Whitney Hatch
Chair
Fmr. Regional Director for New England, Trust for Public Land; Fmr. Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, GTE Corporation
Board & Advisors
Board
David Gerson
Secretary
Founder and President, Beechwood Property Holdings; Fmr. Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Barbara Brenner Buder
Treasurer
Fmr. CFO, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Fmr. Executive Vice President, BankAmerica Corp, Corporate Strategy & Development
Diana Aviv
President, Diana Aviv Consultants: Leadership, Strategy, Social Innovation; Fmr. CEO, Feeding America
Deanna Ballard
North Carolina State Senator (R); fmr. Commissioned Officer in the George W. Bush administration
Bill Burgess
General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Julie Ann Crommett
Founder and CEO, Collective Moxie
Carlos Curbelo
Member of Congress 2015 – 2019 (R-FL); Co-founder and fmr. co-chair of the Climate Solutions Caucus; Distinguished visiting fellow at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy; Founder of Vocero, LLC
Katie Fahey
Executive Director, The People; Founder and fmr. Executive Director, Voters Not Politicians
Richard Gephardt
Member of Congress 1977- 2005 (D-MO); House Majority Leader 1989-1995; House Minority Leader 1995-2003; President and CEO of Gephardt Government Affairs
Dan Glickman
Member of Congress, 1977-1995 (D-KS); U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1995-2001; Fmr. Director, Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; Fmr. Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America; Fmr. Executive Director, Aspen Institute Congressional Program; Senior Counselor, International Advisory Council Chair, APCO Worldwide; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Member, ReFormers Caucus
Emil Hill
Executive Vice President, Public Affairs Powell Tate| Weber Shandwick
J.B. Lyon
Co-director, Rebuild Congress Initiative; Managing Director, Mount Independence Investments; Fmr. Managing Director, ZBI Ventures; Fmr. General Partner, Vision Media Investors; Fmr. Vice President for Business Development and Staples.com Operations, Staples, Inc.
Tom Ridge
Member of Congress, 1983-1995 (R-PA); Governor, 1995-2001 (R-PA); Secretary of Homeland Security; Founder and Chairman of Ridge Global; Member, ReFormers Caucus
Ian Simmons
President, Foundation for Civic Leadership; Co-founder, ActBlue
Peter Staple
Fmr. President and CEO of Corium, Inc. and BioSeek, Inc.; Fmr. Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and General Counsel of ALZA Corporation
Patrick Toussaint
Executive Director, HR Strategy at JPMorgan Chase; Co-Founder, Hudson County Progressive Alliance
Linda Jordan Willard
Fmr. Sr. Policy Adviser, TCH Group, LLC; Fmr. Attorney, Sullivan & Worcester and Verner Liipfert; Fmr. Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Advisory Board
- Co-chair Bill Bradley
Senator (D-NJ 1979-1997); Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC; Olympian; NBA Hall of Famer; Best-Selling Author - Co-chair Alan Simpson
Senator (R-WY 1979-1997); Senate Republican Whip (1985-1995); Chairperson, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010) - Julie Belaga
Chief Operating Officer, Export-Import Bank (1994-1999); State Representative, Connecticut House (1977-1987) - Michael Chertoff
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009); Judge, U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (2003-2005); Assistant U.S. Attorney General (2001-2003); U.S. Attorney for the District of NJ (1990-1994) - Wesley Clark
U.S. Army General (Ret.); NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1997-2000); CEO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates - Fran Codispoti
Philanthropist - Tom Daschle
U.S. Senator (1987-2005); U.S. Congressman (1979-1987) - Charles Fried
Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; U.S. Solicitor General (1985-1989) - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author - Trey Grayson
Kentucky Secretary of State (2004-2011) - Chuck Hagel
Secretary of Defense (2013-2015); President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (2009-2013); U.S. Senator (1997-2009) - Jane Harman
President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2011-2021); U.S. Congresswoman (1993-2011) - Wade Henderson
President, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; recipient of the Congressional Black Caucus Chair’s Award and the District of Columbia Bar’s William J. Brennan Award - Carla Hills
U.S. Trade Representative (1989-1993); Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1975-1977); Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman and CEO, Hills & Company - Jeffrey Hollender
CEO and Founder, Hollender Sustainable Brands; Co-Founder, Seventh Generation Inc.; Co-Founder, American Sustainable Business Council - Stephen Kay
Senior Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Chair (2001-2007) and Trustee, Brandeis University - Maria Teresa Kumar
Founding President and CEO, Voto Latino; Contributor, MSNBC - Mark McKinnon
Co-Founder, No Labels; Strategic Advisor to George W. Bush, John McCain, Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong and Bono; Senior Advisor, Hill + Knowlton - Admiral William Owens
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1994-1996); U.S. Navy (1962-1996) - Mike Peabody
President, Peabody Corporation; Founder, Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) - Robert Pennoyer
Of Counsel, Patterson Belknap - Trevor Potter
Commissioner (1991-1995) and Chairman (1994), Federal Election Commission; Founding President and General Counsel, Campaign Legal Center; Member, Caplin & Drysdale - Deborah Pryce
U.S. Congresswoman (1993-2009) - Arthur Rock
Venture Capitalist; Founder, Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard University; Founder, Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University - Kevin P. Ryan
Chairman and CEO, AlleyCorp; Founder and Chairman, Gilt Group; Chairman, The Business Insider; former CEO, DoubleClick - Ron Shaich
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Panera Bread; Co-Founder, Au Bon Pain Company
Advisors
- Tim Roemer
ReFormers Caucus Co-chair - Zach Wamp
ReFormers Caucus Co-chair - Bruce Patton
Senior Strategic Adviser - Trevor Potter
Senior Strategic Adviser - Jessica Kelch
Consultant, Rebuild Congress Initiative