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James Wendorf, M.A., Term: 2006–2009
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 Mr. James Wendorf is Executive Director of the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), which seeks to ensure that the nation’s 15 million children, adolescents, and adults with learning disabilities have every opportunity to succeed in school, work, and life. He directs NCLD’s efforts to provide essential information to parents, professionals, and individuals with learning disabilities; to promote research and programs that foster effective learning; and to advocate for policies that protect and strengthen educational rights and opportunities. Get Ready to Read!, a national initiative to screen four-year-olds for skills critical to success in reading, is the largest program in this effort.
For the past 20 years, Mr. Wendorf has worked in the not-for-profit sector to build national and international partnerships supporting learning and literacy programs. These programs have won support from a wide range of foundation and corporate partners, including the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Cisco Systems Foundation, Ford Motor Company Fund, Visa USA, the Goizueta Foundation, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Prior to joining NCLD in 1999, Mr. Wendorf served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., the nation’s largest nonprofit children’s literacy organization, based in Washington, DC.
Mr. Wendorf serves on the advisory boards of the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities and the Home School Institute. He is frequently called upon by the news media to comment on policies and programs affecting individuals with learning disabilities; recent appearances include C-SPAN, The New York Times, the Associated Press, and Christian Science Monitor.
Mr. Wendorf earned a B.A. cum laude from Yale College and master’s degrees in English language and literature from the University of Cambridge and Cornell University. He and his wife, Jessie Lacy Wendorf, have two daughters and live in West Windsor, New Jersey.
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