Team

John Bridgeland
Co-Chair
CEO & Executive Chair, More Perfect; Former White House Domestic Policy Director
Victor Hwang
Co-Chair
CEO and Founder, Right to Start
Kim Lane
Executive Director
Andy Dunn
CEO, Pie; Founder, Bonobos (Former)
Dr. Bob Balfanz
Director, Everyone Graduates Center; Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Education
DeAngela Burns-Wallace
President & CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Steve Case
Chairman & CEO, Revolution LLC; Co-Founder, AOL
Brad Feld
Partner and Co-Founder of Foundry
Brian Hooks
Chairman and CEO of Stand Together
Gov. Asa Hutchinson
46th Governor of Arkansas; CEO, Hutchinson Group LLC
Gov. Dirk Kempthorne
Former Senator & Governor (Idaho), Former Mayor (Boise, Idaho); Former Secretary of the Interior
Cate Luzio
Founder & CEO, Luminary
Stephanie Mehta
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Content Officer, Mansueto Ventures Inc. & Fast Company
Chef Kelsey Murphy
Winner of FOX's MasterChef: Legends
Marlon Nichols
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner, MaC Venture Capital
Anna Palmer
Managing Partner, XFactor Ventures
Miriam Rivera
CEO, Co-Founder, & Managing Director, Ulu Ventures
Brad Smith
President of Marshall University; Former CEO of Intuit
Jewel Burks Solomon
Managing Partner, Collab Capital
Dug Song
Founder & CEO, Song United
Jane Wurwand
Co-Founder, Wurwand Foundation's FOUND initiative; Co-Founder, Dermalogica
Andrew Yang
Founder of the Forward Party
Kim Folsom
Co-Founder & CEO, Founders First
Betsy Hodges
Advisor, Writer & Speaker; Former Mayor of Minneapolis
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