Malcolm E. Peabody, Chairman and Founder
President, Peabody Corporation Real Estate Developers; Chairman of the Board of Washington International School, 1984 – 1995; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1969 - 1973 (founded the Housing Allowance Program); Executive Secretary, N.Y.S. Commission Against Discrimination, 1960 - 1962.
Dana T. Ackerly II
Partner, Covington and Burling; specialist in tax-exempt financing
Kevin Chavous
Formerly head of the Education Committee on the D.C. City Council. Strong supporter of public charter schools at the District and national level. Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Education Reform (CER), Mr. Chavous works with legislators, policy makers, and grassroots advocates in states across the country.
Boyden Gray
Partner of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; White House Counsel to former President George Bush. Currently, U.S. Ambassador to European Union.
Brett Greene
Principal in A-1 Construction. Active in D.C. Council affairs and as finance chairman for council members Gray and Alexander.
Harold Bardonille
Former Chairman of the Board, Paul PCS; Former Director of Facilities, Howard University; Former Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia; founded a “charter school” within the D.C. public school system, offering bilingual instruction.
Edward Han
Partner in the law firm of Howrey & Simon, Antitrust and Litigation Group
Anne Herr
A co-founder of Capital City Public Charter School and served as the chair of the school’s Board of Trustees prior to becoming its Executive Director. She also spent fifteen years as an analyst of Russian and Soviet foreign policy at the US Department of State. Anne received her BA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a Master of Public Management degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Judith Denton Jones
Chair, Maine Association for Charter Schools; former urban sociologist and education planner; former full-time consultant to D.C. public schools on facility and educational planning, 1987-1994; former president of the Six School Council, which organized a choice program for elementary schools.
Charles P. Lord
Formerly Washington Bureau Director of Children's Express; former Headmaster of Holton Arms and St. Timothy schools; board member of the SEED public charter school.
Linda Moore
Founder and Executive Director of the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School, in Washington, DC. Throughout her career, Ms. Moore has worked with public and community-based organizations to improve conditions for children and families. She serves on numerous boards, including the DC Charter School Association and Martha’s Table, and is the former chairperson of Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area Board of Directors and the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education.
Mary Procter
Founding Chief of Staff of Friendship PCS. Former Director of Program Planning for the Department of State; Former Director of Congressional and Public Affairs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
Eva Rainer
Deputy Director of the educational facilities financing center, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Rainer specializes in project loans for non-profit and educational organizations, particularly for charter schools. She is the Chair of the Potomac Light House Public Charter School in Washington, D.C.
Donald Rappaport
Board member and Treasurer, Meridian PCS; CFO and CIO, U.S. Department of Education, 1997-1999; National Director, Price Waterhouse national services group, 1979-1987; partner, Price Waterhouse, 1963-1987.
Irasema Salcido
Irasema Salcido is the founder and CEO of the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy. Before founding the first Chavez school in 1998, Mrs. Salcido worked for nine years in the DC public school system. She received a BA in Business Administration from California State University at Fullerton. She also holds a MA in Education, Administration, and Social Planning from the Harvard University School of Education.
Howard H. (Terry) Williams, III
Formerly a senior director of McKinsey & Company, Inc.; currently consultant to non-profit organizations and Vice Board Chairman for Alliance for Nonprofit Management; Board member of the DC Community Partnership and Arts & Technology Public Charter School.
Advisory Board
James G. Banks
Chairman, Anacostia & Congress Heights Partnership; formerly Executive Director, Washington Board of Realtors and Director of D.C. Public Housing Agency.
Emmanuel Carr
Former Director of Equal Opportunity, D.C. Public Schools.
Ann Fairbanks
Partner in Keystone, Inc.
David R. Gergen
Editor-at-Large, U.S. News & World Report; White House counselor to Presidents Bush and Clinton.
George W. Grier
Demographer, Greater Washington Research Center; Director, Greater Washington Research Consumer Survey, Inc.; formerly, Director of Research, N.Y.S. Commission Against Discrimination.
Mary Janney
Formerly of Washington Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc.; former at-large candidate for The D.C. School Committee and candidate for the D.C. Council
Caroline Macomber
Former board chair of Farmington School.
Dr. Carlotta Miles
Psychiatrist and specialist in school/student relationships.
Dr. Vincent Reed
Formerly vice president of communication, Washington Post; formerly Superintendent of D.C. Public Schools.