Nolan Bowie is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and a Senior Fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. From 1986 to 1998 he was an Associate Professor at Temple University, School of Communication and Theater. His primary policy concerns are issues regarding equity and fairness in the allocation of and access to information (literacy, education, and knowledge) in all formats via digital and analog communication technology. He is a former public interest lawyer who has been teaching, writing, and advocating on behalf of underrepresented constituencies for a period of more than 30 years.
Dr. Helaine Daniels was Director of the Master in Public Policy Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) until 2008, where she managed all student issues for a degree program of more than 450 ethnically and culturally diverse students. Her work began at the Kennedy School in 2001 as Director of International Student Programs, after spending five years in West Africa. While in Africa, Daniels served as technical advisor in competency and skills development for the U.S. Department of State, Agency for International Development in Mali, senior business analyst at Mobil Oil Africa/Middle East in Côte d’Ivoire and visiting scholar/managing director at the Center for the Promotion of Industrial Society and Private Enterprise in Nigeria.
Ronald F. Ferguson is an economist and Senior Research Associate at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and has taught at Harvard since 1983. His teaching and publications cover a variety of issues related to education and economic development. Much of his research since the mid-1990s has focused on racial achievement gaps, appearing in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, and the U.S. Department of Education, in addition to various books and scholarly journals. He participates in a variety of consulting and policy advisory activities, including work with school districts on closing achievement gaps.
David R. Gergen is Public Service Professor of Public Leadership and Director of the Center for Public Leadership. Over the past three decades, he has served as a White House advisor to four presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. In the mid-1980s, he began a career in journalism, becoming editor of U.S. News & World Report. He joined the Kennedy School faculty in January 1999, while remaining editor-at-large for U.S. News and a frequent television analyst. In the fall of 2000 he published a best seller, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton.
William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is one of only 19 University Professors, the highest professional distinction for a Harvard faculty member. After receiving his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1966, Wilson taught sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1972. In 1990, he was appointed the Lucy Flower University Professor and Director of the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. He joined the faculty at Harvard in July of 1996.
