Janet Tran serves as the director of the Center for Civics, Education, and Opportunity (CCEO) for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. She helped design the Foundation’s non-partisan civic learning portfolio to answer President Reagan’s call for an “informed patriotism.” In 2015, she established the Reagan Institute offices in Washington, D.C., with the launch of Leadership and the Amer

Avery Akkineni, president of Vayner3, is leading the mission to guide the world’s largest enterprises in navigating the next iteration of connected consumer behavior. In July 2021, Akkineni launched the VaynerX consultancy, Vayner3, alongside serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. In less than twelve months, Akkineni successfully led the expansion of the consultancy to 50+ global digital innovation experts. Partnering with dozens of Fo

Joni Albrecht is the Director of the John Marshall Center (JMC), which educates learners of all ages about constitutional history and civics and explores the life and legacy of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). The JMC joined the Virginia Museum of History and Culture as a signature study center on July 4, 2023, and serves as a hub for civics education throughout

Jay Barth, appointed in March 2022, is the third director of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. A native of Arkansas, Dr. Barth gained his Ph.D. in political science from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and B.A. from Hendrix College. From the start of 2020 until his arrival at the Clinton Library, Barth was chief

Felicia Bell is the senior advisor to the director at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. A public historian and museum field leader, Bell began this position on March 2, 2020. Additionally, her Smithsonian experience has included a detail where she served as the director of public engagement for the initiative “Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past,” organized to brin

Jeremy Bernard is an author and political activist, and he served as White House social secretary and special assistant to the president from 2011 to 2015. He was president and CEO of The Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles from 2018 to 2020. He is the co-author, with Lea Berman, of Treating People Well. Jeremy has been interviewed on television and for print articles ov

Amy Bracewell is the National Park Service superintendent for the homes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Van Buren, and the Vanderbilt Mansion in Upstate New York. She began her career with the NPS in 2007 at Mount Rushmore National Memorial and has also served at Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park and Saratoga National Historical Park.

Greta Brawner is an executive producer and a regular host of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal—a live, national, call-in program where viewers are able to talk directly to elected officials, policymakers, and journalists covering national policy debates. Behind the camera, Brawner leads a team of producers focused on public affairs and politics programming.

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian; he assumed his position June 16, 2019. As secretary, he oversees twenty-one museums, twenty-one libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers. Two new museums—the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum—are in development. Bunch was the foundi

Gahl Hodges Burt is chairman emeritus of the American Academy in Berlin, an institute she co-founded in 1997 with the late Richard Holbrooke, bringing American scholars to Germany for residency and research. Ms. Burt started her career in the civil service at the U.S. State Department in 1973, where she served as a personal assistant to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,

Cheri Carter is the Vice President of Boeing Global Engagement (BGE), a position she assumed in October 2019. She is responsible for the development and execution of The Boeing Company’s charitable giving and employee volunteerism engagement strategies – directing programs and resources that impact key issues. She works across the Boeing enterprise to build positive relationships with organizations and communities in whic

Jean M. Case, chairman of National Geographic and CEO of the Case Foundation and the Case Impact Network, is a businesswoman, investor, philanthropist, and impact investing pioneer who believes in the power of business to do good, advocating for the embrace of a Be Fearless approach to innovate and bring about transformational breakthroughs. Her career in the private sector, including