NWP Board of Directors

The NWP Board of Directors is a broad-based, diverse group of education, civic, business, and community leaders dedicated to improving the teaching of writing in the nation's schools. The board meets three times a year. Please see the board's meeting schedule.

Donald McQuade, Chair Professor of English University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	Kristin Mannion Senior Client Partner Korn/Ferry International, Washington, DC
Benjamin Bates Associate Professor of Communications Langston University, Langston, OK	David Meyerowitz President and CEO Strategic Capital Corporation, Toronto, Canada
Chiara Coletti Director of Communications Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, AFL-CIO, New York, NY	Caryn McTighe Musil Senior Vice President Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC
Ruth Devlin Teacher Paradise Professional Development School Las Vegas, NV	Shirley Robinson Pippins President Victory University, Memphis, TN
George P. Haley Partner Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, CA	Liz Campbell Stephens Professor Emerita Texas State University–San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
Michael Kane Managing Director Caltius Mezzanine, Los Angeles, CA	Christa Velasquez Senior Fellow The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Augusta Souza Kappner President Emeritus Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY	Sharon J. Washington Executive Director National Writing Project, Berkeley, CA
Judith Warren Little Professor and Dean Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA