Board of Trustees

Mr. Harrison is the President and Managing Member of Totem Enterprise Group, a business development/consulting firm in Washington DC. Mr. Harrison has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the U.S. SBA Office of Advocacy. He is the former President of the Business Consortium Fund, Inc., the nation’s only financing and business support organization focused exclusively on the certified minority-owned corporate supplier business sector. Mr. Harrison also has experience in venture capital investing, economic development, and small business finance. He has practiced corporate and securities law with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Venable law firm. He received his B.S. in Business and Marketing Management from Cornell University and his J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Bruce Berman is General Counsel of WilmerHale. He is a partner in WilmerHale’s Litigation/Controversy Department, leads the firm’s Education Practice, and is a member of the Strategic Response Practice and Regulatory and Government Affairs Department.

Mr. Gordon is a Senior Legal and Policy Advisor at EducationCounsel, a mission-driven education consulting firm. Dan formerly served the District of Columbia Public Schools as a senior advisor for school design, as deputy chief academic officer for college and career readiness, early childhood education, language acquisition, and out-of-school time programs, and as chief of staff to the chief academic officer. Previously, he was a lead English teacher at Columbia Heights Education Campus in Washington, D.C. He started his career as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s Educational Opportunities Section, where he enforced federal education antidiscrimination statutes across the nation. Dan holds degrees from American University (MAT) and Harvard University (BA and JD) and is an alumnus of both AmeriCorps and the Broad Residency in Urban Education.

Mr. Roe is one of the founders of Thurgood Marshall Academy. He recently retired from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a professor and director of its Street Law Clinic. Rick established and directs the D.C. Family Literacy Project, which helps incarcerated parents of young children to build their capacities to develop their children’s literacy, and the Georgetown Even Start Project, which works with homeless families. He earned his B.A. from Yale College and his J.D. from the University of Maine.

Mr. Stoel is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Hogan Lovells US LLP. He represents clients in the arbitration and litigation of international trade and investment disputes and with respect to international economic policy issues. In 2012, Jonathan was recognized as a “Rising Star Under 40,” International Trade by Law360.com. Mr. Stoel is a Washington, DC native and received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Brown is Senior Vice President and Director of the Center for Responsible Lending in their Washington, DC office. The Center for Responsible Lending is focused on policy research and advocacy to stop predatory lending practices. George’s distinguished 30-year career includes founding the Community Development Corporation and working for the District of Columbia Government and the United States Department of Housing and Development, as well as teaching courses at the University of the District of Columbia in the School of Business and Public Management. George is a graduate of Howard University and the Georgetown University Law Center.