The Los Angeles Times, among others. Hahrie Han is the Anton Vonk Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in the study of civic and political participation, collective action, organizing, and social change, particularly as it pertains to social policy, environmental issues, and democratic revitalization. Hahrie has also been involved in numerous efforts to make academic work relevant to the world of practice, including (most recently) participating in the Social Science Research Council Anxieties of Democracy Participation Working Group; co- chairing the Research Council of the PICO National Network, serving on the advisory board of organizations like research4impact, the Climate Advocacy Lab, Citizens Climate Lobby, and the DEMOS Integrated Race and Class Narrative Project; serving as the Co-Chair of the Civic Engagement Working Group at the Scholars Strategy Network; co-founding and co-directing the Project on Public Leadership and Action at Wellesley College, and participating on the steering committee of the Gettysburg Project. She has published three books: How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century, Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America, and Moved to Action: Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics. Her award-winning work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and numerous other outlets. Stephen Heintz has been President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2001. Before joining the RBF, he held top leadership positions in both the nonprofit and public sectors. He was founding president of Dēmos, a public policy research and advocacy organization working to enhance the vitality of American democracy and promote more broadly shared prosperity. Prior to founding Dēmos, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the EastWest Institute, where he worked on issues of economic reform, civil society development, and international security. Based in Prague, Czech Republic, from 1990 through 1997, he worked extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. He devoted the first 15 years of his career to politics and government service in the State of Connecticut, where he served as commissioner of economic development and commissioner of social welfare. In 1988, he helped draft and secure passage by Congress of "The Family Support

Act," the first major effort to reform the nation's welfare system. He currently serves on the boards of the EastWest Institute, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and The American Prospect. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Nonprofit Times has consistently named him one of the 50 most influential leaders of the nonprofit sector. In 2012, President Bronisław Komorowski of Poland granted him the Officer’s Cross - Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to building civil society and democratic institutions in Poland. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Antonia Hernandez is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the California Community Foundation. She assumed that role in 2004, after working 23 years for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, ending her tenure there as president and general counsel. She began her career as a staff attorney for the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice and has also worked with the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. She serves on the boards of directors of the Automobile Club of Southern California, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association, Grameen America and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She also serves as a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the UCLA Board of Advisors, and the JFK Library Foundation Profile in Courage Award Committee. She is a member of the State Bar of California, District of Columbia Bar, American Bar Association and the Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles and a is fellow of the American Law Institute. Wallace B. Jefferson served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas prior to joining Alexander Dubose Jefferson & Townsend in 2013. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 2001 and named Chief Justice in 2004, Jefferson made Texas judicial history as the Court’s first African- American Justice and Chief Justice. He led the Court’s efforts to fund access to justice programs; helped reform juvenile justice; and inaugurated a statewide electronic filing system for Texas courts. During his time on the bench, Jefferson was elected President of the Conference of Chief Justices, an association of chief justices from the 50 states and U.S. territories. He is Treasurer of the American Law Institute, Chair of the Texas Commission to Expand Civil Legal Services, and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Judicial Selection Initiative. Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1993, Jefferson has twice won cases he argued in the Supreme Court of the United States. Jefferson has been honored with the 2014 Texas Center for Legal Ethics Chief Justice Jack Pope Professionalism Award, the 2014 Texas Appleseed J. Chrys Dougherty Good Apple Award, and the 2015 Anti-Defamation League Austin Jurisprudence Award.. In 2016, he was honored with the Presidential Citation Award from The University of Texas. This award recognizes extraordinary contributions of individuals who personify the university’s commitment to transforming lives. He is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Best Lawyers in America, and Texas Super Lawyers. Joseph Kahne is the Ted and Jo Dutton Presidential Professor of Education Policy and Politics at the University of California, Riverside. He studies the ways school practices and youth engagement with digital media influence the quality and equality of youth civic and political engagement. Currently, drawing on a nationally representative panel survey of youth, he is

studying the impact of civic media literacy learning opportunities and the degree to which they are equitably distributed. Together with colleagues, he is also working with district leaders to institutionalize district-wide commitments to civic education in Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, and, soon, Riverside. He is also studying these reform efforts and their impact. He sits on the steering committee of the National Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools and is an advisor to many civically oriented school reform efforts. He is the author of numerous articles, and the book Reframing Education Policy: Democracy, Community, and the Individual. His op-eds and blog posts have appeared in The Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Education Week. Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg became the Director of CIRCLE in April 2015, after joining CIRCLE in 2008 as the Lead Researcher and serving as Deputy Director since 2013. Kei directs CIRCLE’s mission and strategies by working with various stakeholders and overseeing CIRCLE’s key research and dissemination efforts. Kei was a key author of CIRCLE reports such as Taking the Lead: How Educators Can Help Close the Gender Leadership Gap (with NEA and AAUW), All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement, Pathways into Leadership: A Study of YouthBuild Graduates (with YouthBuild USA), and Civic Health and Unemployment II: The Case Builds (with NCOC). Kei applies her expertise in positive youth development and community psychology to youth civic and political development, and how diverse young people interact with the community and cultural contexts as they learn to participate in civic life. Before coming to CIRCLE, Kei was involved in a major meta-analysis of social-emotional learning programs for children and adolescents. Kei is a proud member of Nonprofit Vote’s Leadership Council. Yuval Levin is the editor of National Affairs. He is also the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a senior editor of The New Atlantis, and a contributing editor to National Review and the Weekly Standard. He has been a member of the White House domestic policy staff (under President George W. Bush), executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics, and a congressional staffer. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and others, and he is the author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left and, most recently, of The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism. Eric Liu is the founder and CEO of Citizen University and executive director of the Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program. His books include the national bestsellers The Gardens of Democracy, and The True Patriot, co-authored with Nick Hanauer. Eric’s most recent book is You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen. His first book, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, was a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary “Matters of Race.” His other books include A Chinaman’s Chance: One Family’s Journey and the Chinese American Dream; Guiding Lights: How to Mentor – and Find Life’s Purpose, the Official Book of National Mentoring Month; and Imagination First, co-authored with Scott Noppe-Brandon of the Lincoln Center Institute. He served as a White House speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and

later as the President’s deputy domestic policy adviser. After the White House, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks. He also serves on numerous nonprofit and civic boards. He is the co-founder of the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility and is a board member of the Corporation for National and Community Service. He is a regular columnist for CNN.com and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer is the Executive Director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, an organization that works to reduce political dysfunction and incivility in our political system. She previously served as Founder and President of AmericaSpeaks, an award-winning nonprofit organization that promoted nonpartisan initiatives to engage citizens and leaders through the development of innovative public policy tools and strategies. During her tenure, AmericaSpeaks engaged more than 165,000 people and hosted events across all 50 states and throughout the world. She formerly served as Consultant to the White House Chief of Staff from 1993-94 and on the National Performance Review where she steered internal management and oversaw government-wide reforms. She was the Chief of Staff to Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste from 1986-91, becoming the first woman to serve in this capacity. Martha McCoy is Executive Director of Everyday Democracy and President of The Paul J. Aicher Foundation. Under her leadership, Everyday Democracy has become one of the leading organizations in the U.S. that supports communities in solving problems equitably and inclusively. The organization collaborates with local, regional and national groups that are organizing for public dialogue for community change and democratic governance, through the lens of racial, economic, and social equity. Everyday Democracy is currently working on two large-scale initiatives: one on educational equity (with the Nellie Mae Education Foundation) and one on policing, racial equity, and community-police relations. McCoy serves on a number of advisory boards, including the advisory board of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, the executive committee of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, the national advisory board for the Center for Community Trustbuilding, and the advisory board for the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at the Hillerman Center, Brandeis University. She is on the national steering committee for Creating Community Solutions, part of the National Dialogue on Mental Health. She is an advisory editor for the community building department of the National Civic Review. She is a frequent writer and speaker on grass-roots civic engagement, participatory governance, ways to create inclusive conversations about structural racism, and on U.S. and global movements for stronger democracy. Steven Olikara is a political entrepreneur and the Founding President of the Millennial Action Project (MAP), a national, nonpartisan organization dedicated to activating millennial policymakers to overcome partisan gridlock. Steven also serves as Senior Adviser to multi- platinum recording artist Akon's Lighting Africa, an initiative that has electrified over one million homes in Africa with solar power. A nationally recognized leader and political commentator, Steven has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NBC News, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many other media outlets. Previously, Steven served as Truman Fellow at the World Bank focusing on sustainable energy and advised eight-time Grammy winner Usher’s Foundation on global youth initiatives. He also served as the Harry Ott

