Board of Directors
Chairman:
Leonard A. Gail
Phone: 312-427-0175
Email: LennyGail@UrbanDebate.org
Vice Chairman:
Richard W. Sullivan
Phone: 312-755-0480
Email: DickSullivan@UrbanDebate.org
Governing Board Members:
Dawn Ryan Budner • Owner • The Budner Law Firm PLLC
Wayne L. Firestone • President • Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Leonard A. Gail • Founding Partner • Massey & Gail LLP
Elizabeth Garrett • Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science,
and Public Policy • University of Southern California
Kenneth A. Hersh • Co-founder and CEO • NGP Energy Capital Management
The Honorable Kenneth M. Karas • U.S. District Court Judge • Southern District of New York
Walter W. Katz • Office of Independent Review
Mark T. Koulogeorge • Co-founder and Managing General Partner • MK Capital
Jonathan S. Massey • Founding Partner • Massey & Gail LLP
Garry G. Mathiason • Senior Shareholder • Littler Mendelson PC
Meredith McClintock • CEO and Founder • Ready Solar
Stephen C. Perry • President and CEO • Claritage Capital LP
James R. Roland • Director of Community Debate Programs • Emory University
Greg Rosenbaum • President and Founder • Palisades Associates, Inc.
Gretchen Crosby Sims • Vice President of Programs • The Joyce Foundation
Scott H. Segal • Partner • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
Stuart H. Singer • Partner • Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Richard W. Sullivan • Retired Partner • Accenture Ltd.
Jennifer Wade • Director of Research • CAVU Capital Advisors
David Zarefsky • Professor of Communication Studies • Northwestern University
Honorary Board Members:
David Boies • Managing Partner • Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
David L. Boren • President • University of Oklahoma
General (Retired) Wesley K. Clark • Senior Fellow • UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
Willie E. Gary • Founder • The Gary Law Group
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. • Professor of the Humanities • Harvard University
Penny Pritzker • President • Pritzker Realty Group
Secretary Ken Salazar • Secretary • U.S. Department of the Interior
Lawrence H. Summers • Director • National Economic Council
Laurence H. Tribe • Professor of Constitutional Law • Harvard Law School
Paul G. Vallas • Superintendent • Recovery School District of New Orleans
James Q. Wilson • Professor of Public Policy • Pepperdine School of Public Policy
Young Professionals Leadership Board Members:
Ellen E. Oberwetter (Chair) • Partner • Williams & Connolly LLP
Jennifer Wade (Chair) • Director of Research • CAVU Capital Advisors
Chime Asonye • Program Assistant, Africa Division • International Republican Institute
Alex Berger • Writer, Producer
Sanket J. Bulsara • Counsel • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Justine B. Fisher • Vice President, High Yield Research • Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Lindsay C. Harrison • Associate • Jenner & Block LLP
Andrianna D. Kastanek • Associate • Sidley Austin LLP
Eli J. Kay-Oliphant • Associate • Latham & Watkins LLP
Lauren A. Linder • Associate • Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Ara Lovitt
James T. Lux • Associate • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Gordon M. Mead, Jr. • Partner • Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson PA
Susan Napier • Vice President, Private Wealth Management • Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Matthew Nichols • Managing Director • Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Brian S. Prestes • Partner • Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
Carrie M. Reilly • Associate • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Andrew B. Ryan • Associate • Diamond McCarthy LLP
Matthew Shors • Partner • O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Anand Singh • Associate • Sidley Austin LLP
Paul Skiermont • Partner • Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
Shuman Sohrn • Associate • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Joseph M. Terry • Partner • Williams & Connolly LLP
Eric M. Tucker • National Association for Urban Debate Leagues
Shaun M. Van Horn • Jenner & Block LLP
Marc A. Wallenstein • Associate • Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans, & Figel PLLC
