Leadership
Our work simply wouldn't be possible without the above-and-beyond efforts of our incredibly hard-working volunteer Board and our small but mighty team of employees.
NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CHAIR
Theo Killion
Retired Chief Executive Officer, Zale Corporation
The Hill School, 1970*
Vice Chair
A. Louis Parker
Retired Corporate Vice President, General Electric
Philips Academy, Class of 1973*
BOARD MEMBERS AT LARGE
Maly H. Bernstein
Vice President, Digital & Omni-Channel, CVS Health
Keith Evans
President, The Westminster School
Ekene Ezulike
Global Head of Corporate Services, Morgan Stanley
Tayo Famakinwa
Managing Director, Teneo
Darrell Ford
Chief Human Resources Officer, UPS
Rob Fullerton
Global Head of Leveraged Finance, Jeffries
Roxane Gay
Writer/Associate Professor
Phillips Exeter Academy, 1992*
Michelle Gittens
Director of US Transactional Video on Demand, Amazon
Phillips Academy Andover, 1999*
Gennell Jefferson
Managing Director, State Street Global Advisors
Gerald Keefe
Head of Global Banking for the Americas, HSBC
Tracey Koziol
Senior Vice President, Global Offerings, Xerox
Allison Lawrence
Chief Of Staff, Stanley Black & Decker
Sheila Marmon
Founder & CEO, Mirror Digital
Cate School, 1990*
Star McDade
Chief Audit Executive, Jones Lang Lasalle
Nicole Melwood
Director, Commonfund Asset Management
Northfield Mount Hermon School, 2001*
Suzan Morno-Wade
Executive Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, Xerox
Francisco Tezén
President & Chief Executive Officer
Rhonda Trotter
Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP
The Hotchkiss School, 1979*
Kurt Van Wagenen
President & CEO, FirstLight Fiber
BOARD EMERITUS
Peter Allan Atkins
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP
NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
The National Advisory Council is a group of professionals under 40 dedicated to helping A Better Chance carry out its mission to increase substantially the number of well-educated young people of color who are capable of assuming positions of responsibility and leadership in American society. Founded in 2009, the goal of the Council is to initiate and boost engagement for A Better Chance through a combination of fundraising and volunteer efforts. Each year the Council hosts The Rising Stars Awards to celebrate the accomplishments of rising professionals of color.
For information on joining the National Advisory Council, please contact Nicole Bouknight Johnson, National Director of Development and Communications, at nbjohnson@abetterchance.org or 646-346-1356.
Council Leadership
Nicole Melwood
Director, Commonfund Asset Management
Northfield Mount Hermon School, 2001*
Council Members
Lisa Brice
BurgherGray LLP
David Cox
HBO
New Canaan A Better Chance, 2005*
Nicole Madison
FTI Consulting
Ethel Walker, 1999*
Jarron Smith
TIAA
Regwood Snipes
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Deerfield Academy, 2005*
Jasmine Wade
New York University
Westminster School, 2006*
A BETTER CHANCE STAFF
Small but Mighty
Our staff, which works from our headquarters in New York and often the road, is listed below by category.
If you do not know who specifically can best help you, use our more general contact information: