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Board of Directors

Cindy Johanson, Marshall Turner, Kim Meredith, Micheline Chau, Kate Nyegaard, George Lucas, Stephen Arnold

(left to right) Cindy Johanson, Marshall Turner, Kim Meredith, Micheline Chau, Kate Nyegaard, George Lucas, Stephen Arnold.


  • George Lucas, Chairman
  • Stephen D. Arnold, Vice Chairman/CFO
  • Cindy Johanson, Secretary
  • Micheline Chau
  • Kim Meredith
  • Kate Nyegaard
  • Marshall Turner

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Foundation Staff

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National Advisory Council

  • Anthony Armstrong, U.S. History Teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator, Del Mar Middle School, and developer of a digital model for integrating wikis into the curriculum (Tiburon, California)
  • Craig Brandenburg, Media Production Instructor, YES Prep North Central, and Teach for America alumnus (Houston)
  • Nínive Clements Calegari, Cofounder of 826 Valencia and CEO of 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization (San Francisco)
  • Kati Delahanty, English Teacher, Charlestown High School, and mentor teacher with the Boston Teacher Residency program (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
  • Leslie Fenwick, Dean, Howard University School of Education, and former teacher and administrator at an urban school (Washington, DC)
  • Ted Hasselbring, Research Professor of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, and creator of the Read 180 reading software program (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Jason Kamras, Director of Teacher Human Capital Strategy, District of Columbia Public Schools, and 2005 National Teacher of the Year (Washington, DC)
  • Larry Leverett, Executive Director, Panasonic Foundation, and former mentor superintendent of doctoral interns in Harvard University's Urban Superintendents program (Secaucus, New Jersey)
  • Doug Martin, Graphic Design and Illustration Teacher, Mingo Career and Technical Center; former Walt Disney Imagineer (Delbarton, West Virginia)
  • Pablo Muñoz, Superintendent of Elizabeth Public Schools and graduate of the Broad Education Foundation's Superintendents Academy (Elizabeth, New Jersey)
  • Susan Patrick, President and CEO, International Association for K-12 Online Learning, and former Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education (Vienna, Virginia)
  • Kathleen Petersen, former Principal at Santa Clara Elementary School, and National Association of Elementary School Principals 2007 National Distinguished Principal (Santa Clara, Utah)
  • Will Richardson, Learner in Chief, Connective Learning, and Weblogg-ed blogger exploring the use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 education (New Jersey)


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