Board of Advisors
Chairman
The Honorable Chet Edwards*
(D-TX 17)
Special Counsel
The Honorable Robert Dole
Alston & Bird LLP
Youth Council
Eric Toy*
Warren County Republican
Central Committee
Colleges and Universities
Dr. E. Bruce Heilman
Chancellor, University of Richmond
Jose Jaime Rivera
President, The University of the Sacred Heart of Puerto Rico
Youth and Eucation
Dr. Larry J. Sabato
Director, The Center for Politics at UVA
Youth and Education
David Hawkins
Director of Public Policy
National Association for College Admissions Counseling
Mark Cannon
Executive Director
National Association of Charter School Authorizers
Maureen B. Costello
Director, Newsweek Education Newsweek Magazine
Maudelle Driskell
National Society of High School Scholars
Roberts T. Jones
Executive Vice President
National Alliance of Business
Rocco Marano
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Director of Student Activities
Hugh O’Brian
Founder, Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership
J. Neil Shorthouse
Co-founder, National Communities in Schools
Reg Weaver
President
National Education Association
International
Dr. Carol Allais
Department of Sociology Head
University of South Africa
Clare Baxter
Director of Forum Programs
Forum for Young Canadians
Tsung-lin, Ronald Li
Society for International Trade and Economic Affairs, Taiwan
Mark A. Meyer
Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce
Herzfeld & Rubin PC
Akio Nakajima
President, Japan Educational Exchange - Baba Foundation
Rtn. PHF. Ananda Rajapakse
CEO, Orange Lighting Solutions Ltd.
Media
Charles Cook
Editor & Publisher, The Cook Political Report
Noel Epstein
Former Director, Washington Post Books
Michael Keefe
Editorial Cartoonist
Depixion Studios, Inc.
Cokie Roberts
ABCNEWS Chief Congressional Analyst
Pete Williams
NBC News Legal Correspondent
Private Sector
Sandra R. Dust
Manager, Education Initiatives
The Dow Chemical Company
Roberto C. Rodríguez
Poventud, Esq.
Bobonis, Bobonis & Rodríguez Poventud
Kenneth Vonderahe
President, Fidelity Capital
Ronya Kozmetsky
Co-Founder, RGK Foundation
United States House of Representatives – Democrats
The Honorable Steny Hoyer
Minority Whip (D-MD 5)
The Honorable Julia Carson
(D-IN 7)
The Honorable Norman Dicks
(D-WA 6)
The Honorable Sam Farr
(D-CA 17)
The Honorable John Lewis
(D-GA 5)
The Honorable Doris Matsui
(D-CA 5)
The Honorable Carolyn McCarthy
(D-NY 4)
The Honorable Gregory Meeks
(D-NY 6)
The Honorable Grace F. Napolitano
(D-CA 38)
The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
(D-DC At-Large)
The Honorable Donald Payne
(D-NY 10)
The Honorable David E. Price
(D-NC 4)
The Honorable Silvestre Reyes
(D-TX 16)
United States House of Representatives – Republicans
The Honorable J. Dennis Hastert
Speaker of the House
(R-IL 14)
The Honorable Roy Blunt
Majority Whip
(R-MO 7)
The Honorable Richard Baker
(R-LA 6)
The Honorable Judy Biggert
(R-IL 13)
The Honorable Dave Camp
(R-MI 4)
The Honorable Thomas Davis
(R-VA 11)
The Honorable Lincoln Diaz-Balart
(R-FL 21)
The Honorable John J. Duncan, Jr.
(R-TN 2)
The Honorable Jo Ann Emerson
(R-MO 8)
The Honorable Joel Hefley
(R-CO 5)
The Honorable Wally Herger
(R-CA 2)
The Honorable Mike Oxley
(R-OH 4)
The Honorable Chris Shays
(R-CT 4)
United States Senate – Democrats
The Honorable Max Baucus
(D-MT)
The Honorable Thomas Carper
(D-DE)
The Honorable Byron Dorgan
(D-ND)
The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA)
The Honorable Bill Nelson
(D-FL)
The Honorable Jack Reed
(D-RI)
United States Senate – Republicans
The Honorable Jim DeMint
(R-SC)
The Honorable Bill Frist
Senate Majority Leader, (R-TN)
The Honorable Jon Kyl
(R-AZ)
The Honorable Trent Lott
(R-MS)
The Honorable Olympia Snowe
(R-ME)
The Honorable Arlen Specter
(R-PA)
The Honorable Craig Thomas
(R-WY)
The Honorable John Warner
(R-VA)
Washington Community
The Honorable Howard Dean, M.D.
Chairman, Democratic National Committee
Craig Fuller
President & CEO
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
The Honorable Asa Hutchinson
Venable LLP
The Honorable Chris John*
Federalist Group LLC
Daphne Kwok*
Executive Director
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies
Ambassador Charles T. Manatt
Manatt-Jones Global Strategies
Sue Gin McGowan
President, William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc.
Ken Mehlman
Chairman
Republican National Committee
Jerry Moore, Ph.D
Special Liaison to the
University of Virginia
Professor Emeritus of Social Studies, UVA
Norman Jay Ornstein
Political Scientist, American Enterprise Institute fosr Public Policy Research
The Honorable Ron Sarasin
President
Capitol Historical Society
Max Stier
President/CEO, Partnership for Public Service