Project Pericles is governed by its Board of Directors and executive staff in consultation with the Presidents’ Council and the National Board of Advisors.

Board of Directors


Chair Emeritus and Founder: Eugene M. Lang (1919-2017)
Chair: James H. Mullen Jr., President Emeritus, Allegheny College
Vice-Chair: Janet Smith Dickerson, Vice President for Students Affairs, The Claremont Colleges Services; Former Vice President, Princeton University 
Treasurer: David A. Caputo, President Emeritus, Pace University
Audrey Bilger, President, Reed College
Marc C. Conner, President, Skidmore College
Richard Ekman, President Emeritus and Senior Advisor, Council of Independent Colleges
David Finegold, President, Chatham University 
Neil R. Grabois, Former Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Former President, Colgate University
Helen Lang Suskin, Former Vice President, Pfizer
Jan R. Liss, Executive Director, Project Pericles
Louis A. Martarano, Managing Director, L. Martarano Enterprises
Lauren S. McGrail, Executive Director, The Eugene M. Lang Foundation
Michele D. Perkins, Chancellor of New England College
Vincent M. Ponzo, Startup Business Development Management, Amazon Web Services
Lyle D. Roelofs, President, Berea College; Chair, Project Pericles Presidents' Council
Lourdes M. Rosado, President and General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF     
Eugene M. Tobin, Former Senior Program Officer, Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation;
​Former President, Hamilton College
Scott L. Warren, Visiting Fellow, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins; Co-Founder, Generation Citizen

Presidents' Council

Chair: Lyle D. Roelofs, Berea College
Ron Cole
Allegheny College
Clayton Spencer
Bates College
Lawrence M. Drake II
Bethune-Cookman University
Alison R. Byerly
​Carleton College​
David L. Finegold
Chatham University
Rochelle L. Ford
Dillard University
Thomas J. Schwarz
Drew University
Connie Ledoux Book
Elon University
John Carmichael
The Evergreen State College
Kent Devereaux
Goucher College
Edward C. Wingenbach
Hampshire College
W. Ellis Arnold III
Hendrix College
Suzanne M. Rivera
Macalester College
David A. Thomas
Morehouse College
Wayne F. Lesperance
​New England College
​Dwight A. McBride
The New School
Harry J. Elam Jr.
Occidental College
Marvin Krislov
Pace University
Jill A. Klein
Pitzer College
Audrey Bilger
Reed College
Jennifer M. Collins
​Rhodes College
Marc C. Conner
Skidmore College
Valerie Smith
Swarthmore College
Robyn E. Hannigan 
Ursinus College
Angelo G. Araimo
Wagner College
Sarah R. Bolton 
Whitman College
Stacey M. Robertson 
Widener University
Wayne Webster 
The College of Wooster

National Board of Advisors

Co-Chairs:
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker and Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke
​​​David Baltimore
John Baugh
J. Herman Blake
Alfred H. Bloom
Roger W. Bowen
Harry C. Boyte
Sen. Bill Bradley
Paul Brest
Russell L. Carson
Raymond G. Chambers
Nadinne Cruz
​Richard A. Detweiler
Christopher F. Edley, Jr.
Thomas Ehrlich
Jonathan F. Fanton
Nicholas H. Farnham
​​Ellen V. Futter
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National Office

Jan R. Liss, Executive Director
Emily G. Ford, Deputy Director
Arielle M. del Rosario,
Associate Director
Curtis B. Gans
​Richard Guarasci
Llewellyn P. Haden, Jr.
Samuel L. Hayes III
Antonia Hernandez
​Gov. Thomas H. Kean
Arthur E. Levine
​Reuben Mark
Mary Patterson McPherson
​Michael S. McPherson
Nancy B. Peretsman
Robert D. Putnam
Judith A. Ramaley
David M. Scobey
Allen P. Splete
Mark A. Vander Ploeg
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In Memoriam

​Alison R. Bernstein
Jerome A. Chazen
Gov. Mario M. Cuomo
​Curtis B. Gans
Amb. James C. Hormel
Helene L. Kaplan
Clark Kerr
Eugene M. Lang
Paul Newman
Sen. Paul Simon
​Sen. Harris L. Wofford
​Elizabeth McCormack