Our Leadership Council represents an outstanding group of cross-sector leaders who are dedicated to our mission of making a service year a common expectation and opportunity for all young Americans.
Our Leadership Council engages influential individuals in endorsing and aiding the work of Service Year Alliance. Members are our most distinguished advisers and friends. They are invited to key stakeholder meetings, summits, and media opportunities, participate in speaking engagements, and publish opinion pieces about the power of national service.
We are recruiting Leadership Council Co-Chairs who represent the bridging, postsecondary pathways, and climate ecosystems and can serve as issue area experts and close advisers for Service Year Alliance’s work across these sectors.
More recently, we've worked to bring together a group of diverse alums to join our new Alums Committee. Our Alums Committee is a subgroup of our bipartisan and cross-sector Leadership Council consisting of select service year alums who act as advisers and thought leaders by bringing service year alum voices and perspectives to Service Year Alliance’s work. Continue scrolling below to read and learn about our new members.
Leadership Council Members
Edward Allard, III, Former Deputy Director, US Selective Service System
Kristen Soltis Anderson, Pollster, Echelon Insights
José Andrés, President/Chef, ThinkFoodGroup
Donald A. Baer, Chief Executive Officer, Burson-Marsteller
Melody Barnes, Chief Executive Officer, Melody Barnes Solutions, LLC.
Anna Burger, Former Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union
Barbara Bush, Chief Executive Officer, Global Health Corps
Jean Case, Chief Executive Officer, Case Foundation
Raymond G. Chambers, Founding Chairman, Points of Light Foundation
Emily Cherniack, Founder, New Politics
AnnMaura Connolly, President, Voices for National Service
Adam Coretz, Senior Programming Manager, NationSwell
Richard Danzig, Former Secretary of the Navy
Janine Davidson, President, Metropolitan State University of Denver and Former Under Secretary of the United States Navy
John Dilulio, Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania
Ann E. Dunwoody, General (ret.) U.S. Army
Michèle Flournoy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Center for New American Security
John D. Gardner, Lt. General (ret.) U.S. Army
Robert Gates, Former Secretary of Defense
David Gergen, Senior Political Analyst, CNN
Michael Gerson, Op-Ed Columnist, The Washington Post
Dan Glickman, Executive Director, Congressional Program Aspen Institute
Seth Goldman, Founder and TeaEO Emeritus, Honest Tea
Jennifer Granholm, Resident Fellow, Institute of Politics, University of Chicago
Devon Gray, President, End Poverty in California (EPIC)
Stephen J. Hadley, Chairman, United States Institute of Peace
Andrew Hauptman, Chairman, Andell, Inc.
Arianna Huffington, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Thrive Global
Walter Isaacson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Aspen Institute
Sebastian Junger, Journalist and Author
Dirk Kempthorne, Former Secretary of the Interior
Vanessa Kerry, CEO, Seed Global Health
Laura Lauder, General Partner, Lauder Partners, LLC
Jonathan Lavine, Co-Managing Partner, Bain Capital
Jack Lew, Former US Secretary of the Treasury
Jason Mangone, Author
Mel Martinez, Chairman, Southeast U.S. and Latin America, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Zach Maurin, Former Executive Director, Service Year Alliance
Brad Meltzer, Author
Jamie Merisotis, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumina Foundation
Jonathan Missner, Managing Partner, Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner
Michael Montelongo, President and Chief Executive Officer, GRC Advisory Services, LLC
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Artbuckle Professor of Business Administration Harvard University
Lisette Nieves, Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Director of Leadership Programs at NYU Steinhardt
Steven Olikara, Founder and President, Millenial Action Project
Deval Patrick, Former Governor of Massachusetts and Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School
W. Taylor Reveley, President of the College of William & Mary
Condoleezza Rice, Professor of Political Science Stanford University
Matt Ronen, Founder, ServiceCorps
Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Billy Shore, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Share Our Strength
Dr. Robert Simmons lll, CEO Maya Angelou Schools
Timothy Shriver, Chairman, Special Olympics
Shawn Skelly, Former Commissioner, National Commission on Military, National and Public Service
Olympia Snowe, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Barbara Stewart, Former Chief Executive Officer, AmeriCorps
Laurie M. Tisch, President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Michael Tubbs, Founder, End Poverty in California (EPIC) & Special Advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom for Economic Mobility
Elisa Villanueva Beard, CEO, Teach for America
Leadership Council Alums Committee Members
The Alums Committee of Service Year Alliance’s Leadership Council is a subgroup of our bipartisan and cross-sector Leadership Council consisting of select service year alums who act as advisers and thought leaders by bringing service year alums voices and perspectives to Service Year Alliance’s work. Here are some of our latest members:
Willie Brooks, Director of Programs, Serve Indiana
Kalan Cole, Wildland Firefighter, Forest Service
Jaynice Del Rosario, Program Officer
Nicki Fiocco, Director of Program & Communications, Transform Mid-Atlantic
Jason Hatch, Retired Army Officer
Chelsey Hudson, Program Manager
Jamier Jones, Job Developer, Career Team
Melissa Sullivan
Heather Thomson, Program Specialist
With questions, to learn more, or to join the Leadership Council, please contact Maureen Eccleston at [email protected].
