Board of Directors


To ensure the Foundation’s policies and practices best represent the interests of its educational beneficiaries, the Foundation specifies in its Articles of Organization that a majority of its Board of Directors must be representatives of organizations eligible for Foundation support. The majority of the Board of Directors, then, is comprised of individuals who serve, or have served, as directors, officers, key employees, or in leadership roles in organizations that fall within the Foundation’s defined class of charitable beneficiaries. In addition, all members of the Foundation’s Governance Committee, which nominates new board members, are representatives of educational organizations.

Current members of the Board of Directors are as follows:

Lawrence O'Toole, Chair , President and CEO of Aurora Consulting Group, LLC

Peter Blampied, Past Chair , Corcoran Management Company, Inc. Retired President

Henry Bourgeois , Executive Director Maine Compact for Higher Education

Yoel Camayd-Freixas , Professor & Chair, PhD Program in Policy School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University

James Comer , Professor Yale University Child Study Center

Karen Hammond , Managing Director at Devonshire Investors

Diana Lam , Vice President, Global Education and Community Outreach Christel House International

James MacAllen , Investment Executive (retired)

Margarita Muñiz , Principal Rafael Hernandez School

Janet Phlegar , Director WestEd’s Learning Innovations Program

Jeanne Shaheen , Governor State of New Hampshire (1997-2003)

Rogeriee Thompson , Associate Justice Superior Court State of Rhode Island

William E. Trueheart , Pittsburgh Foundation Retired President and CEO

Dudley Williams Vice Chair , Manager, District Education Strategy Relations GE Equipment Services

David S. Wolk , President Castleton State College

Emeriti Directors
Lauro Cavazos
Richard Dooley
Kay Hanson
John Hoy
Alice Jelin Isenberg
John Ryan (Deceased)
Arthur White