NCFL & Family Literacy
Leadership
The NCFL’s Board of Directors and Board of Advisors is a diverse group including researchers, business executives and former students who help us champion the cause of family literacy. They understand that literacy is the foundation for national economic well-being and local community progress.
Board of Directors
President & Founder, National Center for Family Literacy
George R. Siemens
Vice President, External Affairs
LG&E and KU Energy LLC
David Verble
Partner
Verble, Worth & Verble
Mary Anne O. Cronan
Vice President & Director, American Saddlebred Horse Association
Director, United States Equestrian Federation
Linda Chester
Principal
The Linda Chester Literary Agency
Jacquelyn Jackson, Ed.D.
Retired, Director of Student Achievement and School Accountability
U.S. Department of Education
Jason Falls
Principal
Social Media Explorer, LLC
Rick Barr
Retired, Vice President
Airline Operations, UPS
Charles P. Denny
Regional President
PNC Bank for Kentucky/Southern Indiana/Tennessee
Greg Hintz
Partner
Crowe Horwath
Meredith Parente
Consultant, Finance and Business
Past Vice President, Brown-Forman Corporation
Emeritus Member:
Lee B. Thomas, Jr.
Chairman
Universal Woods, Inc.
Board of Advisors
Sean Astin
Actor, Filmmaker, and Activist
Annemarie Cairns
President, Cairns & Associates, Inc.
Linda Chester
Principal, The Linda Chester Literary Agency
The Honorable William F. Goodling
Former Chairman, Committee on Education & the Workforce
U.S. House of Representatives
Jan Goldstein
Bestselling Author, All That Matters & The Prince of Nantucket
Yoshimi Inaba
President & COO, Toyota Motor North America
Janice Kaplan
Editor, PARADE Magazine
Jeanne B. Mullgrav
Commissioner, NYC Dept. of Youth & Community Development
Byron Pitts
60 MINUTES Contributor & CBS Chief National Correspondent
Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban Education, University of Illinois at Chicago & Director of the Center for Literacy
Dorothy S. Strickland, Ph.D.
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education Emerita, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Johnna G. Torsone
Sr. Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, Pitney Bowes