Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Announces New Board Members
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation announced its 2012 Board Officers and Directors. The 2012 Officers are:
- Baxter Sharp, Chair – Attorney at Law, Sharp & Sharp, PA, Chairman of the Board, Merchants & Planters Bank, Clarendon, AR; and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the 1st Judicial District, Brinkley
- Yvette Murphy-Erby, Ph.D., Chair-Elect – Director and Associate Professor, University of Arkansas School of Social Work, Fayetteville
- Regan Gruber Moffitt, Secretary – Senior Associate for Public Policy, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock
New Board members include:
- Jerry Adams – President and CEO, Arkansas Research Alliance, Conway
- Susan Harriman – Director of Policy, Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock
In addition, nine members are continuing their terms on the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Board:
- Phil Baldwin – President and CEO, CredAbility, Atlanta, Georgia
- René Bryce-Laporte – Program Manager, Skills for America’s Future, The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.
- William J. Bynum – CEO, Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union, Jackson, Mississippi
- Cynthia East, Owner, Cynthia East Fabrics, Little Rock
- Andre Guerrero, Ed.D. – Director, Programs for Language Minority Students, Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock
- Pledger Monk – Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Little Rock
- Toyce Newton – President and CEO, Phoenix Youth & Family Services, Inc., Crossett
- Lisenne Rockefeller – Little Rock
- Vicki Saviers – Former Executive Director of the Public Education Foundation of Little Rock, Little Rock
- Diana Gonzales Worthen, Ph.D. – Director, Project Teach Them All, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville