Our Team & Leadership
Staff







Leadership & Advisory Council



Susan A. Buffett
Chairman, The Sherwood Foundation, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, and the Buffett Childhood Fund


Christopher Edley, Jr.
Co-Founder and President Emeritus, Opportunity Institute; Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Ronald Ferguson
Creator of the Tripod Project for School Improvement, Faculty Co-Chair and Director of Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard University

Bill Frist
Professor of Business and Medicine, Vanderbilt University; former Majority Leader, United States Senate

Sandra Gutierrez
National Program Director, Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors, Families in Schools

George Halvorson
Chair, California’s First 5 Commission on Children and Families, Former Chairman, Kaiser Permanente

James Heckman
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago



Joan Lombardi
Director, Early Opportunities; Senior Advisor, the Buffett Early Childhood Fund; Senior Fellow, the Bernard van Leer Foundation
Dr. Meera Mani
Vice President, Families and Communities, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation




Kris Perry
Deputy Secretary of the California Health & Human Services Agency for Early Childhood Development








Dana L. Suskind
Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago; Director, the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program; Founder and Director, the Thirty Million Words Initiative

Sara Martinez Tucker
CEO, National Math + Science Initiative; Former Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Education


Jane Waldfogel
Compton Foundation Centennial Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work
