Board of Directors
The DFER Board
Kevin Chavous (chair) - Former Washington, DC, City Council member and chair of the Education Committee.
Tony Davis - Anchorage Capital, board chair for Achievement First East New York, in Brooklyn.
Charles Ledley - Highfields Capital Management, board member of the Tobin Project
Rafael Mayer - Co-founder and managing partner, Khronos LLC, board member for Planned Parenthood of NYC, KIPP AMP, and The Dalton School.
Sara Mead - New America Foundation, former analyst for Education Sector and the Progressive Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
John Petry - Gotham Capital, co-founder of Harlem Success Academy Charter School, NYC.
Andrew Rotherham - Co-Founder and Publisher, Education Sector, former White House education advisor to President Clinton, author of the blog, Eduwonk.com.
Whitney Tilson - T2 Partners and Tilson Funds, vice chairman of KIPP Academy Charter Schools in NYC, co-founder of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.
(Note - Organizations listed here are for identification purposes only and do not imply an endorsement or affiliation.)
The DFER Board of Advisors
William Ackman - Founder, Pershing Square Capital.
Steve Barr - Founder and CEO, Green Dot Public Schools.
Cory Booker - Mayor of Newark, N.J.
David Einhorn - Founder of Greenlight Capital, LLC.
Joel Greenblatt - Founder and Managing Partner of Gotham Capital.
Vincent Mai - Chairman of AEA Investors, LP.
Michael Novogratz - President of Fortress Investment Group.
Tom Vander Ark - Partner, Revolution Learning.
