Advisory Board Members

Joan Abrahamson
President of the Jefferson Institute in Los Angeles and former Assistant Chief of Staff to Vice President George Bush.

The Honorable Jerry Abramson
Mayor of Louisville, KY and currently an attorney with Frost Brown Todd, LLC.

David Agnew
Former Executive Assistant to Mayor Riley and now a partner in Civitas.

Marjorie Amos-Frazier
Former Charleston County Council Member who was the first woman elected to council and the first African-American and woman to be elected to the SC Public Service Commission. Currently a consultant to BellSouth and Carolina Power and Light.

Jonathan Barnett
Architect and planner as well as a professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael E. Bryant
President of Bryant Trust, Ltd., serves on a number of corporate, non-profit, and international boards. Also a current member of the Senior Advisory Group to the Commander of the United States Military European Command.

J. Thomas Cochran
Executive Director of the United States Conference of Mayors

Stuart Dawson
Landscape architect and urban designer as well as a founding Principal of Sasaki Associates.

David Dinkins
Former Mayor of New York and currently a professor in the Practice of Public Affairs at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Yvonne Evans
Charleston City Council member.

Herbert Fielding
VP and Comptroller for the Fielding Home for Funerals and former member of the SC House of Representatives and the SC State Senate.

W. Foster Gaillard, Esq.
Former City of Charleston Council Member, presently with the law firm of Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, P.A.

Vince Graham
President of Civitas.

Linda Ketner
President of KSI Corporation and a co-founder of the leadership development firm.

Alex Krieger
Founding Principal of Chan Krieger & Associates and a tenured professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he serves as Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning & Design.

Ken Lewis
CEO of Bank of America.

David Rawle
Chairman of Rawle-Murdy Associates, Inc. and a former senior staff member of Corinthian Broadcasting Corporation.

Charles Royer
Former Mayor of Seattle and currently the national program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative.

Kurt Schmoke, Esq.
Former Mayor of Baltimore and currently at law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering.

McKinley Washington, Jr.
Chairman of the South Carolina Employment Security Commission and former twenty-five year member of the SC General Assembly.

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