Purple America Advisory Board
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Chairmen

 

Patricia Frost-Brooks, Co-Chairwoman, Purple America, Past President, Ohio Education Association - Cleveland, Ohio

 

John Wilson, ​Co-Chairman, Purple America, Retired Executive Director, NEA – Raleigh, North Carolina

 

 

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​Business Advisory Cabinet
 

Christopher Connor, ​Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet, Chairman & CEO, The Sherwin-Williams Company – Cleveland, Ohio

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Alan Hassenfeld, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Hasbro, Inc. – Providence, Rhode Island

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Frank Savage, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet CEO, Savage Holdings, LLP – New York, New York

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​Vice Chairs

 

John Butte, Vice Chair, Purple America, President, John Butte & Associates – Cleveland, Ohio

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Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Vice Chair, Purple America, Retired Pastor, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church – Cleveland, Ohio

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Dr. Eugene Sanders, Vice Chair, Purple America, Former Cleveland Schools CEO - Cleveland, Ohio

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Ratanjit Sondhe, Vice Chair, Purple America, Founder, Discoverhelp, Inc. – Cleveland, Ohio

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Founders

 

Ken Lanci, Chairman Emeritus, Project Love-Purple America, CEO, Consolidated Graphics – Cleveland, Ohio

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Stuart Muszynski, President & CEO, Values-in-Action Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio



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Advisory Board Members

 

Joe Bernstein, Retired, Grandparents.com – Boca Raton, FL

 

Nicholas Bertram, Senior Vice President of Store Strategy & Execution, Ahold

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Russell Bishop, Editorial Director, Huffington Post Media Group – New York, New York​

 

James "Jamie" Callender, Jr., Managing Partner, Callender Law Group

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Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts, III, Pastor Abyssinian Baptist Church, President SUNY Old Westbury – New York, New York

 

David Cooperrider, Fairmount Minerals Professor of Organizational Behavior, CWRU – Cleveland, Ohio​

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Ed Davidson, Former Project Love Chair, CEO, Cooperative Lending Resources – Stamford, Connecticut

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Barry Doggett, Retired, Community and Government Affairs, Eaton Corp. – Cleveland, Ohio​

 

Matt Dolan, Attorney, Thrasher, Dinsmore & Dolan, LPA - Cleveland, OH

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Amir Dossal, Founder & Chairman, Global Partnerships Forum – Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations - New York, NY

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Sander Flaum, CEO, Flaum Navigators – New York, New York​

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Dr. Charlotte Frank, Executive VP, McGraw Hill Companies – New York, New York

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Avery Friedman, Esq., National Constitutional Law Expert/CNN Legal Commentator – Cleveland, Ohio​

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Jennifer Gambatese, Broadway Star – New York, New York​

 

Philip Goldsmith, Former CEO, School District of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania​

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Eric Gordon, CEO, Cleveland Metropolitan School District – Cleveland, Ohio

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Ida Haber, Community Activist – Cleveland, Ohio​

 

Tim Hagan, Stella Maris - Cleveland, Ohio

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Dr. Thomas Harvey, Associate Professor of Economics & Finance, Ashland University – Ashland, Ohio

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Brian Heller, SVP, GlobalSpec – Fairfax, Virginia​

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Tom Hopkins, Senior VP, HR, Sherwin Williams – Cleveland, Ohio

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Greg Johnson, High School Music Teacher, Former Executive Committee Member of NEA – Mustang, Oklahoma​

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Marci Koblenz, Executive Director, Companies That Care – Chicago, Illinois

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Peter Lawson Jones, Attorney – Cleveland, Ohio​

 

Steve Leber, Grandparents.com – New York, New York

 

Bill Lennon, Lokring Technology - Cleveland, Ohio

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Bill Mason, Former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor – Cleveland, Ohio

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Rev. Marvin McMickle Ph.D., President, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School – Rochester, New York​

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Jerry Molen, Producer, “Schindler’s List” – Whitefish, Montana

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Marc Pollick, Founder, The Giving Back Fund – Los Angeles, California​

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Sandra Roberts, Director, The Paper Clips Project – Whitwell, Tennessee

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Chris Ronayne, President, University Circle Inc. – Cleveland, Ohio​

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Peter Rzepka, Transcon Builders, Democratic Leader – Cleveland, Ohio

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Terry Scott, Retired, Hasbro – Providence, Rhode Island

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Donald Seymour, Former Digital Director, Speaker John Boehner – Washington, DC​

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Bernie Siegel, MD, Physician & Author – Woodbridge, Connecticut

 

Ronald Thorpe, President & CEO, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards – Washington, DC

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Peter Tuttle, Former CEO, Jobserve USA – Cleveland, Ohio​

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Jerry Wareham, President, WVIZ/PBS Ideastream – Cleveland, Ohio

 

Juan Williams, Fox News Analyst

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Sheila Wyse, Advertising Executive – Cleveland, Ohio

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Peter Yarrow,  Folk singer, Operation Respect – New York​

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Fred Zeidman, CEO, Zeidman Associates, Republican Leader – Houston, Texas

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In Memoriam

 

Alan Schonberg, Co-Founder, Management Recruiters International – Cleveland, Ohio​

 

Steve Wing, CEO, Wings Consulting – Washington, DC​


Marc Wyse, Advertising Executive – Cleveland, Ohio

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Purple America is a national initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation to re-focus the American conversation to a civil, productive and respectful dialogue around our American shared values.

 

Values-in-Action Foundation empowers students and adults to build communities of kindness, caring and respect through programs that teach, promote, and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to make positive values-based decisions every day. To learn more about Project Love, our school-based, character-development initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation, visit www.viafdn.org

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