Fellow on Coca-Cola’s Environment Team, spearheading public-private water projects with USAID in Africa. He serves on the Boards of The Constitution Project, Issue One, the University of Wisconsin International Division, and the African Middle Eastern Leadership (AMEL) Project, as well as the Leadership Council of the Service Year Alliance and the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards Committee. Steven has been recognized as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, Forbes 30 Under 30, the Millennial of the Year, an Aspen Institute Ideas Scholar, and one of the Most Influential Leaders Under 40 by Washington Life magazine. Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is a long-time observer and scholar of Congress and politics. He writes a weekly column for National Journal and The Atlantic called "Washington Inside Out.” For thirty years, he was an election eve analyst for CBS News; in 2012, he was a principal on-air election eve analyst for BBC News. He served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and participates in AEI's Election Watch series. He also serves as a senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission. Mr. Ornstein led a working group of scholars and practitioners that helped shape the law, known as McCain-Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and in 2006 received the 2006 Goodnow lifetime achievement Award from the American Political Science Association for service to the political science profession. His most recent publication, the New York Times bestseller, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, written with Tom Mann was named Book of the Year by Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog, one of the ten best books on politics in 2012 by The New Yorker, and one of the best books of 2012 by the Washington Post. Ornstein was spotlighted as one of 2012’s 100 Top Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and is chair of the Stewarding America Project. Bob Peck is a Managing Director of FPR Partners, a private investment partnership focused on public equities. Prior to founding the firm in 2003, Bob managed capital of the Perot and Murchison families in Dallas, Texas. Bob is on the boards of the Fremont Group, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Princeton University Investment Company, and Crystal Springs Uplands School. Pete Peterson is the Dean of, and a Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. He was the first executive director of the bi-partisan organization Common Sense California, which, in 2010 became the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine University. Along with teaching a class on the subject at Pepperdine, Peterson co- developed the Davenport Institute's full and half-day training seminars which have been offered to over 1,000 public sector leaders in the last five years. He's also consulted on many participatory governance projects throughout California on issues ranging from budgets to water policy. Pete serves on the advisory boards of California's Institute for Local Government, and the Public Policy Institute of California, as well as the DaVinci Charter Schools in Hawthorne, CA. Miles Rapoport is currently the Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to his appointment to the Ash Center, Rapoport worked as an advocate for democracy expansion and reform in a number of capacities. He served as President of the independent grassroots

organization Common Cause, and prior to that, headed the public policy center Demos for thirteen years. Rapoport spent fifteen years in Connecticut government and politics. He served as Connecticut’s Secretary of the State from 1995-1999, where he led efforts on behalf of voter registration expansion and campaign finance reform. During his tenure, the office published The State of Democracy in Connecticut, an assessment and blueprint for democratic reform in the state. Before that he spent ten years in the Connecticut House of Representatives, representing West Hartford and serving as Chair of the Elections Committee, a member of the Finance Committee, and Assistant Majority Leader. Rapoport writes a regular column on democracy issues for The American Prospect magazine, and serves on its board. He is the Board Chair of State Voices, a national coordinating body for state-based voter registration efforts. He serves as a board member of Demos, the Scherman Foundation, and the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (Everyday Democracy). Michael Schudson is a Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1980 and at the University of California, San Diego from 1980 to 2009. He is the author of seven books and co-editor of three others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, Watergate and cultural memory. He is the recipient of a number of honors; he has been a Guggenheim fellow, a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellow. His most recent books are The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency 1945-1975 (Harvard, 2015) and (with C.W. Anderson and Leonard Downie, Jr.), The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2016). In fall, 2018 Columbia University Press will publish his (co-edited with David Pozen) “Troubling Transparency: The History and Future of Freedom of Information" and Polity Press will publish his “Why Journalism Still Matters." He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. Natoschia Scruggs is the Program Officer for The Humanities, Arts, and Culture; Education and the Development of Knowledge; and American Institutions, Society, and the Public Good. She has held positions over the years in academia, at NGOs, and in government. Just prior to coming to the Academy, Natoschia served nearly five years as principal advisor on research to Ambassador Susan Rice, Ambassador Samantha Power, and Ambassador Nikki Haley at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. Sterling Speirn is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Conference on Citizenship. Speirn was appointed Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Directors in November 2017. He is the immediate past President and CEO of the Peninsula Community Foundation now the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (PCF, 1992-2005), the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF, 2006- 2013), and the Stupski Foundation (2015). Before his career in community, private and family foundations, Mr. Speirn got started in corporate philanthropy leading the Community Grants program at Apple Computer (1986-1990). For several years he served as co-chairman of the national D5 coalition on Diversity in Philanthropy. At PCF he founded the Center for Venture Philanthropy, created the Peninsula Partnership for Children, Youth and Families, and launched the Raising a Reader take-home book program which today operates in 34 states at 2,700 sites

