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National Advisory Board

The Insight Center has empaneled a blue ribbon National Advisory Board comprised of business, media and policy leaders to help the center establish its next stage priorities and enhance the organization’s visibility and reach across the national field. Former HUD secretary Henry G. Cisneros chairs this board.


Henry Cisneros

Henry G. Cisneros

Chairman

In 1981, Mr. Cisneros became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. He was subsequently elected to four terms. In 1992, President Clinton appointed Mr. Cisneros to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD").


Albert F. Moreno

Albert F. Moreno

Alfred F. Moreno served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Levi Strauss & Co. from 1996 to November 2005. He joined Levi Strauss & Co. in 1978 where he was responsible for LS&CO.'s legal and brand protection affairs and oversees the LS&CO.'s global security department.

Carla Javits

Carla Javits

Carla Javits is the President of REDF (also known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) which provides equity-like investments and business assistance to create and grow ‘double bottom line’, non-profit run social enterprises that create jobs as a means to ending cycles of unemployment, homelessness, and incarceration by employing people who face high barriers.

Gloria Castillo

Gloria Castillo is president and CEO of Chicago United, a corporate membership organization that promotes multiracial leadership in business to advance parity in economic opportunity.

Ivye L. Allen

Ivye L. Allen

Ivye L. Allen, President/CEO of Foundation for the Mid South, understands that no one organization or sector can singlehandedly improve the social and economic conditions in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The Foundation leads efforts to increase capacity and civic engagement as well to improve racial, social, and economic outcomes throughout the Mid South.

Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team.

John Foster-Bey

John Foster-Bey

John Foster-Bey is President and CEO at CSR, Inc., a leading provider of professional and technical services to government, private, and nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Dr. Foster-Bey has more than 30 years of experience in program evaluation, performance measurement, research studies, and quantitative analysis.

John Morning

John Morning

John Morning has been President of John Morning Design, Inc., a graphic design firm since 1960. Mr. Morning served as Chairman of Henry Street Settlement and serves as its Director. He is a Trustee of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and serves as a Director of the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.

Linda Smith Lowe

Linda Smith Lowe

Linda Smith Lowe is a public policy advocate specializing in health issues at Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP). A former health planner, Linda has worked for over 30 years (now part-time) as the Health Policy Specialist for Georgia Legal Services Program focusing on Medicaid and other health programs and issues for low-income Georgians.

Michael Petro

Michael Petro

Michael Petro is the Vice President, Director of Business and Government Policy, and Chief of Staff for the Committee for Economic Development (CED). In this capacity, Michael is responsible for connecting CED's policy projects and activities to the business community, government officials, and members of the media.

Richard Woo

Richard Woo

Richard Woo is the CEO of The Russell Family Foundation. He has experience in global philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. Before joining The Russell Family Foundation in 2000, he worked for nearly twelve years at Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco in community relations, corporate social responsibility and philanthropy.

Rob McKay

Rob McKay

Rob McKay is the Chairman of the Board of the Democracy Alliance and President of the McKay Family Foundation, which supports community-based organizations working for long-term social, political, and economic progress. Rob, along with his brother and parents, established the McKay Foundation in January 1992.

Unmi Song

Unmi Song

Unmi Song is President of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, a private foundation that awards $8 million in grants annually to nonprofits serving low-income communities in Chicago with a focus on arts education, education, employment and health. She also serves on the board of directors at the Alliance for the Great Lakes.