Ira S. Hirschfield

May 14, 2014
Since 1992, Ira Hirschfield has worked to create a more just and compassionate society as President and a Trustee of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco, California. Ira leads the Fund’s work in four key program areas: supporting equal opportunities for immigrants to become active citizens; advancing full equality for gay and Read More

Lisa Graustein

May 14, 2014
Lisa Graustein (she/her) is the Board Chair of the W.C. Graustein Memorial Fund, whose mission is to achieve equity in education by working with those affected and inspiring all to end racism and poverty. As such, Lisa is working to dismantle the systems of oppression that have traditionally existed within grant-making to create new forms of wealth redistribution and social justice. Lisa Read More

Howard Gardner

May 14, 2014
Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, he is a leading thinker of education and human development. He has received honorary degrees from twenty-nine colleges and Read More

Joel L. Fleishman

May 14, 2014
Joel Fleishman is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He served as Legal Assistant to Governor Terry Sanford, the School’s namesake, in 1961-65.  He joined the Duke faculty in 1971, was founding director of what is now the Sanford School of Public Policy, and has served Duke as vice president, Read More

Peggy Dulany

May 14, 2014
Peggy Dulany is Chair of The Synergos Institute, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to creating effective, sustainable and locally based solutions to poverty. Drawing from her experience living and working in Rio de Janeiro as a young woman, she realized that the people most affected by adverse living conditions also have the greatest energy and motivation to solve their problems. Read More

Stephanie Cardon

May 14, 2014
Stephanie Cardon is an artist and writer, adjunct faculty at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and Executive Editor of Big Red & Shiny, a Boston-based non-profit and online magazine focusing on contemporary art issues and ideas. She is a fifth generation descendent of John E. Andrus, who founded the Surdna Foundation in 1917, and she serves as Vice-Chair on Read More

William I. Campbell

May 13, 2014
Bill Campbell is currently a Senior Advisor to the Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was most recently Chairman of Chase Card Services, the nation’s largest credit card organization. From 2005 to 2007, he served as Chairman of Visa International, leading the organization to its IPO in 2008, the largest in U.S. history. In 2001, together with his Read More

Jennifer Buffet

May 13, 2014
Jennifer Buffett is Co-Chair and President of the NoVo Foundation (“NoVo” is Latin: create. change.) a philanthropic organization focused primarily on the empowerment of women and girls. She has taken the lead shaping the strategic direction of NoVo and shares Board leadership of the foundation with her husband, composer and producer, Peter Buffett. NoVo Foundation’s approach is to invest in long-term Read More

Kelly Brown

May 13, 2014
Kelly Brown is Director of the D5 Coalition, a five-year effort to increase philanthropy’s diversity, equity and inclusiveness. Ms. Brown was Director of Programs and Evaluation at Marguerite Casey Foundation, which invests up to $30 million annually in organizations working to strengthen the voice and capacity of low-income families and Grants Director at the Vanguard Public Foundation where she designed, Read More

Jason Baron

May 13, 2014
Jason Baron is the creator and portfolio manager for the Socially Innovative Investing (S2I) strategy in the investments group within U.S. Trust. Prior to joining U.S. Trust, Jason served as the group head for the community investing team at Lehman Brothers where he was responsible for the design and implementation of socially responsible and mission-oriented investment products. He began his Read More