serving more than 125,000 children annually. At WKKF he helped launch America Healing, a five-year, $75 million initiative to support programs that promote racial equity and address structural racism and helped create a $100 million Mission Driven Investment Fund that built a remarkable portfolio of private double bottom line investments in alignment with the foundations programmatic and place-based focus areas He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington Community Foundation and the DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is a member of the Racial Equity Working Group of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers. Speirn began his career as a 7th and 8th grade English Teacher in Cleveland, Ohio. He also has worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C.; practiced law in North Carolina; and managed a large community health center in Arcata, California. Rob Townsend is director of the Washington office of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the Humanities Indicators (with Norman Bradburn). Prior to the Academy, he spent 24 years at the American Historical Association as deputy director and director of research and publications. He is the author of History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization and the Historical Enterprise, 1880–1940 (which received the 2014 Book Award from the National Council on Public History), and over 200 articles on various aspects of the humanities, higher education, and scholarly publishing. Ben Vinson is the Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. Elected to the National Humanities Center board of trustees in 2013, Dean Vinson’s scholarship focuses on colonial Mexico, especially the African presence in Mexico. He has authored and co-authored several books and numerous articles on a variety of topics including slavery in Latin America, the military participation of blacks in militias, free black populations in Mexico, African American experiences in Mexico and Afro-Mexican experiences in the United States. His latest book, Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico, examines the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. Prior to his arrival at GW in 2013, Dean Vinson was the vice dean for centers, interdepartmental program, and graduate programs at the Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. As a member of the Hopkins’ faculty since 2006, he was the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American History and a former director of the university’s Center for Africana Studies. Before his tenure at Johns Hopkins, Dean Vinson held faculty positions at Penn State University and Barnard College. He has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, National Humanities Center, Social Science Research Council, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Ford, Rockefeller and Mellon foundations.

Diane P. Wood is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to her judicial appointment in 1995, she was the Green Professor of International Legal Studies at the University of Chicago Law School, where she also served as associate dean from 1989–1992. From 1993–1995, she was deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She clerked for Judge Irving L. Goldberg of the Fifth Circuit and for Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. Currently, she sits on the Council of the American Law Institute and serves on the Board of the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, an organization devoted to teaching elementary and secondary school students about the U.S. legal system. From 2007 to

2013, she served as a member of the Judicial Conference’s Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure. Wood is a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and serves as a member of its Trust and Midwest Regional Committee. She is Chair of the Academy’s Council and Vice Chair of its Board of Directors.

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and an Associate Professor of the Practice at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. He is the author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection (W. W. Norton, 2013). With Rebecca MacKinnon, Zuckerman co-founded the international blogging community Global Voices. It showcases news and opinions from citizen media in more than 150 nations and 30 languages, publishing editions in 20 languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, Zuckerman is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces. In 2000, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer organization that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously, he helped found Tripod.com, one of the web's first "personal publishing" sites. Zuckerman blogs at ethanzuckerman.com/blog.