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Anthony Alvarado is the former Chancellor of Instruction of the San Diego City Schools.
Stuart Appelbaum is President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Committee.
Lilliam Barrios Paoli is a Senior Vice President of the United Way of New York City. She was the Commissioner of the New York City Departments of Employment, Personnel and Housing Preservation and Development as well as Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration.
Samuel Berger is the Chairman of Stonebridge International LLC. He was National Security Adviser to President Clinton.
David Boies is a founding partner of the Boies & Schiller law firm and argued the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore on behalf of Vice President Gore.
Kathryn Bushkin is Senior Vice President of AOL Time Warner and President of the AOL Time Warner Foundation.
Larry Buttenwieser, a former Chairman of the Citizens Budget Commission, is Counsel at the firm Rosenman & Colin.
Geoffrey Canada is the President/CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone and the author of Reaching Up For Manhood and Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America.
Robert A. Caro is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and three volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, Means of Ascent and Master of the Senate .
Ellen Chesler is a senior fellow and the director of the Program on Reproductive Health and Rights at the Open Society Institute. She is the author of Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America.
Joan Claybrook is President of Public Citizen.
Mario Cuomo, a partner at the Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher law firm, was governor of New York State from 1983 to 1995.
David N. Dinkins, a Professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, was the 106th Mayor of the City of New York.
Suzanne A. DuBose is President of the new global Verizon Foundation and serves as the development chair for the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS.
Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He was Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the US Department of Health of Human Services and has also served as a legislative assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and as special assistant to Assistant Attorney General John Douglas at the US Department of Justice.
Angelo Falcon is the Senior Policy Executive at the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Barbara Fife is Director of External Affairs at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs and was the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Development under Mayor Dinkins.
Michael Fishman is President of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.
James K. Galbraith is a professor of public affairs and government at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He is the author of Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay and Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View. He is also a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute and Chair of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction.
Danny Goldberg is the Chairman/CEO of Artemis Records. He is the President of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and is a board member of the following organizations: NYCLU, MAP, Rock the Vote, and Americans for Peace Now. He is also a published author for Miramax Books as well as a partner of RDV Books.
Michael Goodwin is President of the 140,000 member Office and Professional Employees International Union and serves on the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO.
Elinor Guggenheimer founded the New York Women’s Agenda in 1992 and the Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City in 1979. She served as Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs under Mayor Beame.
Sidney Harman is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Harman International Industries. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Public Agenda and served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1977 - 1978.
Elizabeth Holtzman still holds the record as the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the only woman elected DA and Comptroller for the City of New York. She also has won national attention for her role on the House judicial committee during Watergate.
Craig Kaplan is a Partner in the law firm of Levinson and Kaplan and a member of the Board of the CUNY Graduate Center Foundation.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. is a Professor at Pace University School of Law and Co-Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic. He is also chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund and senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Kenneth Lerer, past Executive Vice President at AOL Time Warner, is currently head of Kenneth Lerer Associates, LLC and a lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bertha Lewis is Executive Director of New York ACORN and the Co-Chair of the Working Families Party.
Beth Lief, was the founding president and CEO of New Visions for Public Schools.
Jeffrey Lynford is the co-founder and Chairman of Wellsford Real Properties. Jeffrey is a Trustee of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, the Citizens Budget Commission, the Eos Orchestra, Polytechnic University and its Institute for Mathematics and Advances Supercomputing, and the Lynford Family Charitable Trust. He sponsors the Lynford Lecture Series at Polytechnic University. Also, he is a member of the Advisory Council of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, a Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Ex Officio Trustee of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. He is a member of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate and Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science and the Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University.
Sally Minard was a founder of Lotas Minard Patton McIver, an advertising and marketing communications firm. She is co-chair of the Democratic National Committee Women's Leadership Forum in New York State and serves on the boards of the American Red Cross in Greater New York, The New School and LORAL Space and Communications. She previously served as president of the New York Women's Agenda, and Advertising Women of New York.
John Mollenkopf is the Director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition and was the co-editor of Rethinking the Urban Agenda.
Moises Perez is Founder and Executive Director of Alianza Dominicana.
Letty Pogrebin is president of the Authors Guild and the author of eight books, most recently Getting Over Getting Older . She was a founding editor of Ms. Magazine.
Andrew Rasiej is the President & CEO of the Digital Club Network. He is also the founder of MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools and Education), a model organization for delivering technology to students in public schools.
Bruce Ratner is President and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies. He is a former Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for the City of New York.
Edgar Romney is the Secretary Treasurer of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!). He also serves as Manager-Secretary of Local 23-25, the largest affiliate of UNITE.
Stanley K. Sheinbaum is the publisher of New Perspectives Quarterly. He has served as Chairman of the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Southern California, Regent of the University of Californiaand President of the Los Angeles Police Commission.
Robert Shrum is Chairman of the political media consulting firm Shrum, Devine & Donilon and co-founder of The Democracy Corps.
Russell Simmons is the co-founder and co-owner of Def Jam Records and Rush Productions.
Andrew Tobias is a columnist and author of numerous books including three New York Times best-sellers.
Michael Waldman is the former director of speechwriting for President Clinton. Currently a partner at Cuneo Waldman & Gilbert, LLP, he is the author, most recently, of My Fellow Americans: The Most Important Presidential Speeches from George Washington to George W. Bush. He has taught at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Marie Wilson is President of the Ms. Foundation for Women and President of The White House Project.
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