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
Purple America Advisory Board
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
Business Advisory Cabinet
Christopher Connor, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet, Chairman & CEO, The Sherwin-Williams Company – Cleveland, Ohio
Alan Hassenfeld, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Hasbro, Inc. – Providence, Rhode Island
Frank Savage, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet CEO, Savage Holdings, LLP – New York, New York
Vice Chairs
John Butte, Vice Chair, Purple America, President, John Butte & Associates – Cleveland, Ohio
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Vice Chair, Purple America, Retired Pastor, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church – Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Eugene Sanders, Vice Chair, Purple America, Former Cleveland Schools CEO - Cleveland, Ohio
Ratanjit Sondhe, Vice Chair, Purple America, Founder, Discoverhelp, Inc. – Cleveland, Ohio
Founders
Ken Lanci, Chairman Emeritus, Project Love-Purple America, CEO, Consolidated Graphics – Cleveland, Ohio
Stuart Muszynski, President & CEO, Values-in-Action Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Advisory Board Members
Joe Bernstein, Retired, Grandparents.com – Boca Raton, FL
Nicholas Bertram, Senior Vice President of Store Strategy & Execution, Ahold
Russell Bishop, Editorial Director, Huffington Post Media Group – New York, New York
James "Jamie" Callender, Jr., Managing Partner, Callender Law Group
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
Ed Davidson, Former Project Love Chair, CEO, Cooperative Lending Resources – Stamford, Connecticut
Barry Doggett, Retired, Community and Government Affairs, Eaton Corp. – Cleveland, Ohio
Matt Dolan, Attorney, Thrasher, Dinsmore & Dolan, LPA - Cleveland, OH
Amir Dossal, Founder & Chairman, Global Partnerships Forum – Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations - New York, NY
Sander Flaum, CEO, Flaum Navigators – New York, New York
Dr. Charlotte Frank, Executive VP, McGraw Hill Companies – New York, New York
Avery Friedman, Esq., National Constitutional Law Expert/CNN Legal Commentator – Cleveland, Ohio
Jennifer Gambatese, Broadway Star – New York, New York
Philip Goldsmith, Former CEO, School District of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eric Gordon, CEO, Cleveland Metropolitan School District – Cleveland, Ohio
Ida Haber, Community Activist – Cleveland, Ohio
Tim Hagan, Stella Maris - Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Thomas Harvey, Associate Professor of Economics & Finance, Ashland University – Ashland, Ohio
Brian Heller, SVP, GlobalSpec – Fairfax, Virginia
Tom Hopkins, Senior VP, HR, Sherwin Williams – Cleveland, Ohio
Greg Johnson, High School Music Teacher, Former Executive Committee Member of NEA – Mustang, Oklahoma
Marci Koblenz, Executive Director, Companies That Care – Chicago, Illinois
Peter Lawson Jones, Attorney – Cleveland, Ohio
Steve Leber, Grandparents.com – New York, New York
Bill Lennon, Lokring Technology - Cleveland, Ohio
Bill Mason, Former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor – Cleveland, Ohio
Rev. Marvin McMickle Ph.D., President, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School – Rochester, New York
Jerry Molen, Producer, “Schindler’s List” – Whitefish, Montana
Marc Pollick, Founder, The Giving Back Fund – Los Angeles, California
Sandra Roberts, Director, The Paper Clips Project – Whitwell, Tennessee
Chris Ronayne, President, University Circle Inc. – Cleveland, Ohio
Peter Rzepka, Transcon Builders, Democratic Leader – Cleveland, Ohio
Terry Scott, Retired, Hasbro – Providence, Rhode Island
Donald Seymour, Former Digital Director, Speaker John Boehner – Washington, DC
Bernie Siegel, MD, Physician & Author – Woodbridge, Connecticut
Ronald Thorpe, President & CEO, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards – Washington, DC
Peter Tuttle, Former CEO, Jobserve USA – Cleveland, Ohio
Jerry Wareham, President, WVIZ/PBS Ideastream – Cleveland, Ohio
Juan Williams, Fox News Analyst
Sheila Wyse, Advertising Executive – Cleveland, Ohio
Peter Yarrow, Folk singer, Operation Respect – New York
Fred Zeidman, CEO, Zeidman Associates, Republican Leader – Houston, Texas
In Memoriam
Alan Schonberg, Co-Founder, Management Recruiters International – Cleveland, Ohio
Steve Wing, CEO, Wings Consulting – Washington, DC
Marc Wyse, Advertising Executive – Cleveland, Ohio