Stand for Children Leadership Center Board of Directors
Julie
Mikuta, Chair
Partner,
NewSchools Venture Fund
Julie is a Partner in the NewSchools Venture
Fund West Coast office, where she focuses on the firm’s human capital
investment strategy and management assistance.
She began her career in education teaching high school science in New
Orleans through Teach For America. Prior
to joining NewSchools, she was Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at
EdBuild, led trainings for leadership teams of large urban districts at the
Center for Reform of School Systems, and served as an elected member of the DC
Board of Education from 2001 until 2004.
Kristin
Ehrgood
Family
Foundation Manager
Kristin Ehrgood is president & founder of
Sapientis, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of
public education in Puerto Rico. She is
also the Director of the Flamboyan Foundation, a family foundation that focuses
on improving public K-12 in school time through strategic partnerships in
Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. Kristin
also founded “The Friends of Public Education,” a nonpartisan citizens group in
Puerto Rico dedicated to gathering and disseminating fact-based information to
help improve Puerto Rico’s public schools.
Previously, Kristin taught for three years in Louisiana and New Jersey
and worked on the staff of Teach for America, first as Executive Director of
their New Jersey region and then as Director of New Site Development.
Julie
Jensen
COO,
The Jenesis Group
Julie J. Jensen is the COO of The Jenesis Group,
a private family foundation bringing innovation and an entrepreneurial
philosophy to philanthropy. Jenesis works through Social Entrepreneurs to
educate and empower disadvantaged youth to become productive citizens. The
Jenesis Group includes entrepreneurial organizations such as Ashoka, Year Up,
College Summit, Sports4Kids, Latin American Youth Center and Positive Coaching
Alliance amongst its list of impressive grantees. Julie also co-founded the
Chasdrew fund, which provides pro bono technical assistance to charities.
Vanessa
Kirsch
President
& Founder, New Profit Inc.
Vanessa Kirsch is the President and Founder of
New Profit Inc., a national venture philanthropy fund that unites engaged
philanthropists with visionary social entrepreneurs to grow their social
innovations to scale. The organization provides performance-based grants,
strategic guidance, coaching, and performance management techniques to
nonprofit organizations focused on issues from early childhood literacy to
college access for low-income youth. Vanessa has more than 17 years of experience
in developing innovative solutions to social problems and is widely recognized
as a leading social entrepreneur. Prior to launching New Profit, Vanessa
founded and led two nonprofit organizations, Public Allies and the Women's
Information Network.
Jonathan
Lavine
Managing
Director, Bain Capital
Jonathan Lavine is a Managing Director at Bain
Capital, a leading global private investment firm based in Boston. Jonathan serves as the Managing Partner and
Chief Investment Officer of Sankaty Advisors, Bain Capital’s fixed income and
credit affiliate, which he founded in 1997.
He is a Trustee of Columbia University and Chair of the Columbia College
Board of Visitors, a member of the Boards of the Dana Hall School, Children’s
Hospital Trust, City Year, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Horizons for Homeless
Children and Stand for Children.
John
Legend
Entertainer
and Education Activist
John Legend is a recording artist, concert
performer and philanthropist. He has won
nine Grammy awards and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential
people. Throughout his career he has worked to make a difference in the lives
of others, and in 2007 he launched the Show Me Campaign (ShowMeCampaign.org),
an initiative that uses education to break the cycle of poverty. John sits on the Boards of The Education
Equality Project, Teach for America, Stand for Children and the Harlem Village
Academies and co-chairs the Harlem Village Academies’ National Leadership
Board.
Eliza Leighton
Public Interest Attorney
Eliza
Leighton is the co-founder of Stand for Children. In 2001, after five years of
leadership with Stand, Eliza left Stand to attend Yale Law School. Upon
graduation, she went to work for a legal services organization for Latino
immigrants in Prince George's County, Maryland. Eliza is an exceptional person
and strategic leader with an incredible commitment to Stand’s growth and
success.
Andy
Moffit
Senior
Practice Expert, McKinsey & Company
Andy Moffit is a Senior Practice Expert and
member of core leadership team for McKinsey & Company’s Global Education
Practice. Since co-founding the Global
Education Practice in 2005, Andy has worked with multiple large urban
districts, state education departments and charter management organizations to
markedly improve system performance and close achievement gaps. He co-authored
a recent book, Deliverology 101: A Field Guide for School System Leaders
(Corwin Press, 2010), which describes key success factors and steps in driving
results in global school system reforms. Before joining McKinsey, Andy was an
elementary school teacher in an inner-city school in Houston, Texas as a corps
member of Teach For America.
Reuben
Munger
Vision
Ridge Partners
Reuben Munger is Chairman of Bright Automotive,
an American company that builds on the work of a consortium of organizations to
map an automotive solution to tackle the challenges of our economy, air
pollution and diminishing oil supplies. He is a seasoned investment
professional and Managing Partner of Vision Ridge Partners, L.L.C. Prior to founding Vision Ridge in 2008, Mr.
Munger was a Managing Director at The Baupost Group, L.L.C., a $15 billion
investment firm. Vision Ridge aims to develop financially viable solutions to
the global climate crisis.