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:
Rebecca M. Blank:
Robert V. Kerr Visiting Fellow, The
Brookings Institution and Co-director,
National Poverty
Center , Gerald R. Ford
School of Public Policy, University of Michigan and former Member of President
Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors
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
Mark Greenberg:
Executive Director, Task Force on Poverty Center for American Progress
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
Jack Kemp:
Principal, Kemp
Partners, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and
former Member of Congress
George Mitchell:
Partner, DLA Piper, Chairman of the Global Board & 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
Affiliations listed for identification purposes only