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