President and Board of Directors

Desmond K. Blackburn, PhD
President and CEO

Jill Garling
Board Chair

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Board of Scholars Chair

Abdullah T. Antepli
Senior Fellow of Jewish-Muslim Relations & Co-Director, Muslim Leadership Initiative, Shalom Hartman Institute; Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy and of the Practice of Interfaith Relations at Divinity School, Duke University; Member, Governance Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Paul H. Berz
Retired Chair, Highland Capital Management; Advisor Emeritus, Boston Symphony Orchestra; Co-Chair, Memphis Benefit (1997, 1998, 2002), Former Chair, Memphis Advisory Board, & Member, Audit and Development Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Jeffrey J. Bussgang
General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners; Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School 

Caretha Coleman
Principal, Coleman Consulting; Board Member, The RealReal; Founding Member, The Angels Forum; Co-Founder & Board Member, Black Directors Health Equity Agenda; Chair, The Leverage Network; Board Member, Accion Opportunity Fund; Member, Governance and DEI Task Force Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Edda Collins Coleman
Principal, Axiom Advisors; Co-Founder, The All In Together Campaign; Board Director, Bipartisan Policy Center; Chair, San Francisco Advisory Board and member, Governance Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Lisa Conn
Co-Founder & COO, Gatheround; Chair, Los Angeles Advisory Board, Facing History & Ourselves

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
Founder & CEO, Decisive; Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School 

Debra Engel
Former Senior Vice President of Corporate Service, 3Com; Board Member, Accion Opportunity Fund; Leadership Council, YWCA; Member, San Francisco Bay Area Advisory Board & Member, Governance, DEI Task Force, and Development Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Lori R. Fife
Retired Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP; Member, Trustees' Council of Penn Women & Board Member, Penn Hillel, University of Pennsylvania; Member, Next Generation Council, USC Shoah Foundation; Co-Chair, Funding Committee, UJA Federation of New York; Chair, New York Advisory Board, Co-Chair, New York Benefit (1996, 2014), & Member, Executive and Development Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Mark S. Fife
Retired Founder, MSF Capital, LLC; Member, New York Advisory Board, Facing History & Ourselves

Wendy Fischman
Research Director, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Vice President, Board of Trustees, Beaver Country Day School; Chair, New England Advisory Board & Member, Development Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Cristina S. Fockler
Board Member, Circuit Playhouse; Board Member, St. Mary’s Episcopal School; Former Chair, Memphis Advisory Board, Co-Chair, Memphis Benefit (2010, 2013), Chair, Governance Committee, & Member, Executive Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Kristyn Friske
Leadership Team Member, HEROS; Board Member, Merillac St. Vincent Family Services; Member, Impact100 Metro Denver; Member, Compass Pro Bono Chicago; Chair, Chicago Advisory Board, Facing History & Ourselves

Andrew S. Janower
Managing Director, Charlesbank Capital Partners; Member, Board of Trustees, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Co-Founder, Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytoma Foundation; Chair, Compensation Committee & Member, Executive Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Dr. Carol Johnson-Dean
Member, Board of Trustees, City Year; Fellow, 2014 Cohort, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative; Member, Memphis Teacher Residency Advisory Board; Board Member, Memphis Symphony Orchestra; Member, Board of Trustees, First 8 Memphis; Member, Memphis Advisory Board, Facing History & Ourselves

Jill Ellen Karp
Vice Chair, Nantucket Film Festival; Board Member, Nantucket Book Festival; Board Member, Boston Youth Sanctuary; Member, Advisory Board, Ploughshares at Emerson College; Founding Member, The Nantucket Project; Member, New England Advisory Board, Co-Chair, New England Benefit (2006) & Member, Development Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Daniel S. Katz
Former Co-Manager, Apex Capital; Member, San Francisco Bay Area Advisory Board & Member, Finance Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Eunice Lee
Senior Vice President & COO of Studio Operations, Call of Duty Development, Activision; Member, Los Angeles Advisory Board, Facing History & Ourselves

Julie Abrams Leff
Board Member, Ramapo for Children; Board Member, New York City Center; Former Chair, Board of Directors; Chair, Leadership Council; & Member, Executive, Governance, DEI Task Force, Development, and Compensation Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Emily Leventhal
Co-Founder, Ebbets Field Capital LLC; Board Member, Combined Jewish Philanthropies; Member, New England Advisory Board, Chair, Finance Committee, & Member, Executive, Audit, and Development Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Joshua Lipman
Co-Founder, LIFT Insight and Capital Partners; Chair, Southeast Advisory Board, Facing History & Ourselves

Richard I. Melvoin
Retired Head of School, Belmont Hill School; Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Managing Partner, Strategic School Leadership; Member, Executive, DEI Task Force, and Compensation Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Saul Pannell
Retired Partner, Wellington Management Company; Vice Chair, Marine Biological Laboratory; Board Member, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston; Board Member, Analysis Group; Co-Chair, New England Benefit (2014) & Chair, Audit Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Deborah L. Plummer
Principal Consultant, D.L. Plummer & Associates; Board Member, Grub Street Center for Creative Writing; Board Member, Positive Education Program; Board Member, Reflection Point; Board Member, Nana’s Tribe Foundation; Member, DEI Task Force & Development Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

Thomas J. Phillips
Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP; Amicus Brief Subcommittee Member, Boston Chapter of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association

Fernando M. Reimers
Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education & Director, Global Education Innovation Initiative and International Education Policy Masters Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Member, Executive Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Susie Richardson
Member, San Francisco Bay Area Advisory Board & Development Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Shelly Saltzman
Founder, Citizens Leadership Middle Schools; Board Member, Teach for America - Ohio; Editor, The Borgen Project; Cofounder and Coalition Member, Honesty for Ohio Education; Chair, Cleveland Advisory Board, Facing History & Ourselves

Rachel Schwartz
President, RCB Capital Corporation; Chair, Canada Board of Directors, Facing History & Ourselves

Stacy Sharpe
Senior Vice President, Corporate Brand, The Allstate Corporation; Board Member, Chicago Urban League; Member, Board of Trustees, Arthur W. Page Society; Chair, Chicago Advisory Board & Member, Executive and DEI Task Force Committees, Facing History & Ourselves

MyKhanh Shelton
Board Member, Promax; Advisory Board Member, UCLA School of Theater Film and Television’s Master of Media Transformation Analysis; Member, Los Angeles Advisory Board & Chair, Development Committee & Member, Executive Committee, Facing History & Ourselves

Marcus L. Smith
Retired Manager, MFS Investment Management; Board Member, MSCI Inc.; Board Member, First Industrial Realty Trust; Member, Board of Trustees, Core Knowledge Foundation; Member, Advisory Council on Education, Harvard Medical School; Member, Finance Committee, Facing History & Ourselves 

Judy Wise
Board Member, Restore Justice Illinois; Board Member, Chicago Media Project; Chair, Mother Jones Magazine; Founder, London Office, Co-Founder, Chicago Office & Member, Development Committee, Facing History & Ourselves 

Alan Yang
CEO and Senior Managing Director, GCP; Chairman, Global Investment Committee, GLP

Effective as of October 11, 2023