Civil Society Fellowship
Executive and Advisory Committee Members
Civil Society Fellowship Oversight
Our Executive and Advisory Committees are composed of a diverse set of leaders from across industries, disciplines and the political spectrum. Charged with oversight of the Fellowship, the Executive Committee is responsible for evaluating programmatic goals and new opportunities for growth as well as for approving the final class each year, while the Advisory Committee is responsible for identifying and nominating a breadth of candidates for each class. The combined approach of both committees ensures the non-partisan intentions of the Fellowship in keeping with the Aspen Institute and AGLN traditions of leadership development.
Executive Committee
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO, ADL
Nike Irvin
Managing Director, Civil Society Fellowship
Hilary Pennington
Executive Vice President for Program, Ford Foundation
Dan Porterfield
President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
Marc Rowan
Co-Founder, Apollo Global Management
Advisory Committee
Abdullah Antepli
Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs & Adjunct Faculty of Islamic Studies, Duke University
Lanhee Chen
Director of Domestic Policy Studies, Public Policy Program, Stanford University & Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Dolores Huerta
Activist & Founder, Dolores Huerta Foundation
David Krone
Former Chief of Staff to Senator Harry Reid
Johnnie Moore
Founder & CEO, The KAIROS Company
Farah Pandith
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University & Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Jonah Pesner
Senior Vice President, Union of Reform Judaism & Executive
Director, Religious Action Center of the Union for Reform Judaism
Sonal Shah
Founder & Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact,
Georgetown University
Trabian Shorters
Scholar and Founder, BMe Community
Shamina Singh
President, Center for Inclusive Growth & Executive Vice President of Sustainability, Mastercard