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Revision as of 08:29, 7 July 2007
Teach For America was launched in 1990 by Wendy Kopp and "is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity." [1]
Directors [2]
- Stephen Bollenbach - Co-Chairman & CEO, Hilton Hotels Corporation
- Don Fisher - Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Gap Inc.
- Lew Frankfort - Chairman & CEO, Coach Inc.
- David Gergen - Professor of Public Service, Director of the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University
- Leo J. Hindery, Jr. - Managing Partner, InterMedia Partners
- Walter Isaacson (Chair) - President & CEO, The Aspen Institute
- David Kenny - CEO, Digitas
- Wendy Kopp - Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Teach For America
- Sherry Lansing - CEO, The Sherry Lansing Foundation
- Sue Lehmann - Management Consultant
- Michael L. Lomax, Ph.D. - President & CEO, United Negro College Fund
- Stephen F. Mandel, Jr. - Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Lone Pine Capital LLC
- Anthony W. Marx - President, Amherst College
- James M. McCormick - Founder, CEO & President, First Manhattan Consulting Group
- Richard Pechter - Alumnus, Teach For America, Retired Chairman, DLJ Financial Services
- Nancy Peretsman - Executive Vice President & Managing Director, Allen & Company, LLC
- Joel Smilow - Chairman, Dynex Group LLC
- Paula A. Sneed (Vice Chair) - Executive Vice President (retired), Kraft Foods, Inc.
- Howard Stringer - Chairman & CEO, Sony Corporation
- Larry Stupski - Chairman, Stupski Foundation
- Lawrence H. Summers - Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
- G. Kennedy Thompson - Chairman, President & CEO, Wachovia Corporation
- John Thompson - Chairman, CEO, Symantec Corporation
- Greg Wendt - Senior Vice President, Capital Research Company
- Jide Zeitlin (Treasurer) - Retired Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Contact
Resources and articles
Related SourceWatch
- Wendy Puriefoy - former board member
