Advisory Committee

  • Kenneth Bacon - President, Refugees International; former Pentagon Spokesperson; editorial columnist at The Wall Street Journal

  • Max Bazerman - Professor, Harvard Business School; honorary doctorate,
    University of London; author, including, “Negotiation Genius”

  • Julie Belaga - former Chief Operating Officer, the Export-Import Bank; Chair, Connecticut League of Conservation Voters

  • Frank Carlucci - former Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the CIA; currently Chair Emeritus, the Carlyle Group

  • Donald K. Clifford, Jr - former Partner, McKinsey & Co.; President, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks; Honorary Trustee, American Museum of Natural History

  • T.J. Dermot Dunphy - former Chair and CEO, Sealed Air Corporation; currently Chair, Kildare Enterprises, LLC; Cofounder of the Volunteer Consulting Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners

  • Douglas I. Foy - President of DIF Enterprises; served as Massachusetts’ Governor Romney’s Secretary of Development; President of the Conservation Law Foundation; recipient of the President's Environmental and Conservation Challenge Award

  • Anthony Grassi - former Chair, The Nature Conservancy; retired Managing Director CS First Boston

  • Wade Henderson - President of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; former Washington Bureau Director of the NAACP; recipient of the Congressional Black Caucus Chair’s Award and the District of Columbia Bar’s William J. Brennan Award

  • Jack Herney - History Instructor, former Dean of Faculty, Phillips Exeter Academy; Board Member, New Hampshire Humanities Council

  • Gary Hirshberg- President, Stonyfield Farm; former Executive Director, the New Alchemy Institute; former Co-Chair, the Social Venture Network; former Business NH Magazine’s Business Leader of the Year

  • Phil Hoff - former Governor of Vermont, former President of the Board of Trustees, Vermont Law School

  • Jeffrey Hollender - President, Seventh Generation Inc.; Board Member, Greenpeace International

  • Bill Hudnut - former Mayor of Indianapolis; President of the National League of Cities; member of Congress and clergyman; author, including “The Minister Mayor”; currently Senior Resident Fellow for Public Policy at the Urban Land Institute

  • Stephen Kay - Senior Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Vice-Chair, Boston Symphony Orchestra; former Chair of the Board of Trustees, Brandeis University; member of the Board of Overseers, Harvard University

  • Madeleine Kunin - former Governor of Vermont; Deputy Secretary of Education; and Ambassador to Switzerland

  • Paul Lawrence- retired Professor, Harvard Business School; author, including, “Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices”

  • Barbara Lawton - Lt. Governor of Wisconsin; leader of Wisconsin Women=Prosperity; founder of the Educational Resource Foundation and the Greater Green Bay Area Community Foundation

  • Alonzo McDonald - former Assistant to the President and White House Staff Director, Acting Special Trade Representative, Managing Director, McKinsey & Co.; Founding Chair, The Trinity Forum

  • Jeffrey A. Modisett – former Attorney General of Indiana; former CEO and General Counsel, TechNet; Managing Partner, Bryan Cave, Los Angeles

  • Peter G. Peterson - Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group; President, The Concord Coalition; Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon administration; former Chair, The Council on Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

  • James Brian Quinn - retired Professor, Tuck School of Business; author, including “Intelligent Enterprise”

  • Sandra Swan - President Emerita, Episcopal Relief and Development; former President, Junior League of New York

  • Thomas Vilsack – former Governor of Iowa; former chair of the Midwest Governor’s Conference; Board Member, Carnegie Learning, Inc.

  • Roger Wilkins - Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University; former Assistant Attorney General; Board Member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; editorial board member The New York Times; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism

  • Timothy E. Wirth - former United States Senator from Colorado; former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; current President, the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund