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: Richard Ekman, President Emeritus and Senior Advisor, Council of Independent Colleges
Vice-Chair: Lauren S. McGrail, Executive Director, The Eugene M. Lang Foundation
Treasurer: David A. Caputo, President Emeritus, Pace University
Past Chair: James H. Mullen Jr., Interim President, Hartwick College; President Emeritus, Allegheny College
Audrey Bilger, President, Reed College
Connie Ledoux Book, President, Elon University
Ronald B. Cole, ​President, Allegheny College
Marc C. Conner, President, Skidmore College
Helen Lang Suskin, Former Vice President, Pfizer
Louis A. Martarano, Managing Director, L. Martarano Enterprises
Lourdes M. Rosado, President and General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
​Paul Schadewald, Former Project Pericles Program Director, Macalester College; Senior Project Manager, Brining Theory to Practice; Chair, National Advisory Board, Imagining America
Eugene M. Tobin, Former Senior Program Officer, Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation; F​ormer President, Hamilton College
Scott L. Warren, Visiting Fellow, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins; Co-Founder, Generation Citizen

Presidents' Council

Ron Cole, Allegheny College
Garry Jenkin, Bates College
William Berry, Bethune-Cookman University
Cheryl Nixon, Berea College
Alison R. Byerly. Carleton College​
Rhonda Phillips, Chatham University
Rochelle L. Ford, Dillard University
Hilary L. Link, Drew University
Connie Ledoux Book, Elon University
John Carmichael, The Evergreen State College
Kent Devereaux, Goucher College
Edward C. Wingenbach, Hampshire College
Karen K. Petersen, Hendrix College
Suzanne M. Rivera, Macalester College
David A. Thomas, Morehouse College
Wayne F. Lesperance, New England College
Donna E. Shalala, The New School
Harry J. Elam Jr., Occidental College
Marvin Krislov, Pace University
Strom C. Thacker, 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
Anne E. McCall, 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
Janet Smith Dickerson
Christopher F. Edley, Jr.
Thomas Ehrlich
Jonathan F. Fanton
Nicholas H. Farnham
​​Ellen V. Futter
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National Office

Sanda Balaban, Executive Director
Arielle M. del Rosario,
Associate Director
Tyler Levine, Program Operations Associate
Neil Grabois​
​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
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