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