Donald Kennedy

Dr. Kennedy has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present, and was university president from 1980 to 1992. From 2000 until 2007, Dr. Kennedy was the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also served as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1977 to 1979.

Dr. Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the America Philosophical Society. He currently serves as a trustee for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is co-chair of the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Harvard University.

Kenneth Prewitt

Dr. Prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has taught at the University of Chicago (1965-1982), Stanford University, Washington University, the University of Nairobi, and Makerere University (Uganda). From 2001–2002, he served as dean of the Graduate Faculty at the New School University.

Dr. Prewitt has had a long professional career outside the classroom. Previous positions include director of the United States Census Bureau (1998–2001), director of the National Opinion Research Center, president of the Social Science Research Council, and senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Russell-Sage Foundation, and member of other professional associations, including the Council on Foreign Relations. Throughout his career, Dr. Prewitt has earned numerous awards and honorary degrees and has authored and coauthored a dozen books and more than 100 articles and book chapters.

Dr. Prewitt earned his B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He received an M.A. from Washington University, and attended the Harvard Divinity School as a Danforth Fellow. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.

Lisa Baird

Ms. Baird is the Chief Marketing Officer of the United States Olympic Committee.

Ms. Baird has extensive experience in marketing having served in senior marketing roles at global Fortune 50 companies. Ms. Baird was formerly the Chief Marketing Officer with the National Football League. Prior to joining the NFL, she oversaw Worldwide Marketing Communications at IBM with oversight in over seventy countries. Ms. Baird has also held senior marketing posts at General Motors, Johnson and Johnson and Procter and Gamble. She is a former Board member of the Association of National Advertisers, and the NY Chapter of the American Marketing Association.

Ms. Baird holds B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Penn State University.

Kay Sprinkel Grace

Kay Sprinkel Grace is the founder and principal of Transforming Philanthropy, LLC. With a passion for philanthropy and insights based in decades of work with nonprofits as a staff development officer, consultant and volunteer, Kay brings new perspective and freshness to the practice of ethical nonprofit planning, management, donor development and fund raising. Ms. Grace is the author of High Impact Philanthropy and The Ultimate Board Member’s Book

Ms. Grace served two years as the first woman Volunteer Chair of the Annual Fund at Stanford University. She served as National Volunteer Chair of the Keystone Program ($10,000 - $100,000 gifts) for Stanford's $1.1 billion Centennial Campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2002, she received Gamma Phi Beta's Carnation Award for outstanding service to her profession. She has been on the faculty of The Fund Raising School (Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University) since 1980.

Ms. Grace holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.