The ServiceNation Leadership Council is comprised of some of the most distinguished and influential American leaders and thinkers, all of whom believe that citizen service should be part of every American’s life.
Members of the Leadership Council serve as ambassadors for the ServiceNation campaign, engaging their networks and communities and helping broadcast the ServiceNation message across America.
ServiceNation Summit Co-chairs:
- Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Caroline Kennedy, Vice-Chair, New York City Fund For Public Schools
- Bill Novelli, CEO, AARP
- Alma Powell, Chair, America's Promise Alliance
- Rick Stengel, Managing Editor, TIME Magazine
- Laysha Ward, President of Community Relations and Target Foundation, Target Corporation
- Usher, Recording Artist, Summit Youth Chair
ServiceNation Leadership Council:
- Lawrence Bacow, President, Tufts University
- Joshua Bekenstein, Managing Director, Bain Capital
- Andi Bernstein
- Tom A. Bernstein, President and Co-founder, Chelsea Piers
- Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, New York, NY; Chairman, National September 11 Memorial and Museum
- Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, NJ
- Erskine B. Bowles, President, The University of North Carolina
- Richard H. Brodhead, President, Duke University
- Neil Bush, CEO, Global XS; Chair of the Executive Committee, Points of Light Institute
- Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone
- Mortimer Caplin, Former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service
- Vice Admiral Richard Carmona, Former U.S. Surgeon General
- Jean Case, CEO, The Case Foundation
- Sheila Casey, COO, Capitol Hill Publishing Company
- Richard Celeste, President, Colorado College
- Ray Chambers, Amelior Foundation
- Richard Cizik, Vice President, National Association of Evangelicals
- Henry Cisneros, Chairman, CityView; Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Glenn Close, Actress
- William Cohen, Former Secretary of Defense; Former U.S. Senator
- Janet Langhart Cohen, Author; Founder, Citizen Patriot Organization
- Scott Cowen, President, Tulane University
- Tom Daschle, Former U.S. Senator
- John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University
- Manny Diaz, Mayor, Miami, FL
- John Dilulio, Former Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; Author, The Godly Republic
- Melinda Doolittle, Recording Artist
- Paul Fireman, Founder, Reebok
- Al From, Founder and CEO, Democratic Leadership Council
- Susan Fuhrman, President, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Mark Gearan, President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- David Gergen, Professor of Public Service and Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University
- Michael Gerson, Columnist, The Washington Post
- Stephen Goldsmith, Former Mayor, Indianapolis, IN
- Jennifer Granholm, Governor, Michigan
- Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Theologian; Author, The Jewish Way; Founding President, Jewish Life Network
- Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania
- Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Chair, The King Hussein Foundation
- Lee Hamilton, Former Congressman; Former Co-chair, 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group
- Jenny Chin Hansen, President, AARP
- Gary Hart, Former U.S. Senator
- Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute; Former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA
- Mellody Hobson, President, Ariel Investments
- Admiral James R. Hogg, USN (Ret.), Director, Strategic Studies Group, Naval War College
- Mike Huckabee, Former Governor, Arkansas
- James J. Jensen
- Major General Ronald L. Johnson, USA (Ret.), Senior Vice President, Referee Operations, National Basketball Association
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Author
- Martin Luther King, III, Chairman, Realizing the Dream
- Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Public Schools
- Steven Knapp, President, The George Washington University
- Sherry Lansing, Founder, The Sherry Lansing Foundation
- Jim Leach, Former Congressman; John L. Weinberg Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
- Anthony Marx, President, Amherst College
- Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Chairman, American Red Cross
- Sam Nunn, Former U.S. Senator
- Michael Nutter, Mayor, Philadelphia, PA
- Martin O'Malley, Governor, Maryland
- Sally Osberg, President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, Director, Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Founder, HealthCorps; Author
- Bette Midler, Founder, New York Restoration Project; Performance Artist
- Lt. General Dave R. Palmer, USA (Ret.), Former Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy at West Point; Author
- Leon Panetta, Founder, Panetta Institute
- David Paterson, Governor, New York
- Tim Pawlenty, Governor, Minnesota
- Kal Penn, Actor
- Sonny Perdue, Governor, Georgia
- Gregg Petersmeyer, Former Assistant to the President; Director, Office of National Service under George H.W. Bush
- Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Co-founder, Blackstone Group Management
- Rob Portman, Former Congressman; Former Director, Office of Management and Budget
- Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard University; Author
- Marc Racicot, Former Governor, Montana
- Susan Rice, Foreign Policy Advisor, Obama for America
- Bill Richardson, Governor, New Mexico
- David Shaw, Managing Partner, Black Point Group
- Rodney Slater, Former Secretary of Transportation; Chair, United Way of America
- William Howard Taft IV, Professor, Stanford Law School
- Laurie M. Tisch, President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
- Paul Vallas, Superintendent, New Orleans Recovery School District
- General Henry Viccellio Jr., USAF (Ret.); Former Commander, Air Force Materiel Command
- David Walker, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
- Silda Wall, Founder, Children For Children
- Rick Warren, Senior Pastor, Saddleback Church; Author, A Purpose Driven Life
- Harris Wofford, Former U.S. Senator; Former CEO, Corporation for National & Community Service
