JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS, a political scientist, historian and Pulitzer-Prize winning Presidential biographer, serves as senior scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. The author of more than a dozen books, Burns has devoted his career to the study of leadership in American political life.

JOEL CHASEMAN, Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Nearware Networks, a company pioneering the use of artificial intelligence in marketing, served as the Chairman of the Washington Post Company’s Post-Newsweek Stations, as a director of both KingWorld Productions and the Washington Post Company, as Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and as a trustee of the Museum of Radio and Television.

EDITH EVERETT is co-founder and president of the Everett Family Foundation, whose priorities are education and young people. For over 30 years she was senior vice president of investments at Gruntal & Co., a New York Stock Exchange member firm. She currently serves on a number of philanthropic boards including Human Rights Watch, American Jewish Committee, International Hillel and the Blaustein Institute for Human Rights, and for 23 years she was a board member of the City University of New York.

GUSTAVO GODOY, a broadcast journalist and four-time Emmy Award winner, is the executive editor and publisher of Vista, a monthly magazine that reaches Hispanic Americans in top markets across the nation. Now entering its 18th year, Vista‘s circulation is more than 1.1 million per month.

JOSIE GOYTISOLO co-founded and served as the CEO of Divina.com, an online women’s network for the United States, Latin America and Spain. The four-time Emmy winner was an executive producer at WPLG-TV, Channel 10, in Miami. Prior to that, she was news director of the Miami-based Telemundo Television Network.

HERBERT HAFIF, an attorney, pioneered class action litigation and major defense fraud cases. He was selected Trial Lawyer of the Year, Consumer Advocate of the Year, Red Cross Philanthropist of the Year and voted Outstanding President of the California Trial Bar.

REV. THEODORE HESBURGH, the President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, has served on 12 Presidential Commissions. His stature as an elder statesman in American higher education is reflected in his 135 honorary degrees, the most ever awarded to an American.

KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON is an author and the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on political campaigns, she frequently appears as a commentator on CBS News, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, National Public Radio and CNN’s Inside Politics.

SONIA R. JARVIS is an attorney based in Washington, DC specializing in civil rights, diversity issues, nonprofit counsel, and general civil matters. A former executive director of the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation, she is currently a visiting professor at the School of Public Affairs at the City University of New York. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale University Law School.

HAROLD HONGJU KOH is dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985. He is one of the nation’s leading experts in human rights and international law and has received more than 20 awards for his human rights work. Dr. Koh has authored more than 80 articles and written or co-written eight books. From 1998-2001, he was assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor.

CHARLES OGLETREE holds the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law Chair at Harvard Law School. In 2001, Professor Ogletree received the prestigious Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit from the Washington Bar Association and in 2000, was selected by the National Law Journal as one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.”

CHARLES PILLER, co-founding Board member and chairman, is an investigative journalist specializing in science and technology. An author of two books, he is currently a science writer for the Los Angeles Times, based in San Francisco.

BEN SHERWOOD is a bestselling author and executive producer of the ABC program Good Morning America. Previously he was senior broadcast producer of the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, his efforts honored three years in a row with the Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast and several national news Emmys. From 1989 to 1993 he worked as an investigative producer with ABC News’ PrimeTime Live in New York and Washington.

PAUL A. VOLCKER, chairman of the board of trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee, served as chairman of the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He is former North American chairman of The Trilateral Commission and former chairman of Wolfensohn & Co. Inc., as well as professor emeritus of international economic policy at Princeton University. He divided the earlier stages of his career between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

HAROLD M. WILLIAMS, former Dean of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA for seven years, is President Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, California. Williams served as the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1977 to 1981 and currently is Of Counsel for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, author and the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, is a leading authority on race and poverty in the United States. A MacArthur Prize Fellow from 1987 to 1992, he was a recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor in the United States.