Board of Directors & Officers
Christopher Phillips, PhD, Founder/Executive Director
Cecilia Chapa Phillips, MEd, Secretary/Treasurer
James M. Burke, PhD, Director, Performance Management Group, Virginia Commonwealth University
Linda Pierce, MBA, Performance Management Group, Virginia Commonwealth University
Advisory Board
Honorary Board Member, Dr. Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University
Anthoula Katsimatides, actor, board member of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum
Andrew Murphy, Dept. of Political Science, Rutgers University
Shirley Strum Kenny, PhD, Retired President, Stony Brook University
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law and Leadership, Pro-Democracy Activist, Harvard Law School
Ralph Lewin, Executive Director, Peter E. Haas Junior Family Fund, Former Executive Director, Mechanics’ Institute, Past President and CEO, Cal Humanities
Thaddeus Russell, PhD, historian, scholar, essayist, author of ‘A Renegade History of the United States’
Odin Hartshorn Halvorson — writer, filmmaker, philosopher, geek
Charles Massiatte, BA, cum laude, Harvard University, School of Extension Studies; Founder, Young Scholars of Texas, Associate, Martin Capital Advisors (MartinCapital.com)
Omar Akhil, Founder of Brainiac, Owner of Vaulkshire Investment Advisors
Brian Austin, Captain of Investigative Services Section and Deputy SWAT Commander, Founder of Cops for Labor, Madison, WI
Stewart Harris, Professor of Law, Host, ‘Your Weekly Constitutional’
David Blacker, PhD, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies, University of Delaware
Stephen Duncombe, PhD, Professor, Gallatin School and Dept. of Media, Culture and Communications, NYU