Advisory Council
Hazel Carby, Chair
Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director, Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization, Yale University
Dennis Brownlee '74
Vice President and Managing Director of Urban Sales and Marketing, Premiere Radio Networks
Theodore Cross
Editor and Publisher, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Badi Foster '74
President, Phelps-Stokes Fund
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of African and African American Studies, and Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Bridgette Heller
Global President, Johnson & Johnson Baby, Kids and Wound Care Franchise
Brent Henry '69
Vice President and General Counsel, Partners HealthCare System
Richard Hope
Vice President and Director, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Randall Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan P94, P98
Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies; Dean of the Graduate Division, UCLA
Phylicia Rashad
Award winning actor
Chocolate Swan, Inc.
Victoria Rowell
President, Days Ferry Productions
New York Times bestselling author, award winning actress and lecturer
Ruth Simmons (Honorary)
President, Brown University
Teresa Taylor Williams P09
CEO, TTW Associates, Inc.; Owner and Publisher, the New York Trend
Adrien Wing '78
Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Iowa Law School