Local Program Committees

The Academy’s Local Program Committees bring local Members together to explore topics of interest at the local or national level; to provide opportunities for social and intellectual connection; to advise on current Academy projects; and to elevate the impact of Academy reports and publications. During the 2017–2018 fiscal year, 153 Members served on 14 committees and hosted 26 events around the country. The Academy is working to establish committees in additional locations, as well as identify local representatives in smaller communities.

Jesse H. Choper, Chair
University of California, Berkeley School of Law

David A. Hollinger
University of California, Berkeley

Randy W. Schekman
University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

David E. Bloom
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Richard E. Cavanagh
Harvard Kennedy School

Felton Earls
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Harvard Medical School

Lawrence K. Fish
formerly, Citizens Bank

Sally Haslanger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arthur Jaffe
Harvard University

Susan Paine
formerly, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Katharine Park
Harvard University

Steven Pinker
Harvard University

William Poorvu
Harvard Business School

Gigliola Staffilani
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mriganka Sur
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sherry Turkle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Natasha Trethewey, Cochair
Northwestern University

Patrick G. Ryan, Cochair
Ryan Specialty Group; World Sport Chicago

Amanda Woodward, Cochair
University of Chicago

Shari Diamond
Northwestern University

Mark Hansen
University of Chicago

Carol Lee
Northwestern University

John W. McCarter, Jr.
Field Museum of Natural History

Eric Neilson
Northwestern University

James W. Pellegrino
University of Illinois at Chicago

Lucia B. Rothman-Denes
University of Chicago

Diane Wood
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Lee H. Rosenthal, Cochair
United States District Court, Southern District of Texas

John Mendelsohn, Cochair
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Rice University

Ernest H. Cockrell
Cockrell Interests, Inc.; Cockrell Foundation

Edward P. Djerejian
Rice University

Neal Lane
Rice University

David. W. Leebron
Rice University

Ruth Simmons
Brown University

Edwin Thomas
Rice University

Louis Geoffrey Cowan, Chair
University of Southern California

Frances Hamilton Arnold
California Institute of Technology

Austin Beutner
Vision to Learn

Gene D. Block
University of California, Los Angeles

Louise Henry Bryson
J. Paul Getty Trust

Albert Carnesale
University of California, Los Angeles

James Cuno
J. Paul Getty Trust

Louis M. Gomez
University of California, Los Angeles

Maria D. Hummer-Tuttle
J. Paul Getty Trust

Steven S. Koblik
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Sherry Lansing
Sherry Lansing Foundation

John Lithgow
Los Angeles, CA

Chrysotomos L. Max Nikias
University of Southern California

David W. Oxtoby
Pomona College

Thomas F. Rosenbaum
California Institute of Technology

Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Chair
Yale University

Thomas Appelquist
Yale University

Seyla Benhabib
Yale University

John Carlson
Yale University

Kang-I Chang
Yale University

Margaret Clark
Yale University

Stephen Darwall
Yale University; University of Michigan

Michael Donoghue
Yale University

Robert Ellickson
Yale Law School

