Our United States Program advisory panel is comprised of a group of esteemed experts from outside of the foundation who offer a wide range of experiences and perspectives. This panel plays an important role in strengthening our work by offering independent assessments of our strategies and helping us evaluate results.
Ann Fudge (Chair)
Ann Fudge served as chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands as well as chairman and CEO of its largest division, Y&R Advertising, one of the world's leading marketing and communications agencies, until 2006. Prior to that, Fudge ran a $5 billion division of Kraft Foods, overseeing some of its largest brands. Currently on the board of directors of General Electric, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Morehouse College, Fudge is also on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and a trustee of the Brookings Institution, and she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as serving on the Council's board. Among her many honors and awards, she has been named by Fortune as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business.
Henry Cisneros
Henry Cisneros is chairman and CEO of CityView, a corporation dedicated to the creation of high-quality housing for working families. Elected in 1975 to the San Antonio city council, Cisneros became the then-youngest councilperson in the city's history; he went on to become the mayor of San Antonio. Cisneros served as secretary for Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration, where he worked to assist the urban poor through fair housing policy and inner-city revitalization. After leaving public office, Cisneros was named president of Univision, the Spanish-language television network, before forming American CityVista, which became CityView. He serves on the board of the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the New America Alliance, and he is a past president of the National League of Cities, a former chairman of the National Civic League, and the current chairman of After-School All-Stars. Cisneros has earned numerous awards and honors for his public service and his efforts at providing affordable housing for families.
Christopher Edley
Christopher Edley is dean of Boalt School of Law at the University of California–Berkeley, having joined Boalt after twenty-three years as a professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is a renowned expert in the field of civil rights law. His publications include, among many others, Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values, and he is a founder of UC–Berkeley's Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, a multidisciplinary think tank. In addition to helping formulate domestic policy in the Carter Administration, Edley was associate director for economics and government at the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton Administration as well as an advisor for Clinton's Initiative on Race. Edley has served on a number of national commissions, including the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and most recently on the nonpartisan Commission on No Child Left Behind. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Edward Glaeser
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught urban and social economics and microeconomic theory since 1992. Glaeser is also director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He has published dozens of papers on cities and economic growth, including papers on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers for the transmission of ideas. In addition to his teaching and research, Glaeser edits the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Glaeser's work examining the historical evolution of economic hubs like Boston and New York City has had a major influence on the study of both economics and urban geography. Other topics on which he has written widely, from both contemporary and historical perspectives, include social economics and the economics of religion.
Walter Massey
Walter Massey is President Emeritus of Morehouse College. Trained as a physicist, Massey has had a long career as an educator and researcher at Brown University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois, among other institutions. Prior to his presidency at Morehouse, Massey was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs in the University of California system. Massey served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as director of the National Science Foundation, as director of the Argonne National Laboratory, and on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology for both President George H. W. Bush and President George W. Bush. Massey has been granted more than thirty honorary degrees from universities and colleges throughout the nation and has received many honors and awards worldwide. He serves on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards, including the boards of the Bank of America and McDonald's, the University of Chicago, the Mellon Foundation, the Argonne National Laboratory, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, and he is chairman of the Salzburg Global Seminar.