- 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
Mary James
Chair, Philanthropist, Executive Board Member, Prime Group, Los Angeles
Kenya Barris
TV & Film Writer, Actor, Producer
Jim Berk
CEO, Goodman Media Partners
Austin Beutner
Former Superintendent Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
Patricia Brent-Sanco, EdD ’16
Director of Equity, Access, & Instructional Services, Lynwood Unified School District
Margaret (Maggie) Chidester, EdD ’95
Law Offices of Margaret A. Chidester & Associates
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
Lynn Jacobson
Advisory Board Teach for America, Los Angeles
John Katzman
Founder, 2U, Inc.; Founder and CEO, Noodle Inc.
Michael Lizárraga
President & CEO, TELACU and TELACU Industries, President, TELACU Education Foundation
Patrick Liew, EdD ’15
Executive Chairman, GEX Global Group
Melanie Lundquist, Ex-Officio member
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
Artineh Samkian
Rossier Faculty Council Chair Associate Professor of Clinical Education, USC Rossier School of Education
Wesley Smith, EdD ’05
DSAG Chair Superintendent, Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Dean’s Superintendents Advisory Group Chair
Sheree T. Speakman
Founder and President, Talent First, PBC
Shamya Ullah
First Vice President—Financial Advisor, RBC Wealth Management
Peter Weil
Co-Managing Partner, Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLC