City Year National Leadership Summit Program Book by City Year, Inc.

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RAC K T N &O L O HO C S N I 2013

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CSX Transportation has been a partner of City Year since 1994, a National Leadership Sponsor of City Year since 2003 and is a sponsor of the National Leadership Summit. In addition, as City Year’s largest team sponsor, CSX Transportation demonstrates a shared commitment to service and the positive role it plays in transforming neighborhoods and communities. CSX Transportation also partners with City Year’s Care Force team to engage employees, customers and community members in service days throughout the year. To support Care Force service days across the country, CSX Transportation donated two tractor-trailers to transport tools and materials to service events nationwide. As City Year’s lead Safety Partner, CSX Transportation provides first aid and CPR training for all corps and staff members.

Seth Weary @SethCYNY

If kids who dropout are 8x more likely to end up in prison, do we open more prisons, or minds? #makebetterhappen

2013 Summit Delegation Chairs We are deeply grateful to our 2013 Summit Delegation Chairs, who have played a key role in mobilizing champions and stakeholders from each city where City Year serves and have built powerful delegations that will help us realize our Long Term Impact goal.

Baton Rouge Gwen Hamilton Office of the Mayor-President

Los Angeles Glenn Gritzner Mercury Public Affairs

Boston Josh McCall Jack Morton Worldwide

Miami Tere Blanca Blanca Commercial Real Estate

Chicago Kristen Saranteas Wintrust Financial Corporation

Milwaukee Julia A. Uihlein David & Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation

Cleveland Bruce Akers City of Pepper Pike

New Hampshire Beth Roberts Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Columbia Stephen R. Fitzer, Esq.

New Orleans Kyle Wedberg New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

Columbus Rusty Orben CSX Transportation

New York Regina Hitchery

Denver Joe Miklosi Project C.U.R.E.

Orlando Libba Lyons Orange County Public Schools

Detroit N. Charles Anderson Urban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan

Philadelphia Catie C. Wolfgang Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Service

Jacksonville Kim Ward Michael & Kim Ward Foundation

Rhode Island Alan Harlam Brown University

Little Rock Stephanie S. Streett William J. Clinton Foundation

Sacramento Alice Perez Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

San Antonio Craig Berkowitch Deloitte San JosĂŠ Todd Achilles Hewlett-Packard Seattle Bree Dusseault Washington State Charter Schools Association Washington, DC Josh Edelman Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ronny B. Lancaster Assurant, Inc.

International Affiliates London Filippo Cardini TowerBrook Capital Partners Caroline Clark South Africa Rick Menell Credit Suisse Murphy Morobe Kagiso Media

Zena Patel @zena_patel The only thing worse than kids giving up on school, is if we give up on them. #makebetterhappen

SCHEDULE

Schedule Monday, May 13 – PRE-SUMMIT MEETINGS & OPENING CELEBRATION 11:30 AM

REGISTRATION OPENS | Columbia Hall | Washington Hilton

2:00 PM

City Year Board of Trustees Meeting | Columbia Hall 9 & 10 Invitation only for City Year’s National Board of Trustees

5:30 PM

Shuttles begin departing from the Washington Hilton for The Howard Theatre

6:00 PM

Reception | The Howard Theatre

7:00 PM

Dinner & Program | The Howard Theatre I Believe: Celebrating Potential & Possibility

Evening Sponsored by CSX Transportation ADDRESS: 620 T St NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

We believe every child deserves the opportunity to realize their full potential. Join us for an inspiring evening of storytelling and music to celebrate what is possible when we work together to help every child achieve their dreams. Set in the historic Howard Theatre and presented by CSX Transportation, this evening promises to be a powerful kick-off to City Year’s 2013 In School & On Track National Leadership Summit. Welcome: AnnMaura Connolly, Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Vice President, City Year, Inc. Remarks: Michael Brown, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, City Year, Inc. Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education Wendy Spencer, Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for National and Community Service I Believe: Murphy Morobe, Chief Executive Officer, Kagiso Media and Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees, City Year South Africa Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative Phyllis Segal, Vice President, encore.org South High Harmony Choir from Columbus, Ohio Nicholas David, Singer/Songwriter/Pianist and contestant on Season 3 of NBC’s “The Voice” 9:00 PM

Shuttles begin departing for the Hilton

Tuesday, May 14 – Main Summit Programming & networking Events CITY YEAR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT| WASHINGTON HILTON

7:00 AM

Registration Opens | Columbia Hall

8:00 AM

Board of Trustees & Site Board Breakfast | Columbia Hall 9-10 By invitation only for Site Board Leadership and members of City Year’s National Board of Trustees.

10:00 AM

Opening Plenary | Columbia Hall 5-8 The Road to 2023: City Year’s Long Term Impact Strategy At the 2012 Summit, City Year laid out a bold plan to maximize our contribution to the graduation challenge – a long term impact goal that, once realized, will enable City Year AmeriCorps members to serve in 38 cities across the United States, reaching more than 900,000 students at greatest risk of dropping out. This year, we will open the Summit by sharing updates on City Year’s plan to achieve this goal, celebrating early milestones, and hearing perspective on the strategies that are gaining traction from Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, winner of the Broad Prize in 2012. Opening Remarks: Michael Brown, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, City Year, Inc. Introduction: Saif Ishoof, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year Miami Keynote Address: Alberto M. Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

11:00 AM

Break/Transition

11:15 AM

Concurrent Insight Sessions Part I

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Schedule (continued) 12:45 PM

Lunch Plenary | Columbia Hall 5-8 National Service in Education: Powering Reform & Unlocking Student Potential As expectations for achievement are raised through the demands of a global economy and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, we know that more students are going to require higher levels of support to ensure they graduate college and career ready. How are schools, districts and cities mobilizing to ensure resources are being effectively leveraged to meet studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; diverse needs? During this plenary session, you will hear from innovative education leaders and practitioners about how they are re-imagining traditional school design, and how collaborative and cross-sector partnerships are powering needed reforms in the cities City Year serves. Introduction: Evelyn Barnes, Chief Financial and Administative Officer, City Year, Inc. Opening Remarks: Charisse R. Lillie, Vice President, Comcast Investment, Comcast Corporation and President, Comcast Foundation 2013 Seven Generations Award Presentation: Mike Love, Lead Singer, The Beach Boys Framing Remarks: Jim Balfanz, President, City Year, Inc. Moderator: Michele Cahill, Vice-President, National Programs and Program Director, Urban Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York & Member of City Year Board of Trustees Panelists: Jim Balfanz, President, City Year, Inc. Mayor Manny Diaz, Partner, Lydecker Diaz & Member of City Year Board of Trustees Jonathan Raymond, Superintendent, Sacramento City Unified City Schools Sissi Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly, Principal, Clinton Middle School, Los Angeles Unified Schools Dr. Gregory E. Thornton, Superintendent, Milwaukee Public Schools Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti, Superintendent, Duval County Public Schools Closing Announcements Sean Holleran, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, City Year, Inc. Christine Morin, Senior Vice President, Site Growth & New Site Development, City Year, Inc. Stephen G. Woodsum, Founding Managing Director, Summit Partners & Chair of City Year Board of Trustees

2:45 PM

Break/Transition

3:00 PM

Concurrent Insight Sessions Continue

4:30 PM

Break/Transition

4:45 PM

SUMMIT NETWORKING RECEPTION | HILTON PATIO

7:00 PM

Delegation Dinners (optional) & Corps Member Excursion Optional Delegation Dinners & Corps Member Excursion

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Delegation Dinners (optional) offer opportunities for reflection and community building at area restaurants. For more information, contact your Executive Director. Corps members and senior corps member will have an opportunity to participate in a group tour of the monuments and the National Mall.

Hill Day Schedule Wednesday, May 15 – Hill day Please note – not all Summit participants will be attending Hill Day meetings. If you are scheduled to attend these meetings, your Executive Director will provide you with materials and your meeting schedules. 7:00 AM

Breakfast available | Washington Hilton

8:00 AM 12:00 PM

Hill Day Meetings

12:00 PM

Congressional Luncheon | 902 Hart Building, Capitol Hill The culminating event of the Summit, the Congressional Luncheon will bring together Senators, Senate staff, and delegations from each of City Year’s 24 sites to discuss the integral role AmeriCorps members can play in school turnaround strategies by providing the extra people power needed to deliver data-driven, holistic student and school supports that can affect dramatic change. In times of fiscal restraint and limited resources, it is critical that policymakers embrace cost-efficient strategies that break down bureaucratic barriers, encourage cross-agency collaboration, and involve citizens more effectively by leveraging public, private, and nonprofit sector expertise and investment. A moderated panel will examine how highly effective partnerships can propel school improvement and produce better outcomes for students. Moderator: Judy Woodruff, Co-Anchor and Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour Panelists: Dr. Robert Balfanz, Co-Director, Everyone Graduates Center and Research Scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University Nicole Veltze, Principal, North High School, Denver Public Schools Kat Walsh, Program Manager, City Year Denver

2:00 PM 5:00 PM

Hill Day Meetings

Insight Sessions - Part I Tues, May 14

Concurrent Sessions Part 1 – 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

INSIGHT SESSION #1

The Inside Scoop: Politics and the Future of National Service Join a high profile group of Washington insiders for a lively exchange on the current state of play with politics, the federal budget and the future of national service.

Columbia 1-2

Moderator: Pawn Nitichan, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year New Hampshire Panelists: Juleanna Glover, Founding Principal, Ashcroft Group Tom Sheridan, President, The Sheridan Group Erik Smith, Founder, Blue Engine & Media Rich Stombres, Vice President, Penn Hill Group

INSIGHT SESSION #2 Columbia 3-4

Disrupting the Status Quo: Improving Educational Outcomes in America’s Urban Schools This session will engage school district leaders from across the country in a lively discussion centered on different strategies for turning around schools and improving outcomes. Introduction: Peggy Mendoza, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year New Orleans Moderator: Dr. Heidi Ramírez, Education Consultant & former Chief Academic Officer, Milwaukee Public Schools Panelists: Jay Altman, Co-Founder & CEO, FirstLine Schools Tommy Chang, Local Instructional Superintendent, Intensive Support & Innovation Center, Los Angeles Unified School District Dr. Pablo Ortiz, Assistant Superintendent, Education Transformation Office, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

INSIGHT SESSION #3 Columbia 9-10

BREAKTHROUGH MESSAGING: TELLING THE STORY Nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant Andy Goodman will lead an engaging skillbuilding workshop in storytelling specific to City Year’s relevance in the service and education fields. This interactive session is geared toward those new to the City Year community. Introduction: Toni Schwarzenbach, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year San José/Silicon Valley Speaker: Andy Goodman, Co-Founder & Director, The Goodman Center

INSIGHT SESSION #4 Columbia 11-12

LONG-TERM IMPACT PLAN: THE INVESTOR PERSPECTIVE This session will explore City Year’s plans for growth from the perspective of our private sector partners. The discussion will touch upon local best practices and creative strategies, as well as challenges that face our local communities as we seek to resource our plans for scale and impact in the cities we serve. Moderator: Erica Hamilton, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year New York Panelists: Sandra Burke, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year Boston Jonathan Lavine, Founder and Managing Director of Sankaty Advisors & Member of City Year’s Board of Trustees Kim Ward, Trustee and Managing Director, Michael & Kim Ward Foundation and Board Chair of City Year Jacksonville Stephen G. Woodsum, Founding Managing Director, Summit Partners & Chair of City Year’s Board of Trustees

Insight Sessions - Part II Tues, May 14

Concurrent Sessions Part 2 – 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

INSIGHT SESSION #5 Columbia 9-10

201: BREAKTHROUGH MESSAGING (SECOND OFFERING, ADVANCED SESSION) Andy Goodman of The Goodman Center will offer an advanced session designed for the more seasoned storytellers at City Year, focusing on the appropriate City Year branding and use of data in messaging City Year’s impact. Introduction: Todd Tuney, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year Columbus Speaker: Andy Goodman, Co-Founder & Director, The Goodman Center

INSIGHT SESSION #6 Columbia 3-4

BUILDING THE TEACHER PIPELINE Part presentation and part discussion, this session will explore various approaches to prepare educators to work in urban schools and how districts, charter management organizations and nonprofits are thinking differently about getting effective teachers into the classroom from using the traditional educational degree approach to alternative options such as teacher residency and certification programs. Introduction: Jim Balfanz, President, City Year, Inc. Moderator: Grace Heintz, Partner, Bain Consulting Panelists: Alyssa D’ Alconzo, Director of Admissions & Financial Aid, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Tom Green, Director of School Transformation, Alum Rock Union School District Sharif El-Mekki, Principal, Mastery Charter Shoemaker Campus Kerry Swarr, Director of Human Capital, Urban Teacher Center

INSIGHT SESSION #7 Columbia 1-2

A BLUEPRINT FOR IMPACT: CITY SPECIFIC LONG-TERM IMPACT PLANS This session will highlight the development of City Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Long Term Impact plans for each market. Participants will develop an understanding of these Long Term Impact Blueprints including the methodologies used in developing multi-year scaled impact deployment plans, stakeholder analyses and local funding market assessment. Introduction: Jessica Blume, Vice Chairman, U.S. Public Sector Leader and State Sector Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP Framing Remarks: Stephanie Wu, Senior Vice President, Chief Program Design and Evaluation Officer Moderator: Alexandra Allen, Regional Vice President, City Year, Inc. Panelists: Chris Corneille, Senior Director of Site Growth, City Year, Inc. & Beth Mryant, Manager of Strategic Analysis, City Year, Inc. Darienne Driver, Chief Innovation Officer, Milwaukee Public Schools Jason Holton, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year Milwaukee Jeremy Owoh, Principal of J.A. Fair High School, Little Rock School District Sarah Roberson, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year Little Rock/N. Little Rock

INSIGHT SESSION #8 Columbia 11-12

#makebetterhappen CAMPAIGN OVERVIEW City Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marketing and Communications team will share an overview of our national marketing campaign #makebetterhappen and share the ways we are leveraging this campaign to increase brand awareness to recruit the largest and most diverse corps in City Year history. Participants will leave with an understanding of their role in the campaign and strategies for leveraging the campaign in their markets. Introduction: Lisa Morrison Butler, Executive Director & Vice President, City Year Chicago Speaker: Gillian Smith, Chief Marketing Officer, City Year, Inc.

Matt Repka @mrepka People ask me why I give up a year of my life to help kids. I say, who says Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m giving up anything? #makebetterhappen

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SPEAKERS

Speakers Alexandra Allen Regional Vice President City Year, Inc. Alex Allen joined City Year in the summer of 1996. Since then, she has spent four years as a pivotal member of the Program and Service Department of City Year Boston, serving as a Team Leader, Program Director, Service and Civic Impact Director. In 2000, Alex had the honor of founding the City Year site in New Hampshire where she then spent 12 years as the Executive Director and Co-Executive Director. She currently serves as the Regional Vice President for the Northeast. Alex graduated from Bowdoin College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an education minor.

Jay Altman Chief Executive Officer FirstLine Schools Jay Altman is CEO of FirstLine Schools, a non-profit organization whose mission is to create and inspire great public schools in New Orleans. FirstLine Schools directly operates charter schools, focusing on turning around failing schools. From 2005 – early 2008, Jay worked in London as Director of Education for ARK Schools, developing a network of charter-type schools and helping develop training programs for leaders of open admissions urban schools, including Future Leaders, a program for aspiring principals of open-admissions urban schools, and Teaching Leaders, a program for mid-level school leaders. Prior to this he was co-founder and a school leader of New Orleans Charter Middle School, the first charter school in New Orleans. Jay serves on the boards of Leading Educators, New Leaders and the Teaching Trust. Jay is the proud father of two children, Calder and Talia, and the lucky husband of Adrienne.

Dr. Robert Balfanz Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools Johns Hopkins University Robert Balfanz is a research scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University and associate director of the Talent Development Middle and High School Project, which is currently working with more than fifty high-poverty secondary schools to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive whole-school reforms. His work focuses on translating research findings into effective reforms for high-poverty secondary schools. Balfanz has published widely on secondary school reform, high school dropouts, and instructional interventions in high-poverty schools. Recent work includes Locating the Dropout Crisis, with co-author Nettie Legters, in which the numbers and locations of high schools with high dropout rates are identified. He is currently the lead investigator on a middle school-dropout-prevention project in collaboration with the Philadelphia Education Fund, which is supported by the William Penn Foundation. Balfanz received his PhD in education from the University of Chicago.

Jim Balfanz President City Year, Inc. Since 2010, Jim Balfanz has served as President of City Year, steering its continued evolution as a performancedriven organization. Balfanz led City Year’s strategic shift towards addressing the nation’s urban education challenge as a scalable human capital strategy for high-poverty schools and co-authored a 2012 City Year report, “Closing the Implementation Gap,” that highlights the critical role national service can play in helping to improve student achievement in America’s highest need schools. In partnership with Johns Hopkins Talent Development and Communities In Schools, Balfanz has also played a leadership role in the development of Diplomas Now, which was awarded a $36 million Investing in Innovation award by the Department of Education.

Prior to his role as President, Balfanz served as City Year’s Chief Operating Officer for 5 years during which he led the organization through a sustained period of growth that enabled it to grow from 15 to 21 U.S. locations and launch its second international affiliate in London. Balfanz began his work with City Year as a corps member at a Head Start Program in Boston in 1993, after which he joined City Year’s staff and has since assumed various roles in City Year’s National Headquarters, including Deputy Director of National Affairs, and Director of New Site Development, followed by being named the Founding Executive Director of City Year Greater Philadelphia in 1997. Balfanz received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University, is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business Executive management Program, and a 2011-2012 Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow. He currently serves on the Mass Insight Education board of directors and the City Year London board of trustees.

Evelyn Barnes Chief Financial and Administrative Officer City Year, Inc. Evelyn Barnes joined City Year as Chief Financial Officer in 2005. She brings to City Year more than 20 years of finance and operations experience. Evelyn came to City Year after serving as CFO for The Community Builders, the largest non-profit, urban housing developer in the U.S. Throughout her career, she has been employed in senior finance positions with several large nonprofit organizations. Evelyn’s leadership experience in nonprofit finance is extensive: she was the CFO at the YWCA in Boston and Midnight Mission in Los Angeles, and Deputy Director of the Los Angeles Community Design Center and the Alcoholism Center for Women. She received her undergraduate degree and master’s degree from Boston University and has a professional designation in financial planning from the University of California – Los Angeles.

Jessica Blume Vice Chairman U.S. Public Sector Leader and State Sector Leader Deloitte Consulting LLP Blume began her Deloitte career in the public sector more than 20 years ago and she has a true depth of knowledge of the practice and a strong relationship with many of Deloitte’s Public Sector clients. With her financial and accounting background, she became an early leader in the drive to grow the Finance Transformation and Technology practices. And although she has served clients across many industries, she frequently has landed back in the public sector to assist clients in state and federal markets. From FY06 to FY09, Blume served as national managing director – Public Sector, Deloitte Consulting LLP, leading significant growth and improved performance in the practice. She was a leader in growing both our state and federal practice to the scale and capability that they have today. She has served many clients in the public and commercial sectors including the State of California, Department of Defense, the School Board of Miami-Dade, State of New York, State of South Carolina, State of Florida, The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, Pfizer, and UnitedHealthcare. She is currently the advisory partner to the State of Florida, the State of New York, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Jessica took her large client knowledge and assumed the responsibility for the firm’s knowledge management and competitive/market intelligence in the US from 2010-2012, which are critically important to how we support our delivery of client services. As an item of interest, in this role she oversaw our adoption of social media as a means of support for our services and interactions with clients and target employees. She also was in charge of the development of our strategic service offerings such as Talent, Finance Transformation and Sustainability. With her leadership, Deloitte developed a 5 year plan to invest and grow its Sustainability services from strategy to technology, which has positioned us above many of our competitors. Throughout Blume’s Deloitte career, she has held numerous leadership roles including Southeast regional managing director – Deloitte Consulting LLP; national managing director – Public Sector, Deloitte Consulting LLP; and

national managing director – Industries, Deloitte Consulting LLP. She has been a member of the Deloitte LLP Board of Directors and a member of the Deloitte Consulting LLP Board of Directors. Jessica graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in accounting and is a CPA in the State of Florida. She joined Deloitte in 1989 after 10 years of experience in industry. She is in her fourth year as a Trustee for City Year national board and through this role both oversees the firm’s investment in education and her own personal passion in desire to improve the education system.

Michael Brown Co-Founder & CEO City Year, Inc. Michael Brown is Co-Founder and CEO of City Year, a nonprofit organization built on the belief that young people can change the world. City Year is focused on addressing the nation’s high school dropout crisis. In 2009, Mr. Brown announced “In School & On Track: A National Challenge,” City Year’s national initiative to significantly increase the urban high school graduation pipeline in America by calling on the nation’s idealistic young adults to help students in high poverty schools succeed. Mr. Brown was named one of America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report and an Executive of the Year by NonProfit Times for his leadership role in ServiceNation and the passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. For his work developing City Year, Michael Brown has been awarded several distinctions, including the Reebok Human Rights Award, the National Caring Award, the Samuel S. Beard Jefferson Award of the American Institute for Public Service, the Boston Bar Association’s Public Service Award, the Harvard Law School Association Award, and four honorary degrees. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Prior to starting City Year, Mr. Brown served as a legislative assistant to then Congressman Leon Panetta and as a clerk for Federal Judge Stephen Breyer.

Sandra Burke Executive Director & Vice President City Year Boston Sandra Lopez-Burke joined City Year as the Director of Individual Giving in 2001, subsequently served four years as Vice President and Chief of Staff to the CEO, and most recently, was promoted to Vice President and Executive Director of the Founding Site of City Year – Boston. Sandra brought to City Year more than 10 years of management and event planning experience in the nonprofit sector, including working with Boston 2000 and the San Antonio Sports Foundation, and directing the 1998 NCAA Men’s Final Four. She also worked closely to establish the Dreams for Youth program, aimed at introducing San Antonio’s disadvantaged youth to Olympic sports. Sandra is the parent of two City Year alumnae.

Lisa Morrison Butler Executive Director, Chief Impact Officer City Year Chicago Lisa Morrison Butler joined City Year as the Executive Director of Chicago in 2004. Lisa brings over 20 years of experience in diversified communications, sales and integrated marketing management. Prior to coming to City Year, she was President of TRACE, Inc., a strategic communications consulting firm. She has also held various communications, marketing, and sales roles with Ameritech, CBS Radio Networks, and SBN Radio Networks. Lisa graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in public affairs.

Michele Cahill Vice President, National Programs and Program Director, Urban Education Carnegie Corporation Michele Cahill is vice-president for national programs at Carnegie Corporation of New York where she leads the philanthropy’s strategy to support creation of pathways to educational success by generating systemic change across K-12 and higher education, and to support expanded pathways to citizenship, civil participation and civic integration in a pluralistic society. Michele served as the Co-chair of the Carnegie-Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science Education, managing the development of its 2009 report, The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for the Global Economy and Citizenship (opportunityequation.org). Prior to rejoining Carnegie Corporation in 2007, Michele was the senior counselor to the chancellor for education policy in the New York City Department of Education under Chancellor Joel Klein. From its inception in 2002 Cahill was a member of the Children First senior leadership team that oversaw and implemented the full-scale reorganization and reform of the New York City public schools. Some specific areas of focus included district redesign , research and development capacity to guide strategies to increase the graduation rate, new school development and creation and expansion of innovative school designs for re-engaging and accelerating the learning of overage and under-credited adolescents. Michele has experience in education reform in various settings including founding and co-leading for a decade a college program for non-traditional students that received national recognition for innovation and degree completion; developing and expanding the Beacons community school model, directing numerous demonstration projects and evaluations, and working in education philanthropy. Michele began her school reform work as a community organizer with out-of-school youth in Jersey City more than thirty years ago. Michele has a B.A. in Urban Affairs from Saint Peter’s College, a Masters of Arts in Urban Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and she pursued doctoral studies in social policy and planning at Columbia University where she was a Revson Fellow.

Alberto M. Carvalho Superintendent Miami-Dade County Public Schools Alberto M. Carvalho is Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), the nation’s fourth largest school system, serving a diverse student body of over 400,000 in Pre K-Adult. M-DCPS has an annual budget of almost $4.3 billion; 53,000 employees; and over 47.5 million square feet of facilities. A nationally recognized expert on education reform and finance, as well as an outspoken advocate for high quality education for all students, Mr. Carvalho became Superintendent in September 2008. Under Mr. Carvalho’s leadership, M-DCPS’ business operations were restructured, resulting in an increase in financial reserves of over 2000 percent, despite the national economic downturn. Insisting on transparency in the budgeting process, he restored public trust and community support for Miami-Dade’s public schools. By bringing a renewed focus to the classroom, student performance has improved significantly. In 2011, the District posted its highest high school graduation rate ever and through a data-driven approach to school performance improvement, decreased the number of “F” high schools in Miami-Dade from 13 to zero. In addition, over half of all schools earned a grade designation of “A” with 70% earning an A or B. M-DCPS students consistently have outperformed their national peers on the Reading, Mathematics and Science on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a measure considered to be the gold standard of performance accountability. A leader in innovation, Mr. Carvalho is spearheading the transformation of education, pushing for the migration from textbooks to digital content and is developing cutting edge educational environments to meet the demands of today’s learners. He has been selected to lead statewide committees charged with charting the future of public education in Florida. He successfully chaired the Governor’s Race to the Top (RTTT) Working Group which led to Florida’s successful bid for RTTT funding resulting in $700 million for Florida’s schools. He was also tapped as chair of Florida’s Task Force on Educational Excellence which has been charged with crafting the framework for the reform efforts driven by Race to the

Top. In 2010, Mr. Carvalho was recognized by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce as the “Visionary Leader of the Year.” In 2011 he was named one of the Top 10 Tech-Savvy Superintendents in the U.S. by eSchool News and was awarded the 2011 Essie Silva Community Builder Award by United Way of Miami-Dade. Under his leadership, MiamiDade County Public Schools was selected as one of four finalists in the nation for the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education. He is the President of the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS). A versatile leader, Mr. Carvalho is the only superintendent in the nation who is the self appointed principal of two award-winning schools – the Primary Learning Center and the iPrep Academy - and teaches Physics in selected high schools across the district. He has been featured on CNN, NBC, The New York Times, District Administration Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and Nightly Business Report.

Tommy Chang Instructional Superintendent, Intensive Support and Innovation Center Los Angeles Unified School District Tommy Chang joined Teach for America in 1997 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught science at Compton High School in Compton, CA. During his six years there, he pushed for access to AP classes and established an AP biology program which resulted in the first students in Compton Unified history to pass the exam. During his six years in Compton, he continued his education at University of California, Los Angeles, first through the Teacher Education Master’s Program, and then through the Principal Leadership Institute. After receiving his administrative master’s and credential, Tommy joined Green Dot Public Schools. In Fall 2004, he founded Ánimo Venice Charter High School as its principal and served as the school’s leader for six years, establishing a comprehensive high school located in the Oakwood community of Venice. Tommy served as the Los Angeles regional director of advocacy and policy for the California Charter Schools Association before joining Los Angeles Unified School District as Special Assistant in the Office of the Superintendent under Dr. John Deasy. Most recently, Tommy has been appointed the Instructional Superintendent of LAUSD’s Intensive Support and Innovation Center. Under his supervision are all the focus schools, the pilot schools, and network partnership schools in LAUSD- covering 132 schools that serve nearly 100,000 students. He is charged in leading the school district’s turnaround work through both providing intensive support and creating the incentives for innovation. He recently completed his Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University.

AnnMaura Connolly Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer City Year, Inc. AnnMaura Connolly is the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of City Year. As CSO, AnnMaura directs City Year’s public policy, public affairs and communications work, manages relationships with national and international leaders and organizational partners, oversees City Year’s international work, and collaborates with the CEO on a wide range of strategic advancement issues, including fundraising. In addition to her role at City Year, AnnMaura serves as President of Voices for National Service, a coalition of service organizations across the country that works to advance citizen service policy. AnnMaura played a key role in the drafting and passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009, which laid the groundwork for the largest expansion of citizen service since the New Deal and for the last 10 years has led all of the major campaigns to save and grow national service. AnnMaura has over 25 years of experience as a leader of the service movement, beginning with her service year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and including senior management positions at Youth Service America and the Corporation for National and Community Service. She has also acted as an independent consultant to a variety of foundations and nonprofits, including the Grantmaker Forum on Community and National Service, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. AnnMaura holds a BA in Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross and serves a member of the Advisory Board for the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program at Brandeis

University, the Board of Directors for My Good Deed, the Leadership Councils for The Franklin Project at the Aspen Institute and ServiceNation, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and the Federal Advisory Council of the National Center for Service and Innovative Leadership at The Presidio.

Dr. Alyssa D’Alconzo Director of Admissions & Financial Aid University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Alyssa D’Alconzo is the Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. With nearly a decade of enrollment management experience, Dr. D’Alconzo oversees strategy, planning, and implementation of all aspects of the recruitment and yield processes for 25 programs and 5 degrees at Penn GSE. During her tenure as Director, she has led efforts to increase the school’s master’s degree population by nearly 50% and to enroll classes annually that are more diverse and more academically able than the previous classes. Dr. D’Alconzo earned a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from James Madison University, with majors in English and Communication Studies and a concentration in Public Relations. She holds Master’s of Science in Education and Doctor of Education degrees in Higher Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests center around the information barrier to college access; her doctoral dissertation was a quantitative study designed to understand the role of information utilized by students in their college enrollment and explore predictors of choice between two- and four-year institutions.

