BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Enrique Foster Gittes, President
Lawyer, Investor, Former Teacher,
Former President & Current Trustee of Prep for Prep

Arun Alagappan, J.D.
Founder & President, Advantage Testing, Inc.

Anders C. H. Brag
President, GARB Holdings, LLC,
Venture Capital

Robert Coles, M.D.
James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University,
Author of Children of Crisis (awarded Pulitzer Prize) and The Inner Life of Children

Nan A. Rothschild Cooper, Ph. D.
Director of Museum Studies, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College

Alfred A. Edmond, Jr.
Senior Vice President & Editor-in-Chief, Black Enterprise,
Father of a Member of Prep for Prep

Lucy N. Friedman, Ph. D.
Founder & 20-Year Executive Director, Victim Services,
President, The After-School Corporation (TASC)

Edmund W. Gordon, Ph.D., Trustee Emeritus
Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education,
Richard March Hoe, Professor of Psychology and Education, Emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University,
John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Yale University
Senior Scholar in Residence at The College Board

Warren H. Haber
Chairman / CEO, Founders Equity, Inc.

Geoffrey N. Howarth
Teacher of Latin, The Horace Mann School,
13-Year Veteran Faculty Member of Prep for Prep

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, Ph.D.
President, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County


Denise Lee Hurley

Trustee of Bryn Mawr College

Vice Chairman of Capital Campaign


Jonathan Kozol
A Leading Critic of Social Injustice,
Award-Winning Author of Savage Inequalities, Rachel and Her Children,
Death at an Early Age, Amazing Grace, and Ordinary Resurrections

Keith Meacham
Masters Candidate, Klingenstein Center,

Teachers College, Columbia University

Former Executive Director, Harlem Day Charter School

Christian Neira, Esq., Secretary
Special Counsel, Covington & Burling,
Alumnus of Prep for Prep

Ralph Rivera
Vice President and General Manager, AOL Games & AOL Latino

Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics and Education
Professor of International Public Affairs
Director, New York Latino Research Clearinghouse,
Teachers College, Columbia University
Executive Director, Program in International Migration, Columbia University Law School


Jack L. Rivkin

Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer & Head of Private Asset Management

Neuberger Berman, a Lehman Brothers Company


Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. *
Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Biographer,
Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy

Lois Severini, Ph.D.
Architectural Historian and Former Teacher

Gary Simons
Founder & 25-Year Leader of Prep for Prep,
Founder of LEDA

Samona Joe Tait, Ed. D.
Head of School, Bronx Preparatory Charter School

Alumna of Prep for Prep

Lynn B. Thoman

Co-President, Lowenstein Foundation

Managing Partner, Corporate Perspectives


Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph. D.
President, Princeton University,
Professor of Molecular Biology

The Honorable Merryl H. Tisch

Member, New York State Board of Regents


* deceased