2012 Selection Jury

The Broad Prize selection jury, comprised of nationally Providence College, he joined the Peace Corps, serving in the prominent leaders from education, government, public service Dominican Republic from 1966 to1968. Upon returning to the and business, chooses the winner of The Broad Prize. The United States, he enlisted in the U.S. Army National Guard and selection jury reviews quantitative and qualitative data on each Army Reserves. Dodd earned a law degree from the Brandeis finalist school district, provided by MPR Associates and RMC School of Law at University of Louisville and practiced law in Research Corporation, and selects the urban school district that New London, Conn., before his election to Congress. demonstrates the best overall performance and improvement in student achievement while narrowing income and ethnic Donald Graham achievement gaps as the winner of The Broad Prize. This year’s Chairman and CEO, Washington Post Company selection jury consisted of the following 11 members: Donald E. Graham was named chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company in 1991 and chairman of the Henry Cisneros board in 1993. He served as publisher of The Post from 1979 to Executive Chairman, CityView 2000 and as chairman of the newspaper from 2000 to 2008. Henry Cisneros is executive chairman of the CityView Graham is chairman of the District of Columbia College companies, which work with the nation’s leading home- Access Program and has served as a member of the Pulitzer builders to create homes for working families. Previously, Prize board. He is a trustee of the Federal City Council and of Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision the Philip L. Graham Fund, which was established in 1963 in Communications, the largest Spanish-language media company memory of his father. He is also a director of Facebook, The in the nation. In 1993, he became President Bill Clinton’s Summit Fund of Washington, the College Success Foundation first secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban and KIPP-DC. Development. Cisneros became the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city when he was elected mayor of San Antonio in James Hunt, Jr. 1981. During his four terms as mayor, Cisneros helped rebuild Chairman of the Board, James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for the city’s economic base and created jobs through massive Educational Leadership and Policy infrastructure and downtown improvements. Former Governor of North Carolina James Hunt, Jr. is a partner in the Raleigh, N.C., office of the law Christopher Dodd firm of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice and is chairman Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of the board of the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational of America, Inc. Leadership and Policy. A four-term governor of North Carolina Former U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1977 to 1985 and again from 1993 to 2001, Hunt is a Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd is chairman and chief respected national leader in education reform. During his 16 executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of years as governor, he dramatically raised North Carolina’s America, Inc. Dodd represented Connecticut in Congress student test scores and ensured that teacher salaries were raised from 1974 to 2010. He served three terms in the U.S. House of to match the national average. A strong supporter of high Representatives and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980, standards in public schools, Hunt served as chairman of the serving until 2010 and becoming the longest-serving senator in National Education Goals Panel and vice chairman of the board Connecticut’s history. He formed the first children’s caucus in of Achieve. He also published a book outlining North Carolina’s the Senate, authored the first child care legislation since World education plan and describing his own experiences with public War II, and wrote the Family and Medical Leave Act. Dodd education, called “First in America: An Education Governor served as chairman of the Democratic National Convention Challenges North Carolina.” from 1995 to 1997. Following Dodd’s graduation from Michael Lomax Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, and the San Francisco President and CEO, United Negro College Fund Symphony Board of Governors. She is also a member of the Michael Lomax has been president and chief executive officer boards of the Commonwealth Club, the , the John of the United Negro College Fund since 2004. He launched the F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Boys and Girls UNCF Institute for Capacity Building, which helps UNCF’s Clubs of America. Rice earned a bachelor’s degree in political 39-member historically black colleges and universities become science from the University of Denver, a master’s degree from stronger, more effective and more self-sustaining. Lomax is the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate co-chair of the Education Equality Project, a member of the School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Aspen Institute’s Commission on No Child Left Behind, and a member of the governing boards of Teach For America, the KIPP Richard W. Riley Foundation and the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools. Partner, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough LLP He is also a frequent contributor to the National Journal’s Former U.S. Secretary of Education Education Experts blog and author of the “MorehouseMan” Former Governor of South Carolina blog at Essence.com. Lomax also serves on the boards of the Richard W. Riley is currently a partner in the law firm Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of African American History Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough. As governor of South and Culture and the Studio Museum of Harlem. He founded the Carolina from 1979 to 1987, Riley won national recognition National Black Arts Festival. for successfully improving the state’s educational system. He became the first governor in South Carolina history to be Edward G. Rendell elected to a second term after voters passed an amendment Former Governor of Pennsylvania to the constitution allowing him to run a second time. Riley Edward G. Rendell served two terms as governor of was then chosen by President Bill Clinton in 1992 to serve as Pennsylvania, two terms as mayor of Philadelphia and two U.S. secretary of education. During his eight-year tenure as terms as district attorney of Philadelphia. He was also chairman education secretary, Riley helped launch historic initiatives of the Democratic National Committee in 2000. Rendell sits to raise academic standards and improve instruction for poor on several boards, is a Brookings Fellow and teaches at the and disadvantaged children. He also expanded grant and loan University of Pennsylvania. He is a consultant or board member programs to help more Americans attend college, to prepare for several green and alternative energy firms, including Own young people for the world of work and to improve teaching. Energy, Element Partners and Ocean Thermal Energy. Rendell Since leaving his national post in 2001, Riley has continued to is also heavily involved in the campaign for government serve on a number of boards and work with a variety of entities efficiency and strategic cost-cutting through his work with to improve education across America. entities such as Government Sourcing Solutions, Public Financial Management and Greenhill Advisors. As governor, Margaret Spellings Rendell worked with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President and CEO, Margaret Spellings and Company California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to create “Building Executive Vice President, National Chamber Foundation America’s Future,” which focuses on investment in American Former U.S. Secretary of Education infrastructure projects to ensure that America maintains its Margaret Spellings is president and CEO of Margaret Spellings place as a global economic power. and Company and a leading national expert on public policy. Spellings also serves as a senior advisor to the U.S. Chamber Condoleezza Rice of Commerce and as president of the U.S. Forum for Policy Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Innovation. From 2005 to 2009, she served as U.S. secretary of The Hoover Institution of Stanford University education under President George W. Bush. As a member of the Former U.S. Secretary of State president’s Cabinet, Spellings led the implementation of the Condoleezza Rice served as the 66th secretary of state of the No Child Left Behind Act. She was a White House domestic United States from 2005 to 2009. Prior to that, she was President policy advisor from 2001 to 2005, during which time she George W. Bush’s national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. managed the development of the president’s domestic policy From 1993 to 1999, she was Stanford University’s provost, during agenda. Prior to her service in the White House, Spellings which time she was the university’s chief budget and academic served as senior advisor to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, officer. She returned to Stanford in March 2009 as a political led government relations efforts for the Texas Association of science professor and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. School Boards, served in various leadership capacities for the In September 2010, Rice became a faculty member of the Texas legislature, and worked for local education organizations Stanford Graduate School of Business and a director of its including Austin Community College. Global Center for Business and the Economy. She has served as a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett

02 2012 Selection Jury Andrew Stern Senior Research Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute President Emeritus, Service Employees International Union Andrew Stern is a senior research fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, where he conducts and coordinates research on public policy issues. He is president emeritus of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest and fastest-growing labor union in America. The SEIU represents more than 2 million working members, including health care workers, education workers, and other public service employees, as well as building service and security workers.

Mortimer Zuckerman Chairman and Editor-In-Chief, U.S. News & World Report Publisher, Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News. He is also the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Boston Properties Inc. and a regular commentator on The McLaughlin Group. Zuckerman is a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, a member of the Bank of America Global Wealth and Investment Management Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, the International Institute of Strategic Studies and is a board member and treasurer of the International Peace Institute. He is also on the board of directors for The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems, vice chairman of The Fund for Public Schools, a former associate professor of city and regional planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a former lecturer of city and regional planning at , and a past president of the board of trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

The following leaders serve on The Broad Prize selection jury, but did not vote in the 2012 selection process:

Shirley Ann Jackson President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Roderick Paige Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Donna Shalala President, University of Miami Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

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