Donald Davis is the retired chairman and CEO of The Stanley Works. He began his business career in 1948 with Stanley and became executive vice president in 1962, and CEO in 1966. Under his leadership, Stanley grew to become a “Fortune 200” company with annual sales approaching 2 billion dollars. Currently, Davis is a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Dual Master’s degree program, “Leaders for Manufacturing,” where over the last 10 years he has taught courses in Leadership, Ethics, and Public Policy. He is a graduate of Penn State University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Davis is past chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, and the National Institute for Dispute Resolution.

David Domenici is a co-founder of the See Forever Foundation. He now serves as chair of the See Forever Board of Directors and is a founding board member of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School Board. He also recently transitioned into serving as the Principal at the Oak Hill School, DC’s secure facility for youth who have been adjudicated delinquent, now currently being operated by the See Forever Foundation.  He served as the executive director of See Forever until July 2006 and the school’s principal from its founding until June 2002. He has worked with our target population since the inception of Project SOAR, the predecessor program to See Forever and Maya Angelou in 1995. His work experience includes teaching school full-time in D.C. for one year, an internship at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, two years in finance on Wall Street, and three years in general practice at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He also served for eight years as the volunteer director of DCWorks, a summer pre-college program for at-risk teens from DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Domenici is a 1992 graduate of Stanford Law School, an Echoing Green Fellow (1998), a member of the 1998-1999 Washington Post Principals Leadership Institute, and a 2002 Ashoka Fellow.

Gertrude Eaton served as associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs with the University System of Maryland (USM) from 1980 to 2007. Eaton also served as executive director for the USM higher education Shady Grove Center in Montgomery County, MD. Prior to 1980, she served as academic program coordinator for the National Institutes of Health Upward Mobility College and director of American University’s Office of Program and Research Development. For the past 18 months, Eaton has served, part-time, as the program director of a six year Title II partnership grant for Teacher Quality Enhancement that included Maryland institutions of higher education and the Prince George’s County school system. She received her Bachelor of Arts, Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ellen Folts is the executive director for the Leonsis Foundation. Prior to her financial planning work for Ted Leonsis and James V. Kimsey, Folts worked for four years at Ernst and Young, a large accounting firm.

Jeffrey Kanne is the managing director of Real Estate for the National Electrical Benefit Fund and the National Electrical Annuity Plan. Prior to this position he worked as an attorney for Counts & Kanne, Chartered, of which he was a founding partner. Kanne has broad and diverse experience in the real estate investment and development process, starting with experience as a laborer and carpenter in high school and college. He gained early ground level experience while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer where, among other projects, he initiated and led the financing, construction and staffing of an elementary school in rural Senegal, West Africa. He received his JD with High Honors from the University of Iowa School of Law where he worked as the senior articles editor for the Iowa Law Review. Kanne serves on the Board of Directors of Gibson Island Corporation and Wilmorite Properties, Inc.

Elfreda Massie is currently a marketing executive for Notification Technologies, Inc. She began her career in education as an elementary classroom teacher and has since has gained extensive experience working in school systems. She has served as superintendent (interim) and chief of staff for District of Columbia Public Schools; deputy superintendent and Director of Personnel for Baltimore County Public Schools; and as the associate superintendent for Personnel Services for Montgomery County Public Schools.

Cheryl Mills is the chief operating officer of New York University. Prior to joining New York University’s staff, she was a senior vice president and general counsel for Oxygen Media. For eight years, Mills worked for President William Clinton, first as an associate counsel and then as the Deputy White House Counsel, where she gained significant media exposure through her representation of Mr. Clinton in the impeachment hearings. Mills is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia and of Stanford Law School. Mills sits on the boards of a number of for-profit and not-for-profit institutions, including Stanford Law School.

Reid Weingarten is a partner with the Washington, D.C. based law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, LLP and is head of the firm's white-collar crime defense group. Prior to joining the firm, Reid served as a trial attorney for the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice and as a deputy district attorney for Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Weingarten was inducted in the fall of 1995 as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He serves as a council member of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and served for two terms as chairman of the White Collar Crime Committee. He also teaches courses on Public Corruption and Professional Responsibility as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.