Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies "is one of the nation's premier research and public policy institutions and the only one whose work focuses exclusively on issues of particular concern to African Americans and other people of color. For over three decades, our research and information programs have informed and influenced public opinion and national policy to benefit not only African Americans, but every American."

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Board of Governors
Accessed August 2008:


 * Chair - Joyce London Alexander - U.S. Magistrate Judge, United States District Court of Massachusetts
 * Vice Chair - William E. Kennard - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
 * Vice Chair - Roderick D. Gillum - Vice President, Corporate Responsibility & Diversity, General Motors Corporation
 * Secretary - Jacqulyn C. Shropshire - President/Owner, Momentum Unlimited
 * Treasurer - Larry D. Bailey - President, LDB Consulting, Inc.
 * President - Ralph B. Everett - President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
 * Dwight L. Bush - Managing Director - D.L. Bush & Associates
 * David C. Chavern - Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President United States Chamber of Commerce
 * Sanford Cloud, Jr. - Chairman and CEO, The Cloud Company, LLC
 * John W. Franklin - Program Manager, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
 * Robert L. Mallett - Senior Vice President, Global Stakeholder Alliances, Philanthrophy & Corporate Citizenship, Pfizer, Inc. and President of The Pfizer Foundation
 * Cynthia G. Marshall - President, AT&T North Carolina
 * William F. McSweeny
 * Dianne Pinderhughes - Professor, Africana Studies and Political Science, Presidential Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame
 * Marva Smalls - Executive Vice President for Public Affairs and Chief of Staff, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, TV Land and Noggin
 * Susan L. Taylor - Editor Emerita, Essence Magazine, Founder, National Cares Mentoring Movement
 * Reed V. Tuckson - Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group
 * Paul R. Webber, 3rd - Senior Judge, D.C. Superior Court
 * Cynthia M. Bodrick - Assistant Secretary of the Corporation

Members Emeriti

 * William B. Boyd - President Emeritus, The Johnson Foundation
 * Eddie N. Williams - President Emeritus, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
 * James D. Wolfensohn - President and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company, LLC

Founders

 * Kenneth B. Clark - Served from 1970 to 2005
 * Louis E. Martin - Served from 1970 to 1997

Contact

 * Web: http://www.jointcenter.org

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