Colleen Eubanks, President
Executive Director, National Child Support Enforcement Association

Colleen Eubanks is the Executive Director of the National Child Support Enforcement Association, Silver Spring, Md. She serves as chief staff executive for this association focused on serving the child support enforcement community in its efforts to encourage support of children and families. Ms. Eubanks is the parent of three children, Patrick, Aidan and Delaney, and is married to W. Ralph Eubanks, a writer and the Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress.

James Anthony Towns, Esq., Vice-President
Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

Scott Maberry, Esq., Secretary
Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.

Scott Maberry is a partner in the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., focusing his law practice in the area of international trade. At Fulbright, Mr. Maberry serves as Chair of the Pro Bono Law Committee of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He also supervises the litigation training program for young Fulbright & Jaworski attorneys in the Washington office. He has published several articles and is a frequent lecturer on international law.

Mr. Maberry also chairs the American Bar Association’s Committee on Export Controls and Economic Sanctions. He holds a J.D. and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University.

Samuel Casey Carter
Educational Consultant

Samuel Casey Carter is the managing partner of The Allen Company, a professional services firm whose purpose is to create and grow education markets that work to improve the nation’s schools. Before coming to The Allen Company, Mr. Carter was the president of National Heritage Academies, a charter school management company that operates 55 schools in six states where he oversaw corporate strategy, communications, and the implementation of the company’s educational program.

Mr. Carter is also the author of No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools, a book on the effective practices of high-performing schools that refuse to make poverty an excuse for academic failure. In addition to No Excuses, Mr. Carter has edited three other books including Core Virtues, a literature-based character education program for parents and teachers of elementary school students. His articles, essays, and columns have appeared in over 180 newspapers and magazines.

Mr. Carter holds a B.A. in Philosophy & Mathematics from St. John’s College and an M.A. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America.

Joseph W. Clark, Esq.
Of Counsel, Jones Day

Joseph W. Clark is an attorney at Jones Day. He is a member of Jones Day's trial practice as well as a member of the firm's corporate criminal investigations practice. A former federal prosecutor, he has resolved a large number of matters through mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. He also advises public, private, and nonprofit entities on a broad range of legal and regulatory issues.

Mr. Clark served as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2001-2005.

As a part of his commitment to pro bono service, Mr. Clark serves as the Firm's liaison to the Montgomery County, Maryland Public Defenders Office. He has defended several individuals against felony charges brought before the Montgomery County Circuit Court. On behalf of another pro bono client, he is prosecuting a civil action against the United States Department of Interior under the Federal Tort Claims Act. In 2007, he served as chair of the Summer Associate Committee for the Washington Office. In March 2008, District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed Mr. Clark to serve as a trustee on the District of Columbia Retirement Board (DCRB). The DCRB invests, controls, and manages the assets of the DC Teachers' Retirement System and the DC Police Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System.

Mr. Clark graduated magna cum laude from Morehouse College, and earned his J.D. from Harvard University, where he was Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

Darchelle M. Garner
Consultant

Darchelle M. Garner is a consultant to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and South Africa, providing services in organizational development, strategic and operational planning, leadership development, and crisis recovery.

Ms. Garner formerly served as Vice President of Project Development at The CHEST Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American College of Chest Physicians. There she developed and managed global programming, with special focus on tobacco prevention and disparities in health care. Ms. Garner came to the Foundation from Chicago Children’s Museum, where she most recently served as the Vice President of Education and Community Services. There she led the creation of a nationally-recognized community collaboration model, and guided the development of a ground-breaking exhibit on prejudice and discrimination. Prior to her Museum tenure, Ms. Garner worked with the United Way, and for several years in corporate marketing and product management. Ms. Garner serves on the Board of Directors and is Immediate Past Chairman of Shared Interest (NY). She formerly served with the Youth Job Center of Evanston (Illinois), the Chicago House of Blues Educational Foundation, and Action for Children (formerly the Day Care Action Council of Illinois).

Ms. Garner holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Brown University and an MBA in marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Jane Hall
Associate Professor, School of Communication, American University

Jane Hall is an associate professor teaching journalism and media studies at American University in Washington, D.C. She appears regularly on television and public radio and in print interviews as a moderator and commentator on politics and the media, media ethics and young people and media.

Ms. Hall is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. A native of Texas, she has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Texas; she also studied at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Mark Lerner

Mark Lerner has been involved in D.C.'s charter school movement for over 10 years, serving on the boards of the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy and the William E. Doar, Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts for which he served as Board Chair for four years. He also was hired by Examiner.com to blog about D.C.'s charter school movement. Mr. Lerner lives in the District with his wife Michele.

Nancy Poon Lue
Associate Principal, The Advisory Board Company

Nancy Poon Lue is an Associate Principal with The Advisory Board Company, a research and consulting firm serving clients worldwide. Ms. Lue works in the firm’s Corporate Strategy and New Product Development group with a focus on launching and growing services for the firm’s education practice which is already serving more than 200 universities nationwide.

Previously Ms. Lue served as Vice President of Strategic Planning for EdisonLearning Inc. (formerly known as Edison Schools), a leading private management company of public district and charter schools serving more than 300,000 students in the U.S. and the U.K. At EdisonLearning, Ms. Lue oversaw the management and operations of the company’s R&D division including long-term strategic growth projects. Prior to EdisonLearning, Ms. Lue worked as a strategy consultant for Mercer Management Consulting and Capgemini, Inc. and advised global corporations as well as a variety education organizations, non-profits, and foundations.

Ms. Lue is an active volunteer in leadership roles with Harvard University’s Schools and Scholarship Committee Early College Awareness Program, Democrats for Education Reform, and College Summit.

Ms. Lue is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Harvard College, and Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Bill C. Myrthil
Assistant Vice President, The Nolan Financial Group

Bill C. Myrthil is the Assistant Vice President of Plan Services of The Nolan Financial Group. He has the overall responsibility for the strategic direction of the firm’s Executive Benefits Record-keeping services provided to many of the largest corporations in the United States. Throughout his career, Mr. Myrthil has designed or administered executive benefit plans for many Fortune 500 Companies, private institutions, as well as several non-profit hospitals and educational institutions.

After spending many years in senior client management, sales and consulting positions at Equico Securities, Equitable Life and Assurance Company, Clark Consulting (formerly Clark-Bardes/Clark-Bardes Securities), and Schoenke & Associates, he is a leader in the development of technological requirements and implementation of non-qualified financial record-keeping systems.

Mr. Myrthil is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. and has been active in numerous recruitment and fundraising activities for his alma mater, among many other community service activities. As a financial services professional, he currently is a registered member of National Association of Securities Dealers.

He and his wife, Charlene, who is a Managing Member at the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, live in Fort Washington, Maryland, with their two children.

Dr. A. Knighton Stanley, Senior
Minister of Peoples Congregational Church

A. Knighton Stanley has served as Senior Minister of Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C. since 1968. He is a graduate of Talladega College and holds a Master’s Degree from Yale University and a Doctorate from Howard University.

Upon his graduation from Yale in 1962, Dr. Stanley became Director of the Southern Christian Fellowship Foundation at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, and in 1964 he joined the faculty and administration of Bennett College. In both of these positions he was active in the 1963 phase of the Greensboro, North Carolina Civil Rights Movement. He served as advisor to the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality and was appointed to the Human Rights Commission of the City of Greensboro. Dr. Stanley has distinguished himself in many capacities in the District of Columbia.

Dr. Stanley sits on the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Industrial Bank of Washington, and serves on the Judiciary Nominating Committee for the Superior Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. He is the founder and General Secretary of the Petworth Assembly and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Interfaith Alliance.

Dr. Stanley is a Founding President of the Faith Based Community Action Partnership, an organization that works in cooperation with with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department to address the needs of youth.