EVI shares office space and staff with Education Voters of America, in Washington DC’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. The six full-time staff include the president, the director of operations, the director of finance and administration, the senior accountant, the development manager, and the online communications manager.
EVI Board of Directors
Dan Leeds, founder and chair
- Alliance for Excellent Education, board chair
- Brookings Institution Business Council, member
- Brookings Institution Center for the United States and Europe, advisory board member
- Enfranchisement Foundation, board co-chair
- Education Voters of America, board chair
- MIT Sloan School of Management, Dean’s advisory board
- NY EdPAC, board chair
- Teachers Institute of Washington DC, board member
Sunita Leeds, secretary/treasurer
- Enfranchisement Foundation, co-chair
- Education Voters of America, board member
- Maret School (DC), board member
- National Jewish Democratic Council, executive committee
- NY EdPAC, board member
James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H.
- Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center
- Founded Comer School Development Program, 1968
- Member, National Committee on Teaching and America’s Future
- Member, Nellie Mae Education Foundation Board of Directors
- Member, Columbia University Board of Directors
- Received the 2006 John Hope Franklin Award
- Received the 2004 John P. McGovern Behavioral Science Award from the Smithsonian
- Recipient of numerous honorary degrees. Board Member Emeritus of several institutions.
John H. Jackson Ed.D., J.D.
- President and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education
- Founder and Chairman of the National Equity Center Inc.
- Held previous positions as NAACP’s Chief Policy Officer and National Director of Education
- 2002 recipient of the NAACP Medgar Evers Award
- Appointed by President Clinton to serve as Senior Policy Officer in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.
Douglas E. Wood, Ph.D.
- George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, fellow
- National Academy for Excellent Teaching, Columbia University, executive director
- Former Executive Director of the Tennessee State Board of Education
- Named 1994 South Carolina Technology Educator of the Year
- Awarded the 2002-2003 Distinguished Service Award by the Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers
Linda Darling-Hammond, Ed.D.
- Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University
- Launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network
- Founding executive director of the National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future, the blue-ribbon panel who authored the 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future
- Wrote The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 1998
Paul Herdman, Ed.D.
- President and CEO of the Rodel Foundation
- Managed support to states at New American Schools
- Conducted research for the Brookings Institution, RAND, US Dept of Education, and the World Bank
- Co-founded a school-within-a-school in New York City, used as a model for Expeditionary Learning
- Worked in MA Dept of Education under two governors during redesign of state’s policies on standards, choice, and finance
- PhD from Harvard in Education Administration and Planning