TEAGLE FOUNDATION - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• President

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• President
• Foundation Chief
• Named the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

Andrew Delbanco is named this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities Andrew Delbanco became President of The Teagle Foundation on July 1, 2018, and has served on its Board of Directors since 2009. Since 1985, he has taught at Columbia University, where he is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies. Mr. Delbanco earned his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Mr. Delbanco's most recent book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War (Penguin Press, 2018), was named a New York Times notable book. It was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf prize for "books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity" and the Mark Lynton History Prize, sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, for a work "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression." His other books include College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be (Princeton University Press, 2012), which has been translated into several languages; and Melville: His World and Work (Knopf, 2005), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Book Prize in Biography. Mr. Delbanco's essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals on topics ranging from American literary and religious history to issues in higher education. He has won Columbia's Lionel Trilling Award three times, for The War Before the War (2018), Melville (2005), and The Puritan Ordeal (1990). Mr. Delbanco was elected president of the Society of American Historians for 2021-2022. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a member of the inaugural class of fellows at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is a trustee of the Library of America and previously served on the boards of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the National Humanities Center, and the PEN American Center. Mr. Delbanco is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 2001, Time named him "America's Best Social Critic." In 2006, he was honored with the Great Teacher Award by the Society of Columbia Graduates. In 2012, President Barack Obama presented him with the National Humanities Medal "for his writings on higher education and the place classic authors hold in history and contemporary life."

Job Titles:

• Chief Financial Officer

Ann-Marie Buckley joined the Teagle Foundation in January 2011. She is responsible for the overall financial and operational activity of the Foundation. Ann-Marie Buckley is Chief Financial Officer of The Teagle Foundation and is responsible for the overall financial and operational activity of the Foundation. She also serves as Treasurer for the Board of Directors. She joined the Foundation in 2011. Prior to joining the Foundation, she worked at KPMG and other profit and not-for-profit organizations in the New York area. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of New York and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Manhattan College in Accounting and Computer Information Systems.

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• Senior Program Officer

Annie W. Bezbatchenko is Senior Program Officer at The Teagle Foundation, supporting both institutional and civic initiatives. She has been involved with the Foundation since 2011, and joined in this capacity in 2021. Previously, she consulted with Storbeck Search and the Ford Foundation. Annie has taught at New York University, Baruch College, and Sheridan College in Ontario. Her work has been published in Change Magazine, Inside Higher Ed, and The Hechinger Report. Annie serves on the Board of Directors at Ohio Humanities. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and M.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, both in higher education, and a B.A. in Leadership Studies from the University of Richmond.

Job Titles:

• President
• President Emeritus, Macalester College / President - in - Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Brian Rosenberg is president-in-residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and president emeritus of Macalester College. He was elected to The Teagle Foundation's Board of Directors in 2014. Dr. Rosenberg is active nationally on issues related to education, serving as a member of the Leadership Circle of the Presidents' Climate Commitment, the Council on Foreign Relations' Higher Education Working Group, the Presidents' Trust of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Presidents' Advisory Board of the Bonner Foundation, and the board of Wallin Education Partners. He is a past chair of the board of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, of the American Council on Education's Commission on International Initiatives, and of the Presidents' Council of Project Pericles. He is also a member of the board of directors of Allina Health. Prior to his Macalester presidency, Rosenberg was dean of the faculty and an English professor at Lawrence University. Rosenberg also served as an English professor and chair of the English department at Allegheny College. A Charles Dickens scholar, he has written numerous articles on the Victorian author and other subjects as well as two books: Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens (University of Missouri Press, 1996) and Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet: The Price of Freedom (LSU Press, 1991). Dr. Rosenberg served as a trustee of the Dickens Society from 2000 to 2004. He received a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Provost and Dean of the Faculty Emerita, Barnard College

Elizabeth S. Boylan directed the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's programs on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Higher Education from 2011 to 2020, focusing on the education and professional advancement of underrepresented groups and the improvement of student learning and performance. Dr. Boylan was elected to the Board of Directors of The Teagle Foundation in 2014, and became chair of the Board in July 2021. She served as provost and dean of the faculty at Barnard College from 1995 to 2011, leading efforts promoting faculty career enhancement, curriculum reform, international education, and capital projects. Prior to Barnard, Dr. Boylan was associate provost for academic planning and programs at Queens College/CUNY and a tenured member of the biology faculty at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Major funders of her research included the National Cancer Institute and the American Federation for Aging Research. She has served on the Commission for Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the Leadership Network for International Education of the American Council on Education, and the Advisory Board of Project Kaleidoscope. Honors include election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Frederick A. P. Barnard Award for service to Barnard College, and the Frank Abbott Award from the SREB Institute of Teaching and Mentoring. A specialist in developmental biology and hormonal carcinogenesis, she earned a Ph.D. in zoology/embryology from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from Wellesley College.

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• Vice Chairman and Chairman of Global Natural Resources Investment Banking
• Vice Chairman and Chairman of Global Natural Resources Investment Banking / Barclays
• Vice Chairman of Banking at Barclays Capital

Grant A. Porter is Vice Chairman of Banking at Barclays Capital. He was elected to The Teagle Foundation's Board of Directors in 2009. Previously, Mr. Porter led Global Natural Resources Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers. He has also held leadership positions at Chase Manhattan Bank. Mr. Porter serves on the Board of Trustees of The Taft School and the Advisory Board of New Providence Asset Management, and is a member of the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He received his BA from Brown University and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development.

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• Vice President for Finance and Administration, Swarthmore College ( Retired )

Gregory N. Brown served as the Vice President for Finance and Administration from 2014 until his retirement in 2022. Prior to joining Swarthmore, he served as Chief Operating Officer (2008-2014) and Vice President for Finance and Planning (2006-2008) at Barnard College; as Chief Administrative Officer at Hebrew Union College (2004-2006); as Assistant Vice Chancellor and Controller for the University of California, Berkeley (1999-2004); as Controller for the city of New Haven, Conn. (1994-1999); and as Finance Director for the town of North Branford, Conn. (1992-1994). In addition, he worked at Yale University from 1981 to 1992 in a variety of capacities in the Controller's Office, the Office of Budget and Planning, Internal Audit, and the School of Drama. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an MPA from the University of New Haven.

Job Titles:

• Associate
• Program Associate

Gwen Robbins serves as Program Associate at The Teagle Foundation, where she is responsible for grants administration and bookkeeping. She started at the Foundation as a part-time consultant in 2014 and joined full-time in 2016. Previously, she was an independent contractor for accounting services. She earned a B.B.A. in Finance from Dowling College.

Job Titles:

• Vice President
• VP, Issues & Advocacy, Low Carbon Solutions at ExxonMobil

Kevin W. Murphy is Vice President, Issues and Advocacy, Low Carbon Solutions at Exxon Mobil Corporation. His previous positions included President of the ExxonMobil Foundation and Global Manager of Community Investments & Strategy at Exxon Mobil Corporation; Manager of Global Policy Issues; Public & Government Affairs Manager of ExxonMobil Natural Gas & Power Marketing Company; and Manager of U.S. State Government Relations. Prior to joining the company in 2004, he held several positions in Washington, D.C., including his final position as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy & Environmental Technologies in the International Trade Administration. He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Indiana University. He was a Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund in 2008 and served on the board of directors and executive committee of the World Affairs Council of Dallas - Fort Worth from 2008-2011 and again from 2016-2021. Kevin currently serves on the board of directors of the Teagle Foundation and the National Forest Foundation.

Job Titles:

• Senior Program Director

Loni Bordoloi Pazich is a Senior Program Director at The Teagle Foundation specializing in institutional initiatives. Previously, she served as research associate with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California. Loni Bordoloi Pazich is a Senior Program Director at The Teagle Foundation specializing in institutional initiatives. She joined the Foundation in 2014. In this role, she is focused on efforts to ensure that all students experience a genuine liberal arts education whether they are enrolled in two- or four-year colleges. She is also responsible for the foundation's assessment activities. Previously, she served as a research associate with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California. She also was a Fulbright Fellow affiliated with the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil. She teaches at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Her work has been published by Educational Policy, Educação e Sociedade, and Routledge. Her doctoral dissertation received the Barbara K. Townsend Dissertation of the Year Award from the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and M.Ed. from the University of Southern California, both in higher education, and a B.A. in English from the University of California Los Angeles.

Job Titles:

• President
• President, Hollins University / President Emerita, College of St. Benedict

Mary Dana Hinton, Ph.D., is the president of Hollins University and president emerita of the College of Saint Benedict. In addition to the Teagle Foundation, she is a member of the board of directors for the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Interfaith Youth Core, Saint Mary's School, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. She chairs the AAC&U Presidents' Trust. Hinton's scholarship focuses on leadership and inclusion in higher education. She is the author of The Commercial Church: Black Churches and the New Religious Marketplace in America and is a frequent op-ed contributor across higher education publications. Hinton earned a Ph.D. in religion and religious education with high honors from Fordham University, a Master of Arts degree in clinical child psychology from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Williams College. She also holds honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Misericordia University and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Hinton is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, was the recipient of the Bicentennial Medal from Williams College, and was recognized with Credo's eighth annual Courageous Leadership Award.

Job Titles:

• President Emerita
• President Emerita / American Council of Learned Societies

Pauline Yu was the president of the American Council of Learned Societies until 2019 and was elected to The Teagle Foundation's Board of Directors in 2004. She was formerly Dean of Humanities in the College of Letters and Science and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Prior to that appointment, she was founding chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at UC-Irvine and on the faculty of Columbia University and the University of Minnesota. She is the author or editor of five books and dozens of articles on classical Chinese poetry, literary theory, comparative poetics, and issues in the humanities. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of its board, she is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Committee of 100. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. In addition, she is a trustee of the American Academy in Berlin and the National Humanities Center. She received her B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. Yu holds four honorary degrees and is a senior research scholar at Columbia University.

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• Program Director
• Program Director, New Designs
• Program Director, New Designs / Carnegie Corporation of New York

Saskia Levy Thompson is a program director within the Carnegie Corporation's Education program, where she manages the New Designs to Advance Student Learning portfolio. Ms. Thompson oversees grantmaking aimed at advancing school and system models that enable students to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for future success. Ms. Thompson brings a wealth of experience as a practitioner and system-level leader to her role at the Corporation. Most recently, Ms. Thompson served as the Deputy Director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, and also sat on the senior leadership team at the NYC Department of Education (DOE), where she served as Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning, CEO of School Support, and Special Advisor to the Chancellor. Prior to her tenure at the DOE, she was a Senior Associate at MDRC, where she worked with school districts around the country to develop interventions and evaluations aimed at improving outcomes for disadvantaged youth. Before joining MDRC, she was the Executive Director of the Urban Assembly, a nonprofit network of high schools serving high-poverty communities.

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• Advisory Partner / Partners Group
• Advisory Partner at Partners Group

Scott Essex is an Advisory Partner at Partners Group, a global private markets investment manager. He also works with BlueEarth Capital, an independent global impact investment firm, serving as Chairman of the credit investment committee. Scott was elected to the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation in 2018. He was previously co-Head of the Private Debt business unit at Partners Group. He was a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Chairman of the Private Debt Investment Committee and member of the firm's Global Executive Board. He has been with Partners Group since 2007. Prior to joining Partners Group, Scott worked at GE Capital in New York and with Lazard Ltd. in London. He has a B.S. in business administration from the University of Vermont and Masters in Business Administration with distinction from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

Job Titles:

• EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
• Executive Director of the Board

Sheryl Hilliard Tucker is executive director of The Board Challenge and Chief External Affairs officer of AFS Intercultural Programs. Tucker has been Chief Editor of three national publications-Black Enterprise, Essence, and Your Company-and was on the senior executive team that managed Time Warner's portfolio of more than 100 magazines and digital brands worldwide. Ms. Tucker is a Trustee Emerita of Cornell University and serves as a Trustee of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey. Ms. Tucker received a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and attended New York University's Heyman School of Philanthropy. She was elected to The Teagle Foundation's Board of Directors in 2021.

Job Titles:

• Senior Program Director

Tamara Mann Tweel is a Senior Program Director at The Teagle Foundation specializing in civic initiatives. Previously, she served as the Founder and Director of Civic Spirit and the Associate Director of the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University. Tamara Mann Tweel is a Senior Program Director at The Teagle Foundation specializing in civic initiatives. She joined the Foundation in 2019. In this role, she is focused on efforts to strengthen the civic dimension of undergraduate education. Previously, she served as the Founder and Director of Civic Spirit and the Associate Director of the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University. She currently teaches in the American Studies Program at Columbia University and at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She has testified before Congress on the importance of bringing the humanities and civic education to young people. In 2009, she received the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Her work has been published in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Journal of World History and Inside Higher Ed. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, an M.A. in theology from the Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. in political philosophy and art history from Duke University.

Job Titles:

• President
• President / Teagle Management, Inc.

Walter C. Teagle, III is the President of Teagle Management Company, a private investment consulting firm and Chairman Emeritus of the Teagle Foundation. Previously he was the Founder and General Partner of Groton Partners, a small merchant banking firm. Over the last 25 years he has been a Founder, Director and Officer of several entrepreneurial companies. He started his investment career at Exxon Mobil Corporation in the Treasurer's Office. After attending graduate school he became a portfolio manager at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He currently serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of the First National Bank of Long Island. He also serves as a Director, Trustee and/or advisor to a number of philanthropic organizations. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. degree in economics and received a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.