Advisory Boards
National Advisory Board
Geoff Smith, Chair
Digitalis Ventures
Senior Faculty, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alexandra Contreras
Senior Analyst, Global Diversity & Inclusion, Colgate-Palmolive
Bard Early Colleges parent
Andrew Hamingson
President, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Bard Early Colleges parent
Margaret Hempel
Foundation Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Justice, Ford Foundation
Bard Early Colleges Parent
Tessa Huxley
Chair, Development Committee
Bard Early Colleges parent
Ben Iselin
Partner, McGuire Woods, LLP
Bard Early Colleges parent
Charles Johnson
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
Trustee, Bard College
Dayna Langfan
Langfan Company
Bard Early Colleges Parent
Beth Lief
Executive Director, Petrie Foundation; Former President, New Visions for Public Schools
Matt Mallow
Senior Managing Director and General Counsel, BlackRock
Ray Peterson
Vice President for Early Colleges
Former Founding Principal of Bard High School Early College Manhattan and Newark
Carol Reich
Founder, Beginning with Children Foundation and Charter Schools
Marquitta Speller
Executive Director for Secondary and Collegiate Programs, The Harlem Children's Zone
David Steiner
Director, John's Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
Former New York State Commissioner of Education
David Tsang
Senior Strategy Consultant, IBM
Bard Early Colleges alumnus
Jay Quaintance
President, SUNY Sullivan
Cleveland Advisory
Natalie Celeste
Steve Day Calfee
Sean Decatur
Joan Katz
Vanessa Lange
Thomas Lasley
Karen Lee
Sandra Madar
Elizabeth Newman
Lori Scott
Mary Thomas
Baltimore Advisory
Ann Allston Boyce, Chair
Francesca Gamber, Ex Officio
James H. DeGraffenreidt, jr.
Neil E. Duke
Shannice Anderson
Jonathan Flombaum, phd
Lenel Srochi-Meyerhoff
Jane Sundius
Charles Wilson
New Orleans Advisory
Ethan Ashley
Clay Brooks
Jeffrey Clayman
Amanda Kruger Hill
Sam Joel (Chair)
Barbara MacPhee
Lauren Mulcahye
Katrina L. Rogers
Pauline Willeford
Nicole Young (ex officio)
Simon’s Rock Board of Overseers
Board Officers
James M. Clark Jr. ’76
Interim Chair
Emily H. Fisher
Chair Emerita
Robert B. Strassler
Chair Emeritus
Board Members
Loren AliKhan ’99
Samir Arora ’02
Susan Beckerman
+ Ian Bickford ’95
Provost and Vice President, Bard College
+ Leon Botstein
President, Bard College
Christopher Derhammer Hill ’86
Jennifer Fan ’99
Jill Rosenberg Jones
Dan Lipson ’74
Jack Sanderson
Scott Shenker
Brianna Strange ’06
Matt Strassler ’81
John Thompson ’76
+ Taun Toay
Vice President for Enrollment and Strategic Initiatives, Bard
+ ex officio