Board of Directors

Henry J. Aaron
Former Director of the Brookings Economic Studies Program; former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Carter Administration)

Mayra E. Alvarez
Former Director of the State Exchange Group for the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); former Associate Director for the HHS Office of Minority Health and former Director of Public Health Policy in the Office of Health Reform at HHS.

Kenneth Apfel, Chair
Former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (Clinton Administration); former Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget; former Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas

Maria Cancian
Former Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Fiscal Initiatives and Former Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy for the HHS Administration for Children and Families.

Henry A. Coleman
Former Director, Rutgers Center for Government Services

David de Ferranti
Board Chair, Results for Development (R4D); former World Bank Vice President for Latin American and Caribbean Region; former Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; former Associate Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Carter Administration)

James Jimenez
Executive Director of the New Mexico Pediatric Society; Executive Director of the NMVC Action Fund; Former Executive Director of New Mexico Voices for Children

Wayne Jordan
Founder, Jordan Real Estate Investments (Oakland, CA); member of the boards of the ACLU Investment Committee, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Color of Change, and Rock the Vote

Jacob Lew
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Clinton and Obama administrations); former White House Chief of Staff

C. Lynn McNair
Former Vice President of Philanthropic Partnerships, Alliance for Excellent Education; former Senior Director, Philanthropy & Partnerships, The Internet Society; former Vice President for Philanthropic Partnerships, Salzburg Global Seminar

Ai-jen Poo
Co-Founder of SuperMajority; Author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America; Co-Host of the podcast Sunstorm, Trustee of the Ford Foundation

Robert D. Reischauer
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; former trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds

Kim Wallace
Former Assistant Secretary of Legislative Affairs for the Department of Treasury (Obama Administration); former Senior Analyst for the Senate Budget Committee
Emeritus Board Members
Marian Wright Edelman
President
Children's Defense Fund
In Memoriam
Frank Mankiewicz
1924 - 2014
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John Kramer
Sol Price
1916-2009
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Barbara Blum
Beatrix Hamburg
1923-2018
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