Leadership Council

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.

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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.

 

Steven Barney, Former Commissioner, National Commission on Military, National and Public Service 

 

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

 

Mark Gearan, Director of the Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

 

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 

 

Debra Wada, Former Vice Chair for Military Service, National Commission on Military, National and Public Service

 

Aaron Williams, Former Director of the Peace Corps

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 alumni 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 Aly Ferguson at [email protected].



 

 

 

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