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
Bill Burgess
General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Elaine Walsh Carney
Founding Principal of Pathfinder Philanthropy Advisors
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
Linda Douglass
Award-winning political journalist; Fmr. Director of Communications in the White House Office of Health Reform
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
Emil Hill
Executive Vice President, Public Affairs Powell Tate| Weber Shandwick
Teresa Kersten
President, Lead By Values Executive Coaching; Former VP, Consumer Marketing, LinkedIn
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.
Tavan Pechet
Principal of Pechet Advisors LLC
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
Counsel, Dentons US, LLP; Fmr. Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Tom Ridge
Emeritus Board Member
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
The Council for American Democracy
- Co-chair Bill Burgess
General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners - Co-chair Teresa Kersten
President, Lead By Values Executive Coaching; Former VP, Consumer Marketing, LinkedIn - Bill Bradley
Senator (D-NJ 1979-1997); Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC; Olympian; NBA Hall of Famer; Best-Selling Author - 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) - 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
Senior Advisor, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human 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) - 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 - Alan Simpson
Senator (R-WY 1979-1997); Senate Republican Whip (1985-1995); Chairperson, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010)
Advisors
- Tim Roemer
ReFormers Caucus Co-chair - Zach Wamp
ReFormers Caucus Co-chair