John Joseph DeGioia is an American academic administrator and philosopher who has been the president of Georgetown University since 2001. He is the first lay president of the school and is currently its longest-serving president. Upon his appointment,he also became the first lay president of any Jesuit university in the United States. Having spent his entire career at Georgetown,where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees,DeGioia was the dean of student affairs and held various vice presidential positions before becoming president.
Joan Buckler Claybrook is an American lawyer and lobbyist who was president of Public Citizen from 1982 to 2009. She also served in the Carter administration as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) from 1977 to 1981.
Trinity Washington University is a private Catholic university in Washington,D.C. The university was founded as Trinity College by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as the nation's first Catholic liberal arts college for women. Trinity was chartered by an Act of Congress on August 20,1897. It became Trinity Washington University in 2004.
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an American author,educator,sociologist,speaker,Black liberation activist,and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
Sherrie Rollins Westin is an American businesswoman. She is the president of Sesame Workshop,the nonprofit educational organization that produces the television series Sesame Street.
Joyce Ann Ladner is an American civil rights activist,author,civil servant,and sociologist.
Jane Dammen McAuliffe is an American educator,scholar of Islam and the inaugural director of national and international outreach at the Library of Congress. She is a president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College and former dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University. As a specialist in the Qur'an and its interpretation,McAuliffe has edited the six-volume Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān and continues to lead the editorial team for the online edition of the work.
Anne deHayden Neal is the former president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA),a non-profit organization with a stated mission of advancing academic quality,accountability and affordability at colleges and universities in the United States.
Farah Pandith is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The position was made specifically for her after she briefed Secretary Clinton about her work in the Bush Administration. She had the rare distinction of being a political appointee for two Republican presidents and President Obama. When she was the Special Representative she traveled to almost 100 countries. After serving under both Secretaries Clinton and John Kerry,she left government. She said she came to Washington after 9/11 again and wanted to serve –she left after more than a decade in public service. She worked at USAID and then went to the National Security Council and then the U.S. Department of State. When she left in 2014,she returned to her home state of Massachusetts.
Lynn C. Pasquerella is an American academic and the 14th president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Before she assumed this position,she was the 17th president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley,Massachusetts,serving from 2010 to 2016. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island for 19 years before becoming URI's Associate Dean of the Graduate School. From 2006 to 2008 she was vice provost for research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Rhode Island. She was the Provost of the University of Hartford from 2008-10. She also currently serves as the President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Michelle Asha Cooper is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs and Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education. She previously served as president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP),a Washington,D.C.-based independent,non-profit organization.
DeRionne P. Pollard is the President of Nevada State College. She previously served as the President of Montgomery College from 2012 to 2021.
EduCap is an American private non-profit education finance company that was established in 1987. The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation is the philanthropic affiliate of EduCap Inc.
Judith L. Lichtman is an American attorney specializing in women's rights and an advocate for human and civil rights. Lichtman currently serves as the senior advisor of the National Partnership for Women &Families. She is largely credited with the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Alexandra (Alex) Armstrong is the chairwoman and founder of Armstrong,Fleming,&Moore. Armstrong was the first person to earn the Certified Financial Planner certification in Washington,D.C.
Jamienne S. Studley is the president and CEO of the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC),a regional accrediting agency serving a diverse membership of public and private higher education institutions throughout California,Hawaii,and the Pacific,as well as a limited number of institutions outside the U.S.
Lois Ann Dickson Fitt Rice was an American corporate executive,scholar,and education policy expert. Known as the ‘‘mother of the Pell Grant”because of her work lobbying for its creation,she was national vice president of the College Board from 1973 until 1981. According to the Wall Street Journal,she was “among the first wave of African-American women serving on boards of major US corporations,”and under president Bill Clinton,she was a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. For years,she was an economic studies expert at the Brookings Institution concentrating on education policy.
Flaxie Madison Pinkett was an African American philanthropist and businesswoman based in the United States. She received a Candace Award in 1982 from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.
Ella Loraine Dorsey was an American author,journalist,and translator. She contributed articles to magazines and wrote many stories,among them Midshipman Bob,Jet,the War Mule,The Taming of Polly,The Children of Avalon,The Jose Maria,The Two Tramps,Saxty's Angel,Pickle and Pepper,The End of the White Man's Trail,and Pocahontas.
