Josh Shapiro
Governor of Pennsylvania
Charles H. Ramsey
Commissioner of Police, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.
Majora Carter
Macarthur "Genius" Fellow, Real Estate Developer
Priscilla Sims Brown
President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank
Fran Dunphy
Head Men's Basketball Coach, La Salle University
Trymaine Lee
Journalist and MSNBC Correspondent
Michael A. Nutter
former Mayor of Philadelphia
Lauren Harper
Co-Founder, The Welcome Party & WelcomePAC
Kasim Reed
Attorney and former Mayor of Atlanta
Molly Baldwin
Founder and CEO, Roca
Troy Carter
Founder, chairman and CEO of Coalition Media Group
Carol Coletta
President and CEO, Memphis River Parks Partnership
Charles W. Dent
Executive Director/Vice President, Aspen Institute Congressional Program, former PA Congressman
Vilas Dhar
President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Beth Simone Noveck
Director, Burnes Center for Social Change
Damon Packwood
Creator and Executive Director, Gameheads
Ken Shropshire
Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania
Ali Velshi
MSNBC Host and Citizen Board Member
Booker Washington
CEO of Techie Homes
Dalila Wilson-Scott
Comcast Corporation and Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation
Randal Wyatt
Founder and Executive Director, Taking Ownership PDX; Co-Founder, PDX Housing Solidarity Project
Nikil Saval
Pennsylvania State Senator
Josh Shapiro
Governor of Pennsylvania
Josh Shapiro is the 48th Governor of Pennsylvania and former Chairman of the Board of Commissioners in Montgomery County and former PA Attorney General. Shapiro is known for fiscal responsibility and integrity. He worked to expose the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover up of child sexual abuse, held corrupt officials from both political parties accountable, took on both drug dealers and opioid-peddling pharmaceutical companies, and led in criminal justice and health insurance reform.
Charles H. Ramsey
Commissioner of Police, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.
Charles H. Ramsey has more than 50 years of law enforcement knowledge and service. An internationally recognized educator and innovator, he co-chaired President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing and is currently the Principal Deputy Monitor for the Federal Consent Decrees in Baltimore and Cleveland, founding partner of a police consulting firm, law enforcement analyst for CNN, and Distinguished Policy Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Majora Carter
Macarthur "Genius" Fellow, Real Estate Developer
Majora Carter is a MacArthur Fellow, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, and two-time TED speaker with eight honorary PhDs who believes low-status communities suffer under the weight of the nonprofit industrial complex and will do well to adopt a talent-retention strategy to community redevelopment. She is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, “Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one” which is also the subtitle of her bestselling book, Reclaiming Your Community.
Priscilla Sims Brown
President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank
Priscilla Sims Brown, President and CEO of Amalgamated Bank, is a multi-national board director with 30 years in financial services. Prior to her current role, Brown was Group Executive for Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Commonwealth Bank of Australia and held senior positions at AXA Financial, Inc., Sun Life Financial, and Lincoln Financial Group. She has advised several digital startups and served as the CEO of Emerge.me, a digital health insurance broker.
Fran Dunphy
Head Men's Basketball Coach, La Salle University
Fran Dunphy is the all-time winningest coach in Philadelphia Big 5 history and is in his second season as head men’s basketball coach at La Salle University.
Dunphy, a member of the Philadelphia Big 5, La Salle Athletics, Penn Athletics and Philadelphia Sports Writers Halls of Fame, has amassed nearly 600 victories over his 30 years as head coach at Penn (1989-06) and Temple (2006-19). He is the only coach to oversee multiple Big 5 men’s programs; his teams have competed in 17 NCAA Tournaments.
Trymaine Lee
Journalist and MSNBC Correspondent
Trymaine Lee is a Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning journalist and correspondent for MSNBC. As host of the Into America podcast, he explores the intersection of race, politics and justice through the lens of the Black experience in America. Lee is contributing author of The 1619 Project, has reported for The New York Times, HuffPost, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and The Philadelphia Tribune, appeared on Ebony’s “Power 100” and The Root’s “Root 100.” He is currently writing a book on race, trauma, and gun violence in America.
Michael A. Nutter
former Mayor of Philadelphia
Michael A. Nutter was two-term mayor of Philadelphia and 15-year veteran of Philadelphia City Council. Since leaving public office in 2016, he has remained active in public policy, government and civic life. Nutter is the inaugural David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and holds fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.
Lauren Harper
Co-Founder, The Welcome Party & WelcomePAC
Lauren Harper is Co-Founder of The Welcome Party and WelcomePAC, which work to grow a big-tent Democratic Party that wins by welcoming Independents and moderate Republicans into the Democratic electorate. Harper is an alumna of the University of South Carolina and lives in Austin, Texas.
Kasim Reed
Attorney and former Mayor of Atlanta
Kasim Reed served as the Mayor of Atlanta for two terms from 2010 to 2018. Reed was credited for increasing core city services while reducing municipal spending during the worst recession in 80 years. He hired more than 900 police officers, creating the largest police force in Atlanta history, oversaw a 37 percent drop in crime during his tenure, improved fire-rescue response times, and reopened all the city’s recreation centers as safe havens for young people.
Molly Baldwin
Founder and CEO, Roca
Molly Baldwin is the founder and CEO of Roca, which works to disrupt incarceration, poverty and racism among high-risk young adults. Since 1988, Baldwin and Roca have served more than 25,000 youth, relentlessly engaging with more than 1,700 young adults each year across 25 communities in Massachusetts, Hartford, CT and Baltimore, MD. Today, Roca is one of the nation’s most effective interventions for young adults at critical risk.
Troy Carter
Founder, chairman and CEO of Coalition Media Group
Troy Carter is the founder and CEO of Venice Music, a music technology company that provides SaaS and premium services for independent music artists. Previously, as founder and CEO of Atom Factory, Carter nurtured the careers of Lady Gaga, Meghan Trainor and John Legend. The West Philadelphia native was the Global Head of Creator Services at Spotify, Entertainment Advisor to the Prince Estate, and an early investor in consumer tech and CPG companies. Carter is a trustee for the Aspen Institute, Henry Crown Fellow, member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council and board member of Rock and the Roll Hall of Fame, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and SoundCloud.
Carol Coletta
President and CEO, Memphis River Parks Partnership
Carol Coletta is an esteemed creative placemaker leading the development, management and programming of six miles of riverfront and five park districts along the Mississippi River in Memphis. Coletta has served as senior fellow in the American Cities Practice at The Kresge Foundation, V.P. of Community and National Initiatives for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, leader of the two-year startup ArtPlace, and president and CEO of CEOs for Cities.
Charles W. Dent
Executive Director/Vice President, Aspen Institute Congressional Program, former PA Congressman
Former Congressman Charlie Dent is Executive Director and V.P. of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, where he leads bipartisan, bicameral policy education programs for sitting members of Congress. Dent is also a political commentator for CNN, Senior Policy Advisor to DLA Piper, and Distinguished Advisor for Pew Charitable Trusts. He represented PA’s 15th Congressional District for seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and served six years in the PA State Senate and eight in the PA House of Representatives.
Vilas Dhar
President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Vilas Dhar is a leading global voice on equity in tech and serves as President and Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. An entrepreneur, technologist and human rights advocate with a lifelong commitment to creating robust, human-centered social institutions, Dhar champions a new social compact for the digital age that prioritizes individuals and communities in the development of new products, inspires economic and social opportunity, and empowers the most vulnerable.
Beth Simone Noveck
Director, Burnes Center for Social Change
Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The GovLab. Beth’s work focuses on using AI to reimagine democracy and strengthen governance. She is the author of three books, including Solving Public Problems: How to Fix Our Government and Change Our World (named a Best Book of 2021 by Stanford Social Innovation Review). Her newest is Democracy Rebooted: Unleashing the Power of AI.
Damon Packwood
Creator and Executive Director, Gameheads
Damon Packwood is the founder and executive director of Oakland, CA-based Gameheads. Packwood pursued tech education after watching San Francisco’s working-class community disappear with the rise of the tech industry. Packwood manages the Bay Area’s video game center, a hub for game design, development, DevOps and mixed media training. His more than 25 years in youth development and education include roles at Juma Ventures, Hack the Hood and Upward Bound.
Ken Shropshire
Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania
Ken Shropshire is Senior Advisor to the Dean at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a sports industry advisor, author of 12 books, speaker, podcaster and professor. He launched and led the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University, and, in his previous 30-year career at Wharton, founded and directed the Wharton Sports Business Initiative. He is also the David W. Hauck Professor Emeritus at Wharton School, Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies and founder and leader of the Wharton Coalition on Equity and Opportunity (Wharton CEO) at Penn.
Ali Velshi
MSNBC Host and Citizen Board Member
Ali Velshi is the host of Velshi and Chief Correspondent for MSNBC and a weekly economics contributor to NPR’s Here And Now. He has covered multiple U.S. midterm and presidential elections and global news, including extensive reporting from Ukraine and Central and Eastern Europe during the Russian invasion. Velshi hosts the Velshi Banned Book Club on MSNBC and is known for interactive discussions with small groups in his series Velshi Across America. He previously worked as an anchor and correspondent for Al Jazeera America and CNN.
Booker Washington
CEO of Techie Homes
Booker Washington is a visionary real estate developer and investor. The founder of Level-Minded Capital Investments Inc. and Techie Homes Inc. is also the founder and CEO of Georgia’s South Park Cottages, the country’s first and largest Black-developed micro-community, which features sustainable smart homes. Currently developing Union Park Cottages, a micro-home community in Union City, GA, Washington plans a nationwide expansion.
Dalila Wilson-Scott
Comcast Corporation and Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation
Dalila Wilson-Scott is Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of Comcast Corporation and President of the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation. In these roles, she oversees diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and philanthropic strategy for the corporation, focusing on advancing digital equity and economic mobility through Project UP. Wilson-Scott leads Comcast’s community impact initiatives and oversees efforts to bring greater attention to the company’s philanthropic partners. Before joining Comcast, she was Head of Global Philanthropy and President of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.
Randal Wyatt
Founder and Executive Director, Taking Ownership PDX; Co-Founder, PDX Housing Solidarity Project
Randal Wyatt is the Founder and Executive Director of Taking Ownership PDX, a Portland, OR nonprofit that provides reparations to Black homeowners and small business owners. Wyatt co-founded PDX Housing Solidarity Project, a platform where privileged allies can donate funds and resources to aspiring Black and Indigenous homebuyers.
Nikil Saval
Pennsylvania State Senator
