Chess-in-the-Schools

Chess-in-the-Schools "is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to improving academic performance and building self-esteem among inner-city public school children."

Trustees
Accessed December 2010:


 * CHAIR EMERITUS - Lewis B. Cullman, President of Cullman Ventures LLC,
 * CHAIR - Bobbi Mark, Vice President for Development and Alumnae Affairs, Barnard College
 * VICE CHAIRS - Agnes Gund, President Emerita, Museum of Modern Art; Ward B. Chamberlin, Jr., Principal, Chamberlin Associates
 * SECRETARY - Larry E. Condon, Chairman, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
 * TREASURER - Robert L. Friedman, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group


 * David M. Danziger, Managing Member, Culbro LLC
 * Muffy Flouret, Principal, Perlbinder Realty
 * Eric Gioia, Vice President, JP Morgan Private Bank
 * Daniel J. Gross, Managing Member, M Space Holdings
 * Christopher E. Isham, Washington Bureau Chief, CBS News
 * Marley J. Kaplan, President & CEO, Chess-in-the-Schools
 * Galen D. Kirkland, Commissioner of the Division of Human Rights, State of New York
 * Justin Lubell, Senior Analyst, SAC Capital Advisors
 * Michael Margitich, Vice President of External Affairs, Museum of Modern Art
 * Robert B. Menschel, Senior Director, Goldman Sachs
 * Rona Nelson, Private investor
 * Dianne T. Renwick, Supreme Court Justice, New York State Supreme Court, Bronx County((
 * Cody Smith, former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Advisory Board
Accessed December 2010:


 * Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
 * Roy M. Goodman, Former New York State Senator, Public Advocate, City of New York
 * Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
 * Paul LeClerc, President, The New York Public Library
 * Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University
 * Arthur Levine, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
 * Robert MacNeil, Journalist
 * Frank H.T. Rhodes, President Emeritus, Cornell University
 * Charles E. Schumer, United States Senator
 * Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director, Hayden Planetarium, The Rose Center for Earth & Space

Contact
URL: http://www.chessintheschools.org