- About the USC Rossier School of Education
- Leadership
- Board of Councilors
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
Reveta Franklin Bowers, BA ’70
Chair, Retired Head of School, Center for Early Education in Los Angeles
Mary James
Vice Chair, Philanthropist, Executive Board Member, Prime Group, Los Angeles
Kenya Barris
TV & Film Writer, Actor, Producer
Patricia Brent-Sanco, EdD ’16
Director of Equity, Access, & Instructional Services, Lynwood Unified School District
Jim Berk
CEO, Goodman Media Partners
Margaret (Maggie) Chidester, EdD ’95
Law Offices of Margaret A. Chidester & Associates
Darnell Cole
Rossier Faculty Council Chair Associate Professor of Education, USC Rossier School of Education
Gary Crisp
President, CEO and Founder of Crisp Imaging
Carol Fox, MS ’62
USC Trustee, Teacher Education Lecturer, Former President, USC Alumni Association Board of Governors
Elana Glasenberg, EdD ’21
Educational Consultant, U21 Education Foundation
John Katzman
Founder, 2U, Inc.; Founder and CEO, Noodle Inc.
Ira W. Krinsky
Consultant, Korn/Ferry International (retired)
Melanie Lundquist, BA ’71, PhD ’73
Activist, Philanthropist, Speech Pathologist (retired)
Noor Menai
President and CEO, CTBC Bank
Pedro A. Noguera
Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean, USC Rossier School of Education
Brent Noyes, BS ’75, MS ’79
Chairman, The Academy; Retired Principal, Arroyo Vista Elementary School
Wesley Smith, EdD ’05
DSAG Chair Superintendent, Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Dean’s Superintendents Advisory Group Chair
Sheree T. Speakman
Founder and CEO, CIE Learning
Shamya Ullah
First Vice President—Financial Advisor, RBC Wealth Management
Peter Weil
Co-Managing Partner, Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLC