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Board of Directors

Richard R. Spies
Chairman
Executive Vice President for Planning & Senior Advisor to the President
Brown University

Armeather Gibbs
Vice Chair
Chief Operating Officer
United Way of Rhode Island

Andrew Hodgkin
Vice Chair

Patricia Martinez
Secretary
Director
Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families

John C. Simmons
Treasurer
Executive Director
Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Garry Bliss
Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs 
City Hall

Arnold B. Chace
President
Cornish Associates

Brenda Dann-Messier
President
Dorcas Place Adult & Family Learning Center

Col. Dean Esserman
Chief of Police
City of Providence

Gordon D. Fox
State Representative
Majority Leader

Peter McWalters
Commissioner
Rhode Island Department of Education

Marion E. Orr
Fred Lippitt Professor of Public Policy & Professor of Political Science
Brown University

Gary S. Sasse
Director
Department of Revenue

Robert A. Silvestre
Professor Emeritus
Community College of Rhode Island

Angel Taveras
Attorney at Law
Corley Taveras LLP

Robert A. Walsh Jr.
Executive Director
National Education Association Rhode Island