Success Stories

A Better Chance Alumni are case studies of our program's success. We have more than 13,000 Alumni who are on their way, or are currently, leaders and pioneers in their respective industries across the country and around the world. Below are the names of a select few:

Jody Armour - Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California (Lower Merion, A Better Chance, '78)

Bernard Beal -  Founder and CEO of M.R. Beal & Co., the oldest continuously operating African American-owned investment bank in the country  (Wooster School, '72)

Nadja Bellan-White - Senior Partner, Managing Director at Ogilvy and Mather (Kimball Union Academy, '85)

Rudy Bethea - Chief Business Development Officer at NestWise  (St. George's School ,'87)

Ray Blackwell, MD - First African-American cardiothoracic surgeon in Delaware (Glastonbury, A Better Chance, '76)

Torrence Boone - Managing Director, Google  (Phillips Academy, '87)

Francisco L. Borges - Chairman, CEO, and Managing Partner of Landmark Partners, Inc.  (Millbrook School ,'70)

Joy Bryant - Film Actress.  (Westminster School '92)

Paulena Cardenas, MD - Private practice - anesthesiology. (Brooks School, '92)

Judy Chambers - Managing Director, Pension Consulting Alliance.  (Dana Hall School, '88)

Tracy Chapman - Multi-platinum and multi-Grammy award winning artist.  (Wooster School, '82)

Jill Chen - Senior Program Advisor, Grameen Foundation. (Phillips Academy, '79)

Sara Clarke - Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Analysis and Communications at Showtime Networks, Inc. (Middlesex School, '85)

Trinh Du - Co-President of the Financial Market Group of Taipei Fubon Bank (Hong Kong). (Choate Rosemary Hall, '84)

Randall Dunn - First African-American  Head of the Roeper School (Bloomfield Hills, MI) (Milton Academy, '83)

Stanley Foster - Founding Partner, Hollowell, Foster and Gepp, P.C. (Northfield Mount Hermon, '71)

Dr. Beth Geter - Associate Director of Regulatory Affairs at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC (Princeton Day School, '82)

Genny Harrison - Supply Management Director for Coffee and Tea in the Coca-Cola Company's North American Division (The Lovett School, '92)

Dr. Gill Hickman - Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond (Windsor Mountain School, '65)

Dr. Bonnie Jenkins - Ambassador and Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation; U.S. Representative to the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Distruction. (The Spence School, '78)

Dr. Christopher J. Leggett - Internationally acclaimed Interventional Cardiologist (Phillips Academy,'78)

William M. Lewis, Jr - Managing Director and Co-Chairman of Investment Banking at Lazard Frères (Phillips Academy, '74)

Tim McChristian - Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Global Business Global Partner Organization of IBM (Phillips Academy, '73)

A. Louis Parker - President and COO Designee, ScanTech Holdins (Phillips Academy, '73)

Deval Patrick - First African-American Governor of Massachusetts (Milton Academy, '74)

Steven Rogers - Clinical Professor of Management and Finance at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Radnor A Better Chance, '75)

Jesse Spikes - Partner with the Atlanta law firm of Long Aldridge & Norman LLP  (Dresden A Better Chance, '68) 

Dina Strachan - Dermatologist in private practice in New York City (Hotchkiss School, '84)

Hank Torbert - Board Director of Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (The Taft School, '90)

Luis Ubiñas - President, Ford Foundation (The Collegiate School, '81)