The Progressive Policy Institute’s Third Way Foundation recently announced the addition of three new members to the Board of Directors, including leaders in business, public education, and finance.
The new board members include:
Elizabeth “Liz” Bowyer, global co-head of brand and content strategy at Goldman Sachs. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Bowyer practiced law at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York, specializing in complex civil litigation. She was also a producer for Tom Brokaw in his documentary unit at NBC, Tom Brokaw Reports, and helped with Brokaw’s bestselling books, The Greatest Generation and Boom: Voices of the Sixties. Bowyer is a veteran of two Clinton presidential campaigns in 1992 and 1996 and was a researcher and speechwriter for former First Lady Hillary Clinton at the White House. Bowyer is a graduate of the University of Florida and Columbia University Law School.
Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) a non-partisan research and policy analysis organization developing transformative, evidence-based solutions for K–12 public education. Lake has authored numerous studies and provided expert testimony and technical assistance on charter schools, district-charter collaborations, and urban school reform and has provided invited testimonies to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee as well as various state legislatures. Lake holds a BA in International Studies and an MPA in Education and Urban Policy from the University of Washington.
Bernard F. McKay was Intuit’s Chief Public Policy officer and Senior Vice President for global corporate affairs. In this role, McKay was Intuit’s senior officer responsible for government affairs, industry relations and global public policy, and was the founding Chairman of the Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation. McKay joined Intuit in January 1998. Prior to that time, he served in a variety of capacities in both the private and public sectors. A former vice president for AT&T, McKay served in government relations positions there in the corporate public affairs department and later led the emerging global markets business development group in AT&T Federal Systems. He also previously served as deputy director of Hewlett-Packard’s Washington Government Affairs office.
Prior to joining the private sector, McKay served in positions in the U.S. Department of Energy office of Congressional Affairs, and with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Emergency Interagency Task Force on the Wreck of the Argo Merchant. He previously served in the Rhode Island State Department of Health. McKay holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Providence College and a master’s degree in business and public administration from Southeastern University. He studied business, government, and international affairs at the University College of North Wales (UK), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CEDEP at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and at the Indiana University School of Business. He was previously Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, and currently serves as a Trustee of Salve Regina University of Newport, RI.
The Third Way Foundation Board of Directors includes:
Will Marshall, Chair of Third Way Foundation Board
Lindsay Lewis, Vice Chair
Paul Weinstein Jr., Secretary and Treasurer
Board Members
Elizabeth Boyer
Robin Lake
Chris Kelly
William Galston
William Budinger
Bernard F. McKay
Jonathan Adelson
Brodi Fontenot
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