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National Advisory Board

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John F. Sandy Smith

IRiSS Board Chair
Partner in Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP    
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Karen Cook

Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology
Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
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Henry Brady

Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley
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Kathy Chou

Vice President of Strategy and Operations Americas at VMWare
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Roger Clay

Former President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development
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Mary Dent

Founder of dcIQ
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Craig Falkenhagen

The Stanford Fund, National Chair
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Thomas Geiser

Senior Advisor to TPG Capital
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Matt Halprin

Vice President of Business Operations & Strategy at Yelp
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Rich Jaroslovsky

Vice President for Content and Chief Journalist at SmartNews
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Roberta Katz

Associate Vice President for Strategic Planning, Stanford University
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Donald Kennedy

Former President of Stanford University
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Cindy Lang

Founder of Go To Girl Brazil
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Doyle McManus

Journalist and columnist for the Los Angeles Times
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Gretchen Milligan

Retired founder and principal of Board Focus
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Stephen Peeps

Partner at Meng, Finseth, Peeps & Associates
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Kenneth Prewitt

Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Donna Schweers

Independent Management Consulting Professional
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Gary Segura

Professor of Political Science
Co-Director of the Center for American Democracy
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Chris Thomsen

Executive Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences