The Opportunity Agenda Board members represent a diverse spectrum of disciplines, constituencies and approaches, yet all of them have demonstrated in their work a rare priority on cross-disciplinary collaboration, leadership development, a focus on results and a deep respect for diversity. In addition to diversity of experience, our Steering Committee and Advisory Board represents a diverse range in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, geography, and age. For a list of former advisory board members, please click here.

  • Timothy Wilkins, Chair of the Steering Committee

    Timothy Wilkins, a partner in the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee (future Board of Trustees) of The Opportunity Agenda. His practice focuses on corporate mergers, private equity investments and joint ventures. His clients include US and European multinationals and major Japanese corporations. 

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  • Bill Lann Lee, Co-Founder, Advisory Board Chair

    Bill Lann Lee, a distinguished civil rights lawyer, serves as Senior Counsel and Advisory Board Chair to The Opportunity Agenda. Lee is a partner with the law firm Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C. in Oakland, California.  Bill has extensive experience in the litigation of employment discrimination, police misconduct, housing discrimination, transportation equity, environmental justice, and other civil rights cases.

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  • Alan Jenkins, Co-Founder, Executive Director

    Alan Jenkins, Executive Director of The Opportunity Agenda previously served as Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, managing over $50 million in grant making annually in the United States and eleven overseas regions.  He has also served as Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice.  Prior to that, he was Associate Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where he defended the rights of low-income communities suffering from exploitation and discrimination.

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  • Phoebe Eng, Co-Founder, Advisory Board Member

    Phoebe Eng, Director of the Creative Counsel, has worked for over a decade with senior management and leadership teams to develop programs and networks that amplify the voices of people of color and women in our nation's cities, companies, and communities.  At The Opportunity Agenda, Phoebe previously served as Creative Director.

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  • Brian Smedley, Co-Founder, Advisory Board Member

    Brian Smedley, Vice President of the Joint Center and Director of its Health Policy Institute, previously served as Research Director at The Opportunity Agenda.  Earlier, Brian served most recently as a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where he was Study Director for the IOM report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.

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