Nicholas David Singer/Songwriter Nicholas David Mrozinski is a vibrant, dynamic, and multi-talented singer/songwriter/pianist from Saint Paul, MN. For more than a decade, Nicholas has been making music that has been connecting with people, all around the world, on a deeply human level. Nicholas (Nicholas David) was working with Team CeeLo on NBC’s Season 3 of “The Voice.” Nicholas’ music is fully integrated, incorporating many schools of music and thought. His powerful voice, enriching lyrics, and liquid piano playing truly set him apart and are the reason Skope Magazine calls him “an authentic artist of this millennium.” His one-of-a-kind sound is passionate, captivating, intelligent, diverse, genuine, fresh, and he truly ‘feels’ it. It’s no wonder why his thriving Twin Cities music scene affectionately refers to him as “the feelin”. With five studio albums, national radio play, amazing reviews, and many great charity and collaborative efforts all under his belt, Nicholas is currently back in the studio working on album number six, stronger and more inspired than ever.

Mayor Manny Diaz Partner Lydecker DIaz A force in local, state and national politics for nearly three decades, Manny Diaz was first elected City of Miami Mayor in 2001, having never before held elective office. He was reelected to a second term in 2005, and was chosen to lead the United States Conference of Mayors as its president in 2008. Mayor Diaz developed a vision for Miami as an international City that embodies diversity, economic opportunity, effective customer service and a highly rated quality of life. To achieve this goal, he re-engineered Miami government from top to bottom. During his two-term tenure, Diaz was recognized for completely transforming the City of Miami, and for many nationally recognized innovative programs in the areas of urban design, sustainability and green initiatives, education, infrastructure investment, affordable housing, law enforcement, poverty and homelessness, and arts and culture.

In recognition of his efforts, Diaz has received almost 100 awards and recognitions including, America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report and The Center for Public Leadership (Kennedy School of Government); the Urban Innovator of the Year by the Manhattan Institute; University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research-Annual Urban Leadership Award; Americans for the Arts-National Award for Local Arts Leadership; American Architectural Foundation Keystone Award; The American Institute of Architects Presidential Citation; the AIA (Miami Chapter)Governmental Leadership Award; The Congress for the New Urbanism- Groves Award; Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce Power Leader of the Year and Green Visionary Awards; the Government Award by Hispanic Magazine; the Business Leader of the Year Award by South Florida CEO Magazine; Poder Hispanic Magazine/Global Crisis Foundation Climate Award of the Year and was named an Outstanding American by Choice by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. He is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the US Department of Homeland Security and serves as Vice-Chairman of the Town Square Neighborhood Development Corporation Board of Directors and Honorary Regional Chairman of NewDEAL. He also serves as the Chair for Fair Districts Florida and is a member of the Board of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research, the Miami Foundation, the League of Conservation Voters, Urban Land Institute Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, the National Environmental Education Foundation, City Year Miami, the Florida After School Network, the advisory boards for the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation, the Sustainable Cities Institute, U.S. Green Building Council- South Florida Chapter; Project 2050, the Florida Advisory Committee for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and the Florida Steering Committee for The Children’s Movement of Florida. He recently served as a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and is the author of his soon to be released book, Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time. Mayor Diaz has now resumed his successful corporate and real estate law practice as a senior partner at Lydecker Diaz in Miami, Florida.

Darienne Driver Chief Innovation Officer Milwaukee Public Schools Darienne Driver is the Chief Innovation Officer for the Milwaukee Public School system. In this role, she is responsible for redesigning and implementing instructional programming and support for targeted groups of schools, which includes turnaround high schools, demonstration schools, charter and partnership schools and schools identified for improvement. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Driver served as the Deputy Chief of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) where she led the district-wide implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). During her tenure in SDP, she also served as the Deputy Chief of Empowerment Schools. This turnaround initiative instituted strong instructional programming, targeted professional development and well-coordinated student and family support services to 107 of the district’s lowest performing schools. Ms. Driver once served as the Coordinator of Strategic Management and Accountability for the Clayton County School District in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. In this position, she facilitated the development and implementation of the district strategic plan and provided support and training to school leaders around the school improvement process. Ms. Driver began her career with Detroit Public Schools as a lead reading teacher responsible for developing school improvement plans, coaching and providing professional development for elementary teachers within her building and around the district. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and a Masters degree in Curriculum Development from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ms. Driver earned a second Masters Degree in Education, Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is now a candidate for the Doctor of Education degree from the Urban Superintendents Program.

Secretary Arne Duncan U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is the ninth U.S. secretary of education. He has served in this post since his confirmation by the U.S. Senate on Jan. 20, 2009, following his nomination by President Barack Obama. Duncan’s tenure as secretary has been marked by a number of significant accomplishments on behalf of American students and teachers. He helped to secure congressional support for President Obama’s investments in education, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $100 billion to fund 325,000 teaching jobs, increases in Pell grants, reform efforts such as Race to the Top and the Investing in Innovation, and interventions in low-performing schools. Additionally, he has helped secure an additional $10 billion to avoid teacher layoffs; the elimination of student loan subsidies to banks; and a $500 million national competition for early learning programs. Under Duncan’s leadership at the Department, the Race to the Top program has the incentives, guidance, and flexibility it needs to support reforms in states. The Department also has focused billions of dollars to transform struggling schools, prompting nearly 1,000 low-performing schools nationwide to recruit new staff, adopt new teaching methods, and add learning time. He has led new efforts to encourage labor and management to work together as never before, and their new collaboration is helping to drive reform, strengthen teaching, create better educational options, and improve learning. During Duncan’s tenure, the Department has launched a comprehensive effort to transform the teaching profession. In support of President Obama’s goal for the United States to produce the highest percentage of college graduates by the year 2020, Duncan has helped secure increases in the Pell grant program to boost the number of young Americans attending college and receiving postsecondary degrees. He has begun new efforts to ensure that colleges and universities provide more transparency around graduation, job placement, and student loan default rates. With the income-based repayment program introduced during Duncan’s tenure, student loan payments are being reduced for college graduates in low-paying jobs, and loans will be forgiven after 10 years for persons in certain public service occupations, such as teachers, police officers and firefighters.

Sharif El-Mekki Principal Mastery Charter Shoemaker Campus Sharif El Mekki attended an elementary Freedom School, Iranian middle school, and Overbrook HS in Philadelphia. He matriculated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) as a Criminal Justice Major. After a social worker and counselor stint at the Youth Study Center, a youth adjudication waiting center, Sharif wanted to more positively impact the community. He desired to immerse himself in social justice and equity causes. So he became a teacher through an alternative certification program for African American men. After teaching for 7 years, Sharif served as an administrator at two southwest Philadelphia middle schools. He has been the principal at Mastery Charter School-Shoemaker Campus for five years. His team has been recognized by President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, New Leaders New Schools EPIC award for three straight years, PennCAN and U.S. News and World Reports for turning around failing schools with community support, as a top ten middle school (#10) and top ten high school (#7) for African American students’ achievement in Pennsylvania and accelerating all student achievement. Sharif has partnered with City Year for over 10 years and hired at least four City Year corps members to teach.

Juleanna Glover Founding Principal Ashcroft Group Juleanna Glover advises major corporate clients with high stakes public and government affairs challenges in a myriad and diverse range of issue areas. Ms. Glover has over twenty years experience working on some of the most important government policy debates, high profile political campaigns and corporate controversies in the U.S. and abroad. The New York Times has cited Ms. Glover in 2011 as a “consummate political insider.” She is regularly included in publications’ lists of the most influential and powerful people in the nation’s capital. Ms. Glover has served on the senior staffs of then President-elect George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, presidential candidate Steve Forbes, and then Senator John Ashcroft. She advised Senator John McCain in his 2008 bid for the White House, traveling with him throughout the presidential primary season. Prior to joining The Ashcroft Group, LLC, she was a director at Clark and Weinstock, one of the most respected public and government affairs firms in the country. While at Clark and Weinstock, Ms. Glover was the registered U.S. government affairs advisor for Iraq’s first post-Saddam Hussein ambassador to the United States. Ms. Glover has also advised some of the world’s largest companies ranging from Intelsat, Freddie Mac, Oracle, eBay, Verisign, Intel, and General Dynamics to PhRMA, JP Morgan Chase, ArcelorMittal, First Solar, BNP Paribas, the Big Four accounting firms, Eli Lilly, AT & T, Sallie Mae, etc. Ms. Glover holds a Masters in Public Administration from George Mason University and Bachelor degree in Political Science from Marymount University. She has been featured in profiles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, National Journal, the London Daily Telegraph, and the Financial Times, as well as Elle, Marie Claire, and Washingtonian since leaving the White House in 2002.

Andy Goodman Co-Founder and Director The Goodman Center Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with the book, Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He has been invited to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton, as well as at major foundation and nonprofit conferences. In 2008 he co-founded The Goodman Center (www.thegoodmancenter.com) to offer online versions of his workshops.

Dr. Tom Green Director of School Transformation Alum Rock Union Elementary School District Dr. Tom Green is the Director of School Transformation for the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District. He is responsible for the coordination and alignment of all staff and external support providers in improving teaching and learning.He has been a classroom paraeducator, Resource Specialist, teachers’ union president, chief negotiator, and grievance chair, school board trustee, site principal, district office administrator, and program and staff developer. His doctorate from UC Berkeley focused on the role of district office reorganization in coordinated early intervention for at risk students.

