Founder
Austin Beutner
Chair
Board of Directors
Mickey Kantor
Co-Chair, Vision To Learn
Partner, Mayer Brown
Dr. Thomas Lee, MD
Director, Retina Institute, The Vision Center,
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Renee McColl
Co-founder of Vision To Learn Charlotte
Dan Rabinow
Co-Head, Creative Artists Agency, Motion Picture
Literary Department
Steve Shafran
Senior Adviser, Centerbridge Partners
Cynthia Watts
Vice Chair, Vision To Learn
Partner, Blue Waters Research
Denita Willoughby
CEO, Big Energy Group
Jake Winebaum
Founder, Blue Waters Research
Ann Hollister
Ex Officio
California Advisory Board
Steven Abraham
Executive-in-Residence,
Matrix Capital Management LP
Don Attore
Principal, Attore & Associates, LLC
Glenna Avila
Wallis Annenberg Director,
CalArts Community Arts Partnership
Elizabeth Benator
Elizabeth Benator Consulting
Arnie Berghoff
President, Arnie Berghoff & Associates
Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J.
Founder, Homeboy Industries
Patrick Butler
Assistant Chief, Los Angeles Fire Department
Jack Z. Chen
Chairman & CEO, Transworld Capital Group
Lemuel Daniels
VP Client Advisor, Morgan Stanley
David Fleming
Partner, Latham & Watkins
Stephanie Graves
President & CEO, Lee Andrews Group
Heidi Hertel
Licensed Attorney and Former Political Consultant
JR Johnson
Startup Entrepreneur, Investor and Advisor
Reginald Love
Partner, Transatlantic Holdings
Kerman Maddox
Managing Partner, Dakota Communications
Veronica Melvin
President and CEO, LA’s Promise
Molly Munger
Director, Advancement Project California
Timothy Noonan
CEO, Lockton Insurance
Octavio Pescador
Professor, UCLA
Al Poirier
Deputy Chief, Los Angeles Fire Department Emergency Operations
Ellen Schwarzman
Attorney
Danny Seo
Co-CEO & Founder
Modern Global Sourcing
Matt Siegler
Senior Consultant,
Kaiser Permanente
Michael S. Sitrick
Founder, Chairman, and CEO,
Sitrick And Company
Jan Sobel
Consultant
Tom Soto
Managing Partner / Co-Founder
Craton Equity Partners
Brian M. Wall
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, StoneCalibre
Greg Wells
Musician, Record Producer, Songwriter
Delaware Advisory Board
Robert Abel, Jr. M.D., Chair
Delaware Ophthalmology Consultants
LaWanda Burgoyne
Supervisor, Student Services, Capital School District
Sally Gore
Retired, W.L. Gore
Jeffrey Minkovitz, M.D.
Eye Physicians and Surgeons, P.A.
Dr. Dennis Mirra
Retired, Halpern Eye Care
Fred Sears
Former Director, Delaware Community Foundation
Dr. Jamie Wohlhagen
Delaware Ophthalmology Consultants
Hawai’i Advisory Board
Kenton Eldridge, Chair
Managing Director, Sennet Capital
Mel Jackson
Philanthropist
Lauren Nahme
Vice President, Kamehameha Schools
Ohio Advisory Board
Shane Foster, OD – Advisory Board Chair
Immediate Past President, Ohio Optometric Association
Sergul Erzurum, MD
Co-Founder and President, Sight For All United
Cara Frasco Lai, OD, MS, FCOVD, FAAO
Chair, OOA Children’s Committee
Terri Gossard, OD, MS
Trustee, American Optometric Association;
Chair, AOA Children’s Vision Task Force
Amy Pulles
President & CEO, Prevent Blindness Ohio
Heidi Shaw, LSN, RN
President, Ohio Association of School Nurses
Karla Zadnik, OD, PhD
Dean, The Ohio State University College of Optometry