The Opportunity Agenda Board members represent a diverse spectrum of disciplines, constituencies and approaches, yet all of them have demonstrated in their work a rare priority on cross-disciplinary collaboration, leadership development, a focus on results and a deep respect for diversity. In addition to diversity of experience, our Steering Committee and Advisory Board represents a diverse range in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, geography, and age.
| Steering Committee | ||
| Alan Jenkins | Executive Director and Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda | |
| Patrick A. Bradford | Partner, Davis, Polk & Wardwell | |
| Jeffrey H. Blattner | Strategic Advisor on Law and Public Policy | |
| Teresa Clarke Ellis | Managing Director, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs | |
| Bill Lann Lee | Partner, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C.; Advisory Board Chair and Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda | |
| Idelisse Malavé | Organizational Consultant | |
| Timothy Wilkins | Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | |
| Founding Advisory Board | ||
| Jared Bernstein, Ph.D. | Director, Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute | |
| Phoebe Eng | Director, Creative Counsel and Vice Chair, Ms. Foundation for Women; Co-Founder and Advisor of The Opportunity Agenda | |
| Tessie Guillermo | President and CEO, ZeroDivide | |
| Monique Harden | Co-Director, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights | |
| Margaret Hempel | Director, Sexuality and Reproductive Health and Rights, Ford Foundation | |
| Olati Johnson | Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Law School | |
| Ichiro Kawachi, MD, Ph.D. | Professor, Harvard School of Public Health | |
| Amber Khan | Communications Consultant | |
| Kit Laybourne | Professor, Media Studies Department, The New School | |
| Gay McDougall | UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues | |
| Marc Mauer | Executive Director, The Sentencing Project | |
| Steve Montiel | Director, Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California | |
| Michael Omi, Ph.D. | Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Thomas E. Perez | Secretary of Labor, Licensing & Regulation, State of Maryland | |
| Steve Phillips | President, PowerPac.org | |
| john powell | Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, Ohio State University | |
| Brian Smedley | Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Co-Founder and Advisor, The Opportunity Agenda | |
| Susan Sandler | Sandler Foundation | |
| Edward Telles, Ph.D. | Professor of Sociology, Princeton University | |
| Emily Tynes | Executive Vice President, Communications Consortium | |
| Robert West | Executive Director, Working Films | |