Erica Hamilton Executive Director & Vice President City Year New York Erica Hamilton joins City Year with over fifteen years of experience managing programs and leading teams in the non-profit and private sectors. Prior to joining City Year Erica spent over a decade managing educational and professional development programs at several organizations including iMentor, Prep for Prep, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and the Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship. In her prior roles in the non-profit sector Erica has been responsible for defining and overseeing the growth, quality and innovation of programs serving thousands of students and working professionals. And while working in the private sector Erica has lead teams in the US and abroad to drive business strategy, develop sales and marketing programs and implement strategic initiatives at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Erica’s commitment to service as a full time profession began after graduating from college, when she launched a college preparatory mentoring program for students at her high school alma mater in the Bronx. And while at Wharton, Erica launched the school’s first ever Non Profit Board Leadership Program to motivate MBA students to contribute their time and knowledge to the community by joining local non-profit boards. Erica received her M.B.A from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, her M.P.A from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and her B.A. from Harvard University. She is married and currently resides with her husband Bruce and two children, Alexandra and Coleman, in Brooklyn, New York.

Grace Heintz Partner Bain Consulting Grace Heintz is a partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office. In addition to her work in Bain’s education practice, she focuses on both strategy and performance improvement in the consumer products industry. Grace earned her MBA from the Wharton School in 1998 with a concentration in finance. She is also a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she earned a degree in economics and legal studies. In her spare time, Grace enjoys golf, wine and spending time with her husband and two children on the beach.

Sean Holleran Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer City Year, Inc. Sean Holleran joined City Year when he served as a corps member in 1994-95. After his corps year, Sean served as a team leader and held various jobs including Community and Civic Engagement Manager in Boston and National Convention Director. He joined the staff of City Year Greater Philadelphia as Deputy Director in the site’s second year and was soon promoted to Co-Executive Director, a position he held for three years. Sean then served for one year as the site’s Executive Director before moving back to Boston to serve as Vice President for the Office of Site Leadership, overseeing all U.S. City Year locations. Sean graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor’s degree in English.

Jason Holton Executive Director & Vice President City Year Milwaukee Jason M. Holton is the founding Executive Director and Vice President of City Year Milwaukee. City Year Milwaukee deploys teams of diverse 17-24 year olds into eight Milwaukee Public Schools to serve as mentors, tutors, and role models. Previous to being the Executive Director for City Year Milwaukee, Jason led the City Year Washington, D.C. program and service department as the Deputy Director. In this role, he managed the site’s daily program and service operations & partnerships which include the corps program, service, training, retention, and incorporation of City Year values and culture. During his time in Washington, DC, he participated and graduated from City Year’s inaugural class of LEAD City Year. Jason joined City Year in 2005 as the National Recruitment Systems manager. In his role, he was responsible for the maintenance and development of City Year’s key recruitment systems. In 2006, Jason was promoted to National Recruitment Director overseeing the product & process development for the City Year network recruitment function. As National Recruitment Director, Jason led on the development of City Year’s recruitment profile which is the tool used to assess all incoming corps members. Prior to joining City Year, Jason was the Director of Recruitment and Program Manager for Public Allies - Milwaukee. He received his BA from Lake Forest College where he was a History major and African American Studies Minor. Jason has also been involved as a Board Member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation of SE Wisconsin, the Young Professionals of Milwaukee, and graduate of LeadBoston. He currently serves as an advisory board member for Public Allies Milwaukee Chapter. Jason has most recently been promoted to Regional Vice President overseeing all new start-up sites

Saif Ishoof Executive Director & Vice President City Year Miami Saif Ishoof joined City Year as Executive Director in April of 2009. In his role he works the organizations Board of Directors and Senior Leadership Team to scale City Year’s unique service model throughout Miami-Dade County. Saif ’s professional career spans several years in the management of businesses in the agriculture and engineering space. Saif most recently served as the CEO of FCT Technologies Corp, a firm heavily engaged in international projects in renewable energy, crop science and water resource management. Saif Y. Ishoof received a Bachelor’s of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Saif then obtained his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law. In his capacity as an active citizen, Saif serves as a member of the board of GenerationEngage, which is a national non-profit focused on empowering and engaging young Americans in civic life. Saif is a board member and co-founder of the CVA Foundation, an organization dedicated to fostering the greater involvement of New Americans in the political process. Saif is a past Chairman of the Miami Dade County Asian American Advisory Board. In September of 2007, Saif was named to the Board of the Public Health Trust by the Miami Dade County Board of Commissioners. In this capacity as a Trustee of the PHT, Saif sits on the governing board of Jackson Memorial Health System, the public safety net hospital in Miami Dade County with over 11,000 employees.

Jonathan S. Lavine Managing Director Bain Capital Mr. Lavine is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Sankaty Advisors, which he founded in 1997. Sankaty, an independently managed affiliate of Bain Capital, is one of the leading global credit and distressed debt managers. The firm has over 180 employees with offices in Boston, New York, London, Chicago, Australia and Luxembourg. Sankaty has approximately $19 billion assets under management. He is also a member of the ownership group and a director of the Boston Celtics. Before the formation of Sankaty, Mr. Lavine worked in Bain Capital’s private equity business which he joined in 1993. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Mr. Lavine was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department. Mr. Lavine serves on the boards of Children’s Hospital Trust, City Year, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Be the Change/ Opportunity Nation, Horizons for Homeless Children and Stand for Children. He is also a Trustee of Columbia University having formerly chaired the Columbia College Board of Visitors. In 2011, he and his wife Jeannie endowed the Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health, which supports training and education of humanitarian aid workers. Mr. Lavine graduated Columbia College, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, and holds an M.B.A with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He is a past recipient of Columbia’s John Jay Award for professional achievement and the recipient of the New England Anti-Defamation League’s 2012 Distinguished Community Service Award.

Charisse R. Lillie Vice President of Community Investment, Comcast Corporation President of the Comcast Foundation Charisse R. Lillie is Vice President of Community Investment of Comcast Corporation and President of the Comcast Foundation. She joined Comcast in 2005 as Vice President, Human Resources-Comcast Corporation, and Senior Vice-President, Human Resources-Comcast Cable. She was a partner in the law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP in Philadelphia from January 1992 to February 2005. She was Chair of the Litigation Department from 2002 to 2005, and was a member of the Employment and Labor Law Group of the firm. She also served as an advisor to clients on diversity and anti-discrimination issues. She is a frequent lecturer regarding diversity, community investment and corporate social responsibility. Prior to joining the firm, Charisse’s legal experience included positions as Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; General Counsel to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia; and City Solicitor of the City of Philadelphia. In addition, Charisse has been a member of many civic commissions. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, NBCUniversal Foundation, The Franklin Institute, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Philadelphia Electric Company, an Exelon Company. She is the former chair of the Board of The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In 2012, she received the Inaugural Diversity Leadership Award from Temple University Law Alumni Association. She has been honored by CableFAX: The Magazine in 2011 and 2012 as one of the top minorities and top women in cable. The Houston, TX native received her B.A. in 1973 from Wesleyan University (cum laude); her J.D. in 1976 from Temple Law School (Dean’s Honor List); and her LL.M. in 1982 from Yale Law School. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA, in 2005. In 2011, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Peirce College in Philadelphia, PA. She worked as a research assistant to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. from 1975 to 1976 on his first book, In The Matter of Color. Charisse was law clerk to the Honorable Clifford Scott Green, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1978.

Mike Love Lead Singer The Beach Boys Mike Love, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is lead singer and a founding member of The Beach Boys. Mike wrote the lyrics to The Beach Boys’ first song, “Surfin’,” released in 1961. He then co-authored eleven Top 10 singles in five years with cousin Brian Wilson, a string of hits including “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “California Girls” and “Good Vibrations.” The period between “Good Vibrations” (1966) and The Beach Boys’ biggest selling hit “Kokomo” (1988) is one of the longest spans of time between number one records in history. This feat demonstrates the ageless, timeless appeal of The Beach Boys. Mike Love is the co-author of both of these smash hits. Mike Love was among the first pop musicians to become involved in the practice of Transcendental Meditation. He began practicing TM in December 1967. He was among those who included The Beatles, Donovan, Prudence Farrow and Mia Farrow on their famous trip to Rishikesh in India in 1968. He still maintains his practice of TM and participates with such organizations as the David Lynch Foundation to promote the benefits of Transcendental Meditation. The Beach Boys annual tours have reached all of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia and popular demand has not allowed Mike a summer off in fifty years in his role as lead singer. It was Mike Love’s idea to perform free Independence Day concerts on the grounds of the Washington Monument in the nation’s capital beginning in 1980. After a national uproar following Secretary of Interior James Watt’s ban of The Beach Boys for this event, they returned on July 4, 1984, by a personal invitation from First Lady Nancy Reagan. On July 4, 1985, The Beach Boys played to an afternoon crowd of one million in Philadelphia and the same evening they performed for over 750,000 people on the Mall in Washington. The day’s historical achievement was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. Mike also played a key role in the launch of The Points of Light Foundation and created StarServe (Students Taking Action and Responsibility in Service), the very first Points of Light initiative. Mike Love has also been a longtime supporter of environmental causes and was among speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janiero in 1992 and Earth Day 2000 on the Mall in Washington, D.C.. He created the Love Foundation, which supports national environmental and educational initiatives. He personally donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Lake Tahoe School in Incline Village, Nevada, and has been responsible for raising over $1 million to benefit the school as well as numerous other schools. In 2007, Mike Love spoke on environmental concerns at The National Press Club Luncheon in Washington, DC and was named as a member of Wolf Trap’s National Advisory council on the Arts and Environment. Love proudly carried the Olympic torch for the 2002 Salt Lake City, UT Olympic games, just as he has proudly carried the torch for The Beach Boys for over 50 years.

Peggy Mendoza Executive Director & Vice President City Year New Orleans Prior to joining City Year New Orleans, Peggy was the New Orleans Market Manager for T-Mobile, a National Leadership Sponsor of City Year, Inc. Before joining T-Mobile, she was a District Sales Manager for The Body Shop, a global organization. Peggy managed stores in Louisiana, Florida and Mexico for The Body Shop. Previous to that she was the Regional Sales Manager for Paul Harris stores. At T-Mobile, The Body Shop and Paul Harris, Peggy’s markets were the top performing markets in the nation. She has over 20 years of experience in multi-unit managing and credits her success to her powerful teams. Peggy is nearly a Louisiana native having lived there since the age of 4. She attended elementary, high school and college in New Orleans. She has a Bachelors Degree from Tulane University.

Christine Morin Senior Vice President, Site Growth and New Site Development City Year, Inc. Christine is Senior Vice President of Site Growth and New Site Development at City Year. In this role she leads City Year’s national growth strategy — scaling impact within existing sites to increase the number of students on track to high school graduation and growing to new strategic markets with the highest concentration of urban dropouts. Christine led City Year’s expansion to 7 new markets (Miami, Milwaukee, Denver, London, Sacramento, Orlando and Jacksonville). She also served as the founding Executive Director of City Year Miami. Christine joined City Year in 2005 as the Fireman Public Service Fellow and has held various leadership positions including National Director of the Team Sponsor Program, City Year’s premier corporate partnership program, increasing revenue by over 40% and securing two National Leadership Sponsors. Prior to City Year, Christine served as the founding Director of the International House of Blues Foundation- Orlando, an arts education program for middle and high school students, and she was the Art Administrator for House of Blues. Christine earned her Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and Bachelors in Sociology from Florida State University. Christine earned her Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and Bachelors in Sociology from Florida State University.

Murphy Morobe CEO - Kagiso Media Dip. Proj Management (Damelin) MCF, Princeton Univ. ’91 Murphy Morobe is currently the CEO of Kagiso Media Ltd which is listed on the JSE. His career has spanned a cross section of South African life. Starting off as an anti-apartheid student activist in the 70’s, he went on to straddle the worlds of politics, social development, business, conservation and public service. About 10 years of his life, between 1976 and 1988, was spent in various prisons in South Africa, including Robben Island, as a political prisoner. Prior to being appointed CEO of Kagiso Media, he was Head of Communications in the Office of the Presidency – (2004 – 2006) He had joined the Presidency after a 10 year stint as the Chairman and CEO of the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), which he established in 1994 as provided for in terms of the provisions of the then new constitution of democratic South Africa. The FFC is tasked by the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa to make recommendations and to give advice to Parliament regarding the equitable sharing of nationally collected revenues between the national, provincial and local governments. He has also held directorships in various institutions and companies, among which is Old Mutual South Africa. He was Non-Executive Chairman of Ernst & Young (SA)and the Chairman of the South African National Parks Board, a statutory body responsible for the management of South Africa’s national parks. A highlight of Murphy’s career was the role he played as one of the leaders of the United Democratic Front which in the 1980’s intensified the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, eventually leading to the unbanning of organisations like the ANC, the release of political prisoners, the negotiations of our new constitution and ultimately freedom in 1994. Murphy currently also sits on the boards of WWF (SA), Remgro Pty. Ltd, and is chairman of Food and Trees for Africa as well as being a co- chairperson of City Year South Africa.

Pawn Nitichan Executive Director & Vice President City Year New Hampshire Pawn Nitichan was a founding staff team member of City Year New Hampshire and currently serves as the Executive Director of City Year NH and a Vice President of City Year Inc. During Nitichan’s tenure, City Year NH (CYNH) has more than doubled its service capacity, hosted the National Convention during the Presidential Primaries, and moved its service location to New Hampshire’s largest city, Manchester, where the corps currently serves in the six lowest performing elementary schools in the state. With Nitichan’s leadership and her deep and abiding commitment to helping students & corps succeed, CYNH has developed a recognized culture of idealism, consistently providing high quality services to kids and community, reflected in numerous awards, including the Best of City Year Award (CYNH being one of only two sites that have received this award consecutively since the 2008 award inception), the University of New Hampshire’s President’s Community Partner Award, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare’s Community Hero Award, as well as the Corporate Fund’s Dunfey Award --one of the most prestigious awards in NH to recognize outstanding management skills and talent within the nonprofit sector. In addition, Nitichan’s wealth of experience in building public-private partnerships, as well as her successes in building relationship with political leaders in the state, have helped strengthen and gain support for both City Year and AmeriCorps. Outside of her professional work, Nitichan is an active resident on the Seacoast of New Hampshire; she is a past President of the Seacoast Rotary Club and a recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow Award. She sat on various community boards including the Haymarket People’s Fund and Danny’s Team. Nitichan is also a graduate of the Seacoast Leadership Program and the Full Circle Leadership Program for Women Executives. Nitichan was born and raised in Thailand and because of her interest in diverse cultures; she became a student ambassador in the international student exchange program at Assumption University (ABAC). As a result of her involvement, Nitichan was the first student invited to continue her education at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. She has since made a permanent life in the United States. She enjoys art, nature, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.

Sissi O’Reilly Principal William Jefferson Clinton Middle School Los Angeles Unified School District Sissi O’Reilly is the principal at William Jefferson Clinton Middle School in Los Angeles. She has been principal there since July 2011. Prior to this assignment, she served as an assistant principal at Lincoln High School and Eagle Rock High School , a Secondary Literacy Specialist at the LAUSD Central Office, and English Language Arts Advisor at LAUSD Local District Office 4. She began her teaching career in 1999 at Franklin High School, where she taught grades 9-11 and courses ranging from language intervention to AP. She holds a Master’s Degree in Education Administration from Pepperdine University, Master’s Degree in English Literature from CSU, Los Angeles, and proudly, a Bachelor’s from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Pablo G. Ortiz Assistant Superintendent, Education Transformation Office Miami-Dade County Public Schools Pablo G. Ortiz, Ed.D. and his wife, Ana, have been married 21 years and have three wonderful children, but when he speaks about the 900 students at Miami Edison Senior High School, it’s as though they were his kids, too. In one year he transformed Miami Edison from an “F” to a “C” school for the first time in the school’s history, and improved the graduation rate from 49% to 74%. Under his leadership, Miami Edison saw their first Silver Knight recipient in 18 years, and three students earned the coveted Gates Millennium Scholarship Award. From a school that was targeted for closing just three years ago, Dr. Ortiz has led the most dramatic three-year turnaround of any school in Florida successfully maintaining the school’s “C” rating for two consecutive years and achieving a “B” rating for the 2012-2013 school year.

Dr. Ortiz earned his Associate in Arts degree at Miami Dade College where he was recently inducted in the school’s Hall of Fame. He finished his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education at Florida International University. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University. He has served for 16 years as an assistant principal or principal in schools throughout Miami-Dade. Dr. Ortiz became the school district’s first Provost when he joined Miami Edison Senior High in 2009. From a school riddled with problems and the lowest performance of any in the state, he brought new academies to the school, developed close partnerships with community organizations like the Little Haiti Cultural Center, and led an aggressive, drastic cultural change involving students, teachers, parents and the community that has greatly increased opportunities for all. Dr. Ortiz has been honored as the district’s only two-time Miami-Dade County Public Schools Principal of the Year in 2006 and 2012. He was recently named recipient of the 2012-2013 Principal Achievement Award for Outstanding Leadership as the top principal in the state of Florida. He has recently been promoted as Assistant Superintendent to spearhead the expansion of the Education Transformation Office to 66 schools district-wide.

Jeremy Owoh Principal of J.A. Fair High School Little Rock School District A native of Camden, Arkansas, Mr. Owoh graduated from the University of Central Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Education. After graduating from UCA, he obtained a Masters degree in Secondary Education and a Specialist degree in School Administration. He is pursuing an Educational Doctoral degree in Administrative Leadership. He serves on the executive board for the Little Rock Writing Project and the Arkansas Rice Depot. He is a member of St Matthew COGIC in North Little Rock, AR., and he is a Life Member in the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Currently, Jeremy is the Principal at J.A. Fair High School Little Rock, the Assistant Director of the Arkansas Commitment Program and the Lead Consultant of the Owoh Consulting Group, LLC. He is married to Katrina Owoh; they have a son, Jaxon (pronounced as Jackson).

Jonathan P. Raymond Superintendent Sacramento City Unified School District Jonathan Raymond is Superintendent of the Sacramento City Unified School District, California’s 11th largest school district (47,000 students) located in the heart of the state capital. Since his appointment in July 2009, Raymond has accomplished several objectives of the district’s Strategic Plan 2010-14: Putting Children First, including: the creation of seven Superintendent’s Priority Schools to offer extra assistance to the district’s most academically troubled campuses; the implementation of Early Kinder, a two-year transitional kindergarten program aimed at ending the cycle of “start behind, stay behind,”; the development of Chinese and Hmong language immersion programs; the expansion of high school Linked Learning academies to provide college and career bound students with real-world experiences; a phased-in implementation of Common Core Standards to add rigor and relevance to curriculum; and the historic adoption of the “Sacramento High Performing Schools Compact,” a commitment to improving Sacramento’s educational climate signed by the district and charter school providers and supported by the Gates Foundation. In addition, under Raymond’s leadership the district became the first on the West Coast to be awarded a fully funded Green Fellow from the US Green Building Council, a position critical to ensuring the environmental sustainability of SCUSD’s 81 campuses. Prior to his appointment, Raymond, a graduate of Tufts University, George Mason Law School and the Broad Superintendents Academy, served as Chief Accountability Officer for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Raymond’s

extensive experience extends beyond education: He was president and CEO of the non-profit, Boston-based Commonwealth Corporation; a deputy director in the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development; and a private practice attorney specializing in business and labor law.

Dr. Heidi Ramírez Education Consultant Dr. Heidi A. Ramírez, an education consultant, is the former Chief Academic Officer (CAO) for Milwaukee Public Schools. As CAO, Dr. Ramirez lead teaching and learning for the 80,000 student district, including oversight for the Offices of Research and Evaluation, Specialized Services, and Curriculum and Instruction. She was responsible for the district-wide implementation of the Common Core State Standards and vision for instructional improvement, including the Comprehensive Literacy Plan (CLP) and Comprehensive Mathematics and Science Plan (CMSP). Dr. Ramírez is former Associate Dean and the founding director of the Urban Education Collaborative in the College of Education at Temple University. Prior to Temple University, Dr. Ramírez was an Education Program Consultant at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she provided advice on investments in urban education, district-level reform, and initiatives to improve teaching and learning for English language learners. In 2008-2009, Dr. Ramírez served as Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell’s appointee to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, the five-member appointed board charged with the oversight of the School District of Philadelphia. Among other roles, she also served on the Board of Directors for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Early Learning Council, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute on College Access, and is a member of the Higher Education Council of the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality. Dr. Ramírez earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She also has an MA in sociology (Stanford University), an EdM in education policy and administration (Harvard University) and a BFA in art education (Syracuse University).

