About HGSE
2010 Visiting Committee
Chair
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, A.B. ’74
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Committee Members
Arlene Ackerman, Ed.M. ’93, EdD ’01
Superintendent, The School District of Philadelphia
Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos, A.B. ’81, M.B.A. ’85
Former Chief Operating Officer
New York City Department of Education
Edith S. Aronson, AB ’84, EdM ’97
Board Chair, Coastal Studies for Girls
Paul Buttenwieser, A.B. ’60, M.D. ’64
Psychiatrist, Former Clinical Instructor Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry
Idit R. Harel Caperton, Ed.M. ’84, C.A.S. ’85
Founder, MaMaMedia Consulting Group/MaMaMedia Inc.
and World Wide Workshop for Children's Media Technology and Learning
M. Christine DeVita
President, Wallace Foundation
Lucy Fisher
Film Producer and Co-Head, Red Wagon Entertainment
David Gergen, LLB'67, KSGF '84
Public Service Professor of Public Leadership and Director of the Center for Public Leadership,
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Arturo Madrid
Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Trinity University
Richard Melvoin, A.B. ’73
Headmaster, Belmont Hill School
Diana L. Nelson, A.B. ’84
Director, Carlson Companies
Vicki Phillips
Director of Education, College Ready - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Andy J. Rotherham
Co-founder and partner, Bellwether Education
Patti Saris, A.B. ’73, J.D. ’76
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Steve G. Seleznow, Ed.M. ’89, Ed.D. ’94
President and CEO, Arizona Community Foundation
Dacia Toll
President, Achievement First
David J. Vitale, A.B. ’68
Former Chief Administrative Officer, Chicago Public Schools
Susan Wallach, A.B. ’68, J.D. ’71
Former Special Counsel, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Roger W. Wilkins
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University
![]() | T.J. Martinez, Ed.M.'08"For kids [and] their parents who are in cycles of poverty, violence, and even abuse, [we see] as we come to know their stories. This [opportunity] is something that will break that." -- T.J. Martinez, Cristo Rey Jesuit School. |
![]() | Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06Some have been incarcerated, others are one strike shy of life in prison. College was the last place any of them expected to end up. But it's the one place that Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06, wants to keep them. |
![]() | Raygine DiAquoiShe was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended public schools until the sixth grade when her parents, wanting her to have every opportunity, sent her to the Hewitt School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side. |
![]() | Shimon Waronker, Ed.D. CandidateWhen Waronker walked into J.H.S. 022 in the South Bronx, N.Y. to become its seventh principal in two years, he had reason to be worried. Instead, he was determined to take back the school, starting with the gangs. |


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