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The Commission on Presidential Scholars is a group of eminent private citizens appointed by the President to select and honor the Presidential Scholars. Commissioners are selected from across the country, representing the fields of education, medicine, law, social services, business, and other professions. The Commissioners make the difficult choices of selecting Scholars from an initial pool of approximately 3,000 candidates who demonstrate exceptional accomplishments in academics, the arts, and an outstanding commitment to public service.
The Commission on Presidential Scholars
Marina C. McCarthy
Commission Chair
Educational Consultant
Associate, Davis Center, Harvard University
Massachusetts
José M. Amaya
Community Development Specialist
Iowa State University
Iowa
Michael A. Caplin
Chairman, Phoenix Project Nonprofit Leadership Program
President, Turtle Island Group, LLC
President, The New York Center for Children
Virginia
Martha Darling
Education Policy Consultant
Michigan
Alan H. Fleischmann
Principal and Board Member, Albright Stonebridge Group
Co-founder, Board Member, and Managing Director, ImagineNations Group
Maryland
Judy Gaynor
Co-founding Member, Chicago Committee of Human Rights Watch
Member, Advisory Committee of the Children's Rights Division
Illinois
Richard P. Herman
Educational Consultant
Retired Founding Director, Windsor Mountain International
New Hampshire
I. King Jordan
President Emeritus, Gallaudet University
Maryland
Colin Crowell Kippen
Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness
Chair, Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness
Hawaii
Reginald Lewis
Executive Director, The Chad School Foundation, Inc.
New Jersey
Yvette Lewis
Creator/Performer, SO THIS IS OPERA
Teaching Artist, Maryland State Arts Council and the Strathmore Hall Performing Arts Center
Maryland
Choco Gonzalez Meza
Founder, CGM Consulting
Texas
Rebecca Mieliwocki
2012 National Teacher of the Year
California
Sondra Myers
Senior Fellow, International, Civic and Cultural Projects, University of Scranton
Director, The Schemel Forum, University of Scranton
Pennsylvania
Alapaki Nahale-a
Director of Community Programs, Kamehameha Schools
Hawaii
Jackie Norris
Executive Director, Points of Light Corporate Institute
Adjunct Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University
Washington, DC
Sheldon Pang
Vice Chairman, Freepoint Commodities
Connecticut
Carol Pensky
Board of Directors Member, DC Prep
Board of Directors Member, Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
Advisory Board Member, Woodley House, Inc.
Washington, DC
Robert Saltzman
Associate Dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Police Commissioner, Los Angeles Police Department
California
Jeanne Unemori Skog
President & CEO, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc.
Chair, Economic Alliance of Hawaii
Hawaii
Srinija Srinivasan
Chair, Board of Trustees of SFJAZZ
Founder, Performance and production center for creative music, Brooklyn, New York
California
Donald M. Stewart
Retired Chief Executive Officer, The Chicago Community Trust
Illinois
Cynthia Ann Telles
Director, UCLA Spanish Speaking Psychosocial Clinic, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, UCLA School of Medicine
Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine
California
Tamara Toussaint
Independent Image Consultant
Social Media Marketing Specialist
Illinois
E. Faye Williams
Chair, National Congress of Black Women
Washington, DC
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