Sarah Roberson Executive Director & Vice President City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock Sarah Roberson is a proud alumna of the ’97 and ’98 City Year San José/Silicon Valley Corps and is currently the Executive Director of City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock. Sarah has spent over a decade serving with City Year in a variety of roles but is most proud of being part of the City Year Little Rock Start-up team serving as the founding Program/Service/Recruitment Director. In addition to her work with City Year, Sarah has also served as the Director of Programs for the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and as the Program Coordinator for American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley. She has a degree in Political Science from San Jose State University and is a recipient of the Comcast Leadership Award.

Toni Schwarzenbach Burke Executive Director & Vice President City Year San José/Silicon Valley Toni Schwarzenbach Burke is Vice President and Executive Director of City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley. In her new role she will help lead 65 AmeriCorps members serving in seven schools, impacting more than 3,600 students every day. Toni came to City Year with extensive experience in building successful nonprofits and managing high-performing teams. As Director of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Foundation, she led a growing Network of nearly 500 Segal Founders and Fellows in 10 different states. During her tenure she helped establish the organizations threeyear strategic plan, established partnerships with leading national organizations, mayoral and state capital offices, Congressional offices, federal agencies, and the White House. These connections have supported efforts to promote national service and citizen leadership around the country.

Previously, she served as a Policy Fellow in Atlanta advancing the rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina and also helped create a federal policy agenda for rural America. Toni completed her Master’s in Public Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut. She currently resides in San Jose with her husband, Mark Burke.

Phyllis J. Segal Vice President Encore.org As Vice President of Encore.org, Phyllis Segal leads programs aimed at understanding and expanding encore careers as an important source of talent to meet society’s most pressing needs. These programs include: action-oriented research (including the MetLife Foundation/Encore.org papers on encore opportunities, the Encore Career Survey and the Survey of Nonprofit Employers); developing pathways and high-impact opportunities for encore careers in health care and other sectors; and promoting promising encore employer practices. This work builds upon Segal’s extensive experience in the nonprofit and public sectors – leading organizations, advocating for social justice, teaching and practicing law. She is a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, a member of the Board of Overseers of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management and co-founder of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program at Brandeis University. Last year, she served on President Obama’s transition team, preparing an agency review for the incoming administration. In her earlier career, Segal was the founding Legal Director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and subsequently served as the fund’s President. She also served as Chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and as a trustee and consultant for other nonprofit organizations. In her prior public service, Segal was Chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority and Deputy Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Tom Sheridan President Sheridan Group A social worker by training and an advocate by trade, Tom Sheridan brings a unique perspective to his work as a public policy strategist in Washington DC, where The Hill newspaper has called him “A powerbroker for those without a voice.” He was recently named a ‘top lobbyist of 2012’ by The Hill, described as “a bulwark against proposed budget cuts that could hurt several social service nonprofits.” Tom began his career at the National Association of Social Workers and the Child Welfare League before joining the AIDS Action Council in the late 1980s, quickly becoming the influential leader in the movement by establishing the nation’s first AIDS lobby, which eventually involved more than 140 national organizations. He was the chief architect and strategist on the enactment of landmark legislation for the HIV/AIDS community, the Ryan White CARE Act, as well as the chair of the lobby effort on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In 1991, Tom founded The Sheridan Group where he and his team work to craft effective strategies for sociallyresponsible public policy initiatives. Over the years, The Sheridan Group has become the go-to firm in the nation’s capital for grassroots advocacy and coalition-building for nonprofits, social entrepreneurs and other agents of change. Leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election, Tom served as the lead strategist for a 2-year bipartisan campaign to engage the candidates in adopting policy proposals to increase innovation, strategic investment, and accountability in public problem solving. President-elect Obama committed to creating the Social Innovation Fund in December of 2007. The Fund was authorized as part of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2008 and is implemented by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election, Tom served as the lead strategist for a 2-year bipartisan campaign to engage the candidates in adopting policy proposals to increase innovation, strategic investment, and accountability in public problem solving. President-elect Obama committed to creating the Social Innovation Fund in December of 2007. The Fund was authorized as part of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2008 and is implemented by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Erik Smith Founder Blue Engine Message & Media Erik Smith advises corporations, non-profits and individuals on the development, planning and implementation of comprehensive communications strategies. Prior to entering private practice in 2005, Erik worked for more than a decade at the intersection of politics and policy as a lead strategist and counselor to Senators, Congressmen and party committees. In addition to his experience as a press strategist, spokesman and media trainer, Erik has an expertise in crisis communications, most notably in shaping congressional communications strategy in the days after 9/ll and the anthrax attacks on the U.S. Capitol. In 2008 and 2012, Erik was a senior advisor for advertising and message development to the Obama-Biden presidential campaign where he designed, developed and placed television, radio and print advertising as part of a team that, according to The New York Times, “unleashed an advertising campaign of a scale and complexity unrivaled in the television era.” Erik produced high-profile special events for the Obama campaign, including the 2008 and 2012 Democratic National Conventions and the historic 30-minute network television broadcast seen by more than 35 million viewers in October 2008. Erik also served as Creative Director for the 2009 and 2013 Presidential Inauguration Committees. Erik was the senior communications advisor to Rep. Dick Gephardt in the House Democratic Leader’s office, and his 2004 presidential campaign; prior to that he was the Communications Director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Erik is a founding board member of both Organizing for Action and Business Forward and serves as a delegate to the China-US Exchange Program cosponsored by the Center for America Progress. A frequent guest on cable and radio news programs including CNN, FOX News Channel and NPR, Erik is one of National Journal magazine’s 100 “political insiders” surveyed weekly on newsworthy political and public policy issues.

Gillian Smith Chief Marketing Officer City Year, Inc. Gillian Smith joined City Year in July of 2011 as Chief Marketing Officer, and is responsible for leading all of the organization’s marketing efforts. Prior to her work at City Year, Gillian was Chief Marketing Officer at Teach For America, where the recruitment marketing work contributed to more than a 150% increase in applications over the course of four years. Before Teach For America, Smith held several marketing roles at Burger King Corporation (BKC). Under her leadership, BKC marketing campaigns received a number of honors, including Cannes Golden Lions and Best Viral Advertising of 2004 (The Wall Street Journal). Smith has been recognized as a Woman to Watch by Advertising Age (May 2006) and an Online All-Star by MediaPost (September 2006). Prior to her work at BKC, Smith was a brand manager for the Coca-Cola Company in Germany. Smith is a graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.

Wendy Spencer Chief Executive Officer Corporation for National and Community Service Wendy Spencer began her duties as the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) on April 9, 2012, shortly after her nomination was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She has a proven track record of nearly 30 years in volunteer management and administration, and she is the first CEO to come to CNCS directly from the field of national service. Prior to joining CNCS, Wendy served eight years as the CEO of the Florida Governor’s Commission on Volunteerism, commonly known as Volunteer Florida. As the leader of this bipartisan, governor-appointed commission, Wendy managed between $18 million and $23 million in federal, state, and local grants each year. During the state’s recordbreaking 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, the agency coordinated donations worth more than $85 million and more than 252,000 volunteers, the largest mobilization of volunteers in the history of U.S. natural disasters at that time.

Wendy received the prestigious 2005 Governor’s Award from Gov. Jeb Bush for her leadership of this effort. Wendy has been recognized nationwide for her leadership in the volunteer sector. In 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Wendy to the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. In 2010, she was elected by her peers to chair the American Association of State Service Commissions, the nonprofit association that advocates for 54 state service commissions promoting national and community service across the United State.

Bryan Stevenson Founder & Executive Director Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill and aiding children prosecuted as adults. EJI recently won an historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life without- parole sentences for all children 17 or younger are unconstitutional. EJI has also initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts. Mr. Stevenson’s work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards including the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize, the Olaf Palme International Prize, the ACLU National Medal Of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, the NAACP Ming Award for Advocacy, the Gruber Prize for International Justice and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, has been awarded 13 honorary doctorate degrees and is also a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

Rich Stombres Vice President Penn Hill Group Rich brings over 12 years of federal education and job training initiatives to Penn Hill Group. Prior to joining Penn Hill Group, Stombres was director of government relations in the education group at Van Scoyoc Associates. Stombres previously served as the deputy director of education and human services policy for the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. He managed professional and legislative staff in the drafting and negotiation of education and human services policy legislation. He also supervised legislative activities related to various programs under the committee’s jurisdiction, including early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, job training, older Americans, and teacher preparation. Prior to that, Stombres worked for the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the U.S. House Committee on Science. Stombres served in the U.S. Army (Reserve) with the 80th Training Division from 1989–1997. He graduated from the U.S. Army (Reserve) Drill Sergeant School, 80th Division Leadership Academy in Dublin, Virginia, and was awarded the Army Achievement Medal as an outstanding drill sergeant during his unit’s annual training in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Stombres completed the U.S. Army (Reserve) Primary Leadership Development Course at Fort Dix, New Jersey, as honor graduate and graduated from the U.S. Army (Reserve) Military Police School at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Stombres has a master’s degree in liberal studies with a concentration in international affairs from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from the University of the State of New York, Regents College.

Kerry Swarr Director of Human Capital Urban Teacher Center Kerry has spent her entire career working in public school systems, government, and non-profits. She has been the Director of Human Capital for Urban Teacher Center since October 2010 overseeing the organization’s national recruitment strategy for future teacher talent. Before joining Urban Teacher Center, she provided direct support to three CEOs over six years at the Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools), serving on the school system’s leadership team. During Kerry’s tenure, City Schools produced six years of academic improvement in all subjects and grades. Before joining City Schools, she served on the Gates funded High School Reform Initiative at the Fund for Educational Excellence and served as staff to the Education Affinity group with the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. Beginning in 1997, she spent five years with the Maryland Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, working on K-12 and Higher Education policy, prevention, and juvenile justice reform. She started her career in the State of Maryland as a Governor’s Policy Advisor, helping to start the Live Near Your Work Program with the Department of Housing and Community Development and as staff to the Public School Construction Program. She earned her B.A. in Government from Dartmouth College and her M.A. in Public Policy from Georgetown University.

Dr. Gregory E. Thornton Superintendent Milwaukee Public Schools Gregory Thornton was appointed Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools in 2010. Under his administration, and with the support of the Board of School Directors, the district is transitioning to the Common Core State Standards through reformulated curriculum and instructional practices in the areas of literacy, math and science. Additionally, the district continues to implement a Long Range Facilities Master Plan and make changes to the structure of employee benefits and post employment legacy costs in an effort to help assure sustainability for the district. Prior to coming to Milwaukee, Dr. Thornton served as Superintendent of Chester Upland School District in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he facilitated reforms to bring about increases in student achievement, created school-community partnerships and improved the fiscal and business efficiencies of the district. He served previously as Chief Academic Officer of The School District of Philadelphia and has held leadership positions in large school districts in Maryland and North Carolina. Dr. Thornton received a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, and his Master of Arts degree in Administration/Supervision at Salisbury State University in Maryland. He earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. Dr. Thornton enjoys sports, reading and spending time with his family. He and his wife have two sons, and one granddaughter.

Todd Tuney Executive Director & Vice President City Year Columbus Todd Tuney joined City Year as the Executive Director of City Year Columbus in November 2011. Before joining City Year, Todd was Manager of Philanthropy for Limited Brands, Inc since June 2007. He was responsible for the company’s corporate and foundation giving, ensuring quality stewardship of relationships with the non-profit and philanthropic community. Before joining Limited Brands, Todd served as development director for the Buckeye Ranch. He has spent the majority of his professional career in the non-profit sector, from government regulation to grassroots social services. His public service career spans nearly 15 years, including seven years on the staff of Ohio attorney general’s charitable law section. Todd has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Pomona College in Claremont, California. He is also the proud father of Leah Amil Tuney.

Nicole Veltzé Principal, North High School Denver Public Schools Ms. Veltzé has 19 years of experience in education, beginning with her service with Teach for America in Oakland, California in 1993. Following Oakland, she taught high school at her alma mater, Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Lima, Peru. In 2001 she earned her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction: Instructional Technology at the University of Washington – Seattle and she completed her administrator certification through the prestigious Danforth Leadership Program. Ms. Veltzé started her career with Denver Public Schools as Principal at Cole Middle School. Within two years at Cole, Veltzé was promoted to Northeast Area Assistant Superintendent serving from 2004 – 2006. Recognized for her leadership as an Area Assistant Superintendent, Veltzé was asked to serve as principal of Skinner Middle School – one of the lowest performing middle schools in the district. Within five years, under Veltzé’s leadership, Skinner outpaced all expectations for school turnaround and is now one of the top performing middle schools in Denver Public Schools. Again, recognized for her success with school turnaround, Veltzé was selected as the principal of North High School in August 2011. Upon her appointment to North High, the North Denver Tribune said, “Veltzé might be the most important person in our neighborhood’s future,” referencing her tenacity to bring change to school culture. Since her appointment in 2011, North High School has seen double digit proficiency increases in science, writing and reading. In just one school year, structures and protocols instituted by Veltzé have begun to make an impact in changing school culture and increasing academic achievement.

Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti Superintendent Duval County Public Schools Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti was appointed as Superintendent of Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) in November of 2012. His goal is to improve the district from good to great by increasing the achievement levels of all students. This will be accomplished by focusing on the following areas: • • • • • •

Early childhood education; Improving the graduation rate; Developing instructional leaders; Improving teacher quality and morale; Streamlining the efficiency of business and operations; and Strengthening parent and community involvement

Prior to being named Superintendent of DCPS, Dr. Vitti was the Chief Academic Officer of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, where he led 66 of the lowest-performing schools in the county. Before returning to Miami to lead ETO, Dr. Vitti served as Deputy Chancellor of School Improvement with FLDOE as well as Bureau Chief of School Improvement/Executive Director for Region one/Lead Director for Differentiated Accountability. Dr. Vitti received the prestigious Presidential Scholarship from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and was a member of the urban superintendent program. In 2012, he completed his doctorate from Harvard in education, administration, planning and social policy.

Kat Walsh Program Manager City Year Denver Originally from Seattle, Washington, Kat graduated from the University of Denver earning her Bachelors and MBA in 2009, in Marketing with a minor in Leadership. Upon graduating from DU, Kat joined Teach for America and taught elementary school in San Francisco for four years where she helped her students achieve significant academic gains in reading and math. This transformative experience included training and credentialing new teachers which helped her grow as an educational coach. After moving back to Denver in 2012, she joined City Year as a Program Manager where she supports a team of 11 dedicated AmeriCorps volunteers who provide academic interventions and coordinate wholeschool initiatives at North High School.

Kim Ward Trustee and Managing Director, Michael & Kim Ward Foundation Board Chair of City Year Jacksonville Kim Ward is Trustee and Executive Director for the Michael & Kim Ward Foundation, where she oversees a fund with a net worth of $10 million and partners with a variety of organizations including One Love Foundation, the Wounded Warrior Project and City Year. Prior to her role with the Michael & Kim Ward Foundation, she spent more than 15 years in the healthcare industry, holding senior sales positions for two Fortune 500 Companies. Kim holds an MBA in International Business from Temple University, where she also attended undergrad and received a BA in Economics and Political Science. She and her family reside in Baltimore, Maryland and Jacksonville, Florida. Kim is very active in the Baltimore and Jacksonville communities, and currently serves as the Chairman of the One Love Foundation National Advisory Council, and the Founding Chair of the City Year Jacksonville Board.

Judy Woodruff Co-Anchor and Senior Correspondent PBS NewsHour Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. After returning to the NewsHour in 2007 as a senior correspondent, she now regularly co-anchors the newly redesigned PBS NewsHour. For 12 years, Woodruff served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program, Inside Politics. Woodruff also played a central role in the network’s political coverage and other major news stories. At PBS from 1983 to 1993, she was the chief Washington correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. From 1984-1990, she also anchored PBS’ award-winning weekly documentary series, Frontline with Judy Woodruff. In 2011, Woodruff was the principal reporter for the PBS documentary Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. In 2007, Woodruff completed an extensive project on the views of young Americans called Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard. Two hour-long documentaries aired on many PBS stations in January and September, 2007, along with a series of reports on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR and in USA Today. In addition, she anchors a monthly program for Bloomberg Television, Conversations with Judy Woodruff. Through fall 2006, Woodruff was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, teaching a weekly seminar course on media and politics. In the fall of 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where she led a study group for students on contemporary issues in journalism. At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982. For one year after that she served as NBC’s Today chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book, This is Judy Woodruff at the White House, published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley. Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide. She serves on the boards of trustee of the Freedom Forum, the Newseum and the Urban Institute. She also serves as a member of The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and the board of the National Museum of American History. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita.

Woodruff is the recent recipient of the Cine Lifetime Achievement award, a Duke Distinguished Alumni award, the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Broadcast Journalism/Television, the University of Southern California Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, among others.

Stephen G. Woodsum Founding Managing Director Summit Partners Stephen G. Woodsum cofounded Summit Partners in 1984. Prior to Summit, he was a General Partner at TA Associates and an Investment Analyst at First Chicago Investment Corporation. Steve has served as a director of many public and private companies. His past directorships include CIDCO (NASDAQ: CDCO), Clean Harbors (NASDAQ: CLHB, later NYSE: CLH), Information Builders, QMS (NYSE: QMSI, later acquired by Minolta) and Superior Services (NASDAQ: SUPR). Steve holds a BA in psychology from Yale University and a Masters in Management from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He serves on the boards of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, Jumpstart for Young Children, and is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is also Chair of the National Board of City Year, an organization that recruits young people for community service in 24 U.S. cities and Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England. Steve is a former President of the New England Venture Capital Association.

Stephanie Wu Senior Vice President and Chief Program Design and Evaluation Officer City Year, Inc. Stephanie leads the design of City Year’s youth programs, such as Whole School Whole Child, which are delivered in 24 locations and hundreds of schools across the country. Stephanie came to City Year from the private sector in 1988 as a founding team leader in City Year’s summer pilot program. During City Year’s first decade she developed and led projects serving Boston youth in school and out of school programs as well as founded City Year’s Academy, putting in place foundational programs on City Year’s culture, ideals, history, programs and leadership techniques. She has held a number of management positions, including Co-Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of U.S. Site Operations, and Senior Vice President for Human Resources. Through City Year, she has had the opportunity to support the development of City Year’s youth programs in South Africa and London, U.K. Stephanie has served on a number of boards in the Boston area and has been selected to participate in a variety of national and international programs related to service and building community. Stephanie is a graduate of Boston University.

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cit y ye a r.org City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization founded in 1988 that partners with public schools to help keep students in school and on track to graduate. This innovative public-private partnership brings together teams of young AmeriCorps members who commit to a year of full-time service in schools. Corps members support students by focusing on attendance, behavior, and course performance through in-class tutoring, mentoring, and after school programs.

Charity Navigator Highest Rating Charity Navigator is America’s premier charity evaluator. Since 2003, City Year has earned Charity Navigator’s highest rating, certifying our commitment to accountability, transparency and responsible fiscal management. Only 1% of rated organizations have received this distinction for eight consecutive years, placing City Year among the most trustworthy nonprofits in America.