Colleen Eubanks, President 
Colleen Eubanks is the executive director of the National Child Support Enforcement Association, in Silver Spring, Md. She serves as chief staff executive for this association focused on serving the child-support enforcement community in its efforts to encourage support of children and families. Previously, Eubanks served as executive director of Christ Child Society of Washington, D.C., an organization serving the educational, emotional and material needs of at-risk children in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Ms. Eubanks directed board and affiliate relations for the Printing Industries of America, managing local affiliate offices and more than 14,000 members. She served on the American Society of Association Executives CAE Commission.  She has a B.A. degree in English literature from the University of San Diego.
Scott Maberry, Secretary
Scott Maberry is a partner in the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., focusing his law practice in the area of international trade. At Fulbright, Mr. Maberry serves as Chair of the Pro Bono Law Committee of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He also supervises the litigation training program for young Fulbright & Jaworski attorneys in the Washington office. He has published several articles and is a frequent lecturer on international law.
Mr. Maberry also chairs the American Bar Association’s Committee on Export Controls and Economic Sanctions. He holds a J.D. and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University. 
Mark Lerner, Treasurer 
Mark Lerner is Director of Medical Imaging at the George Washington University Hospital.
He has been involved in D.C.'s charter school movement for more than 10 years, serving on the boards of the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy and the William E. Doar, Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts; he was chair of the Doar board for four years.  He also was hired by Examiner.com to blog about D.C.’s charter school movement. Mr. Lerner is also a founding board member of the Charter School Management Research Initiative, a non-profit investigating best practices at charter schools across the country.    
Mr. Lerner has an AS in nuclear medicine technology from George Washington University, a BA in political science from GW, and an MPA from George Mason.  
James Denton  
Mr. Denton is the publisher/editor of World Affairs and WorldAffairsJournal.org. He previously directed Heldref Publications, a non-profit publisher of academic and scholarly journals and magazines and before that, Freedom House, founded in 1941 by Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie to promote democratic and civil society development worldwide. In a consulting capacity, he has represented Lech Walesa, and Prime Ministers Viktor Orban of Hungary and Zoran Djindjic of Serbia. He has also consulted to the OSCE, the National Democratic Institute, ABC News, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has published articles and books, and testified before Congress on various human rights and security related issues. 
 
Mr. Denton oversaw the development of the America at a Crossroads initiative at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a 20-hour PBS documentary series that explores the challenges and opportunities America faces in the wake of the September 11 attacks. After graduating from Elon College (American Literature) and various U.S. Navy training, Mr. Denton was commissioned and served as a Communications and Anti-Submarine Warfare officer on a warship and later as an instructor of Soviet submarine systems and tactics.  
 
Mr. Denton served on the board and as chairman of St. Peter's Interparish School on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. He has received awards/commendations from the President of Romania and the Prime Minister of Poland for his support of the region’s democratic transition. 
Chinesom Ejiasa
Chinesom Ejiasa is an investment funds officer at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation within its private-equity group.  He worked for four years at Clayton Fixed Income Services in the fixed-income industry, specifically dealing with asset and mortgage backed related products.
He has been involved in a number of mentoring programs over the past ten years. In 2009, he was part of a pro-bono consulting team advising Greer Elementary (Charlottesville VA) on systems and practices.   
Mr. Ejiasa graduated from The Colorado College, where he received his bachelor of arts in economics and played varsity football for four years. He holds an MBA from The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he also served as the student-body class president.
Darchelle M. Garner 
Darchelle M. Garner is a consultant to non-profit organizations in the U.S. and South Africa, providing services in organizational development, strategic and operational planning, leadership development, and crisis recovery.
Ms. Garner formerly served as vice president of Project Development at The CHEST Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American College of Chest Physicians. There she developed and managed global programming, with special focus on tobacco prevention and disparities in health care. Ms. Garner came to the Foundation from Chicago Children’s Museum, where she most recently had served as the Vice President of Education and Community Services. There she led the creation of a nationally-recognized community collaboration model and guided the development of a ground-breaking exhibit on prejudice and discrimination. Prior to her Museum tenure, Ms. Garner worked with the United Way and for several years in corporate marketing and product management. Ms. Garner serves on the Board of Directors and is Immediate Past Chairman of Shared Interest (NY). She formerly served with the Youth Job Center of Evanston (Illinois), the Chicago House of Blues Educational Foundation, and Action for Children (formerly the Day Care Action Council of Illinois).
Ms. Garner holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Brown University and an MBA in marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. 
Gwenn H.S. Gebhard 
Gwenn H.S. Gebhard is the executive director of the Luther I. Replogle Foundation, a grant-making non-profit family foundation that gives to non-profit organizations that address the needs of youth and children, and women with children living in, or at risk of, long-term poverty.
Ms. Gebhard is a graduate of Brown University, with a major in environmental science.  She has two master’s degrees from Columbia University in New York City, from the School of Public Health and from the School of International Service and Public Affairs.  She served on the board of the New York Avenue Foundation for 10 years, as president of the board from 2006 to 2008, and then treasurer in 2009.    
Jane Hall
Jane Hall is an associate professor teaching journalism and media studies at American University in Washington, D.C. She appears regularly on television and public radio and in print interviews as a moderator and commentator on politics and the media, media ethics and young people and media.  Before joining American University in 1998, Hall was a long-time media reporter and editor for national publications in New York, including nine years with the Los Angeles Times in New York.  Hall was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for her media coverage and winner of the Los Angeles Times Editor’s award and the Los Angeles Press Club award.  Hall is the moderator and executive producer of the American Forum series of of townhall specials on young people, media and politics, on campus and on WAMU, the NPR station in Washington, D.C.
Hall was a member of the LSRT governing body of Horace Mann elementary school in Washington, D.C. and has been involved in middle-school and high-school education as well as college.  She has an M.S. degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in English from the University of Texas.  
Suzanne Kimpel 
Suzanne Kimpel is a senior director of business development with the Advisory Board Company. Based in Washington DC, the Advisory Board is a provider of performance-improvement services to the health care and education sectors.  Ms. Kimpel manages a portfolio of clinical research memberships and a team of business development associates.
 Ms. Kimpel is a graduate of the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and international business with a minor in Spanish.     
Max Levasseur 
Max Levasseur is an analyst in the business transformations office at Fannie Mae.  He facilitates tactical and strategic initiatives that require IT development by acting as a bridge between technical and non-technical parties within the corporation.  He has more than a decade of experience in the IT industry as well as expertise in project and financial management. 
Mr. Levasseur has recently returned to Washington, D.C. after working in New York and New Jersey. During previous years in DC, Mr. Levasseur was active in youth development in the community, including mentoring, tutoring students in a range of academic subjects, and serving as a court-appointed special advocate in D.C.’s Volunteers for the Abused and Neglected.    
Mr. Levasseur has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. 
Nancy Poon Lue 
Nancy Poon Lue is an associate principal with The Advisory Board Company.  She leads the firm's strategic planning and new product development for its emerging education practice, The Education Advisory Board, which is already serving more than 200 higher education institutions. 
Ms. Lue is an education strategy consultant with over a decade of experience working in and with high performing organizations.   Previously, Ms. Lue served as vice president of strategic planning for EdisonLearning Inc. where she oversaw the management and operations of the company's R&D division and long-term strategic growth projects.   Ms. Lue also worked as a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting and Capgemini Inc., where she advised global corporations in the technology sector as well as a variety of education organizations, non-profits, and foundations. 
 
Ms. Lue serves on the Board of Directors for Reach for College and the Local Advisory Boards of Education Pioneers and BUILD.  Ms. Lue is a graduate of Boston Latin and graduated with high honors from Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She is an alumna of Coro Leadership New York and the Yale Women's Campaign School. 
Richard Rasmus 
Richard Rasmus is the founder and chief executive of the eRasmus Learning Group, which owns LessonPathways.com and ChoosyHomeschooler.com.  LessonPathways.com provides free K-5 curriculum and planning tools for homeschool and classroom teachers. ChoosyHomeschooler.com provides user-generated ratings and reviews of homeschooling resources.   
 
Prior to that, Rasmus was President and COO, and then CEO of K12 Inc., the nation's largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online education programs for students in kindergarten through high school. Previously, Rasmus was Sr. VP, Operations for AOL Broadband and AOL Anywhere; CEO of Flashcom, Inc., and VP, Online Services and GM, Comcast CellularOne at Comcast Corporation. 
 
Rasmus holds a BA degree from Boston University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Elise Scanlon
Elise Scanlon is counsel on the education team in the government and regulatory affairs practice group of Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP. Prior to joining Drinker, Ms. Scanlon served as the executive director of the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT) from 1999 – 2008.  As ACCSCT’s executive director, Ms. Scanlon managed an accreditation process that included more than 700 higher education institutions and served as a national voice on accreditation and for-profit higher education.  Her  practice focuses on advising colleges on policy, regulatory and operational matters.  She also advises accrediting and other non-profit organizations on governance and management issues.  Ms. Scanlon has a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Dickinson College.