Opportunity Agenda

The Opportunity Agenda "was founded with the mission of building the national will to expand opportunity in America." It is a project of Tides Center.


 * Alan Jenkins (Opportunity Agenda), Executive Director, Co-Founder

Board
Accessed December 2011:


 * Timothy Wilkins, Chair of the Steering Committee
 * Bill Lann Lee, Co-Founder, Advisory Board Chair
 * Alan Jenkins, Co-Founder, Executive Director
 * Phoebe Eng, Co-Founder, Advisory Board Member
 * Brian Smedley, Co-Founder, Advisory Board Member

Steering Committee
Accessed December 2011:


 * Alan Jenkins 	 	Executive Director and Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda
 * Jeffrey H. Blattner 	 	Strategic Advisor on Law and Public Policy
 * Teresa Clarke Ellis 	 	Chairman & CEO, Africa.com LLC
 * Bill Lann Lee]] 	 	Partner, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C.; Advisory Board Chair and Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda
 * Idelisse Malavé 	 	Organizational Consultant
 * David May 	 	Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
 * Sharon Pratt 	 	Principal, Pratt Consulting
 * Timothy Wilkins]]	 	Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Founding Advisory Board
Accessed December 2011:


 * Phoebe Eng 	 	Director, Creative Counsel and Vice Chair, Ms. Foundation for Women; Co-Founder and Advisor of The Opportunity Agenda
 * Monique Harden 	 	Co-Director, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
 * Olati Johnson 	 	Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Law School
 * Ichiro Kawachi, MD, Ph.D. 	 	Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
 * Amber Khan 	 	Communications Consultant
 * Kit Laybourne 	 	Professor, Media Studies Department, The New School
 * Gay McDougall 	 	UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues
 * Marc Mauer 	 	Executive Director, The Sentencing Project
 * Steve Montiel 	 	Director, Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California
 * Michael Omi, Ph.D. 	 	Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies, University of California,  Berkeley
 * Steve Phillips 	 	President, PowerPac.org
 * Susan Butler Plum 	 	Skadden Fellowship Foundation
 * john powell 	 	Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, Ohio State University
 * Brian Smedley 	 	Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Co-Founder and Advisor, The Opportunity Agenda
 * Susan Sandler 	 	Sandler Foundation
 * Edward Telles, Ph.D. 	 	Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
 * Emily Tynes 	 	Director of Communications, American Civil Liberties Union
 * Robert West 	 	Executive Director, Working Films

Advisory Board Member Alumni

 * Jared Bernstein - Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to the Vice President
 * Tessie Guillermo - President and CEO, ZeroDivide
 * Margaret Hempel - Director, Sexuality and Reproductive Health and Rights, Ford Foundation
 * Thomas E. Perez - Secretary of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation, State of Maryland

Contact
URL: http://opportunityagenda.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * Colin Greer - board member
 * Jason Drucker, Director of Development and Operations