Advisory Council

A bipartisan Advisory Council of respected and distinguished national figures endorses Spotlight’s call for a substantive debate on poverty. 

The Council, which is in formation, already includes:

  • Geoffrey Canada:

    Author and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone

  • William S. Cohen:

    • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Cohen Group and former Secretary of Defense and Senator

  • Christine Grumm:

    President and CEO, Women's Funding Network

  • Ron Haskins:

    Senior Scholar and Co-director, Center on Children and Families, the Brookings Institution, former Staff Director, Subcommittee on Human Resources, House Ways and Means Committee and former Special Advisor to the President

  • Nancy L. Johnson:

    Senior Public Policy Advisor, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz, PC and former Member of Congress

  • Otis  Johnson:

    Mayor of Savannah, Georgia

  • George Mitchell:

    Partner, DLA Piper, Chairman of the Global Board and Co-Chair of the Government Controversies Practice Group and former U. S. Senator

  • E. Clay Shaw Jr.:

    Former Member of Congress

  • Wellington E. Webb:

    Founder, Webb Group International, and Managing Director, Webb Development Group and former Mayor of Denver, Colorado

    • Former Spotlight Advisory Council members:

  • Rebecca M. Blank:

    Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Department of Commerce; former Robert S. Kerr senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; and former co-director of the National Poverty Center and dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan

  • Mark Greenberg:

    • Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; former Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; and Director, Georgetown University Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy

  • Jack Kemp (1935-2009):

    • Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Representative, Vice Presidential Candidate, and Founding Chairman of Kemp Partners

  • Jeanne Shaheen:

    U.S. Senator and former Governor of New Hampshire



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