- About the USC Rossier School of Education
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Board of Councilors
The USC Rossier Board of Councilors provides strategic advice, support and assistance to ensure USC Rossier’s role as a model education research and training institution for the 21st century. Board members help implement strategies to secure major gifts for the school’s priorities and act as advocates for the school’s mission to prepare leaders to achieve educational equity through practice, research and policy.
Meet Our Councilors
![Mary-James 160x160.jpg Mary James](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Mary-James%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=2tv1-Iyi)
Mary James
Chair, Philanthropist, Executive Board Member, Prime Group, Los Angeles
![KB headshot 160x160.jpg Kenya Barris](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/KB%20headshot%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=5BiRMpdv)
Kenya Barris
TV & Film Writer, Actor, Producer
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Jim Berk
CEO, Goodman Media Partners
![Austin Beutner Austin Beutner](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2023-08/AustinBeutnerHorizontal-640x431.jpg?h=1b6ae652&itok=q-R56ttl)
Austin Beutner
Former Superintendent Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
![Patricia Brent-Sanco 160x160.jpg Patricia Brent-Sanco](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Patricia%20Brent-Sanco%20160x160.jpg?h=0d6f00a3&itok=6a926TPl)
Patricia Brent-Sanco, EdD ’16
Director of Equity, Access, & Instructional Services, Lynwood Unified School District
![Margaret (Maggie) Chidester 160x160.jpg Margaret (Maggie) Chidester](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Margaret%20%28Maggie%29%20Chidester%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=BXb_IvcL)
Margaret (Maggie) Chidester, EdD ’95
Law Offices of Margaret A. Chidester & Associates
![Gary Crisp Gary Crisp](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-08/23376_077_8x10_GaryCrisp.png?h=036a71b7&itok=KjBOuMtS)
Gary Crisp
President, CEO and Founder of Crisp Imaging
![2019-08-Centennial-Skirball-0182 160x160.jpg Carol Fox](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/2019-08-Centennial-Skirball-0182%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=YLJLeqoR)
Carol Fox, MS ’62
USC Trustee, Teacher Education Lecturer, Former President, USC Alumni Association Board of Governors
![Elana Glasenberg 160x160.jpg Elana Glasenberg](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Elana%20Glasenberg%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=WbGMNsOC)
Elana Glasenberg, EdD ’21
Educational Consultant, U21 Education Foundation
![Lynn Jacobson Lynn Jacobson](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2023-08/Lynn%20Jacaobson.jpeg?h=28b88a01&itok=c7RA4KIH)
Lynn Jacobson
Advisory Board Teach for America, Los Angeles
![John Katzman 160x160.jpg John Katzman](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/John%20Katzman%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=8HfOyVK2)
John Katzman
Founder, 2U, Inc.; Founder and CEO, Noodle Inc.
![Michael Lizarraga - Headshot 2.png Michael Lizarraga](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2024-01/Michael%20Lizarraga%20-%20Headshot%202.png?h=4e1703fb&itok=86a-Cd-Z)
Michael Lizárraga
President & CEO, TELACU and TELACU Industries, President, TELACU Education Foundation
![Patrick Liew Headshot.jpg Patrick Liew](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2024-01/Patrick%20Liew%20Headshot.jpg?h=d4bae245&itok=FRMLIukD)
Patrick Liew, EdD ’15
Executive Chairman, GEX Global Group
![Melanie Lundquist 160x160.jpg Melanie Lundquist,](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Melanie%20Lundquist%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=8Rz8IXQV)
Melanie Lundquist, Ex-Officio member
Activist, Philanthropist, Speech Pathologist (retired)
![Noor Menai 160x160.jpg Noor Menai](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Noor%20Menai%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=xMjv2NnT)
Noor Menai
President and CEO, CTBC Bank
![Pedro A. Noguera 160x160.jpg Pedro A. Noguera](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Pedro%20A.%20Noguera%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=NnKegc3m)
Pedro A. Noguera
Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean, USC Rossier School of Education
![Artineh Samkian Artineh Samkian](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/profile_import/5e055fagd7aaa40f6f89fa9g945107-Artineh-Samkian.jpg?h=a2f616d4&itok=NusdOOZN)
Artineh Samkian
Rossier Faculty Council Chair Associate Professor of Clinical Education, USC Rossier School of Education
![Wesley Smith 160x160.jpg Wesley Smith](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Wesley%20Smith%20160x160.jpg?h=5687aa87&itok=H7dsW33b)
Wesley Smith, EdD ’05
DSAG Chair Superintendent, Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Dean’s Superintendents Advisory Group Chair
![Sheree T. Speakman 160x160.jpg Sheree T. Speakman](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Sheree%20T.%20Speakman%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=ZEwumdpR)
Sheree T. Speakman
Founder and President, Talent First, PBC
![Shamya-Ullah 160x160.jpg Shamya Ullah](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Shamya-Ullah%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=4GoPYKLr)
Shamya Ullah
First Vice President—Financial Advisor, RBC Wealth Management
![Peter Weil 160x160.jpg Peter Weil](/sites/default/files/styles/160x160/public/2022-06/Peter%20Weil%20160x160.jpg?h=653d7163&itok=qZ7Cg7Tv)
Peter Weil
Co-Managing Partner, Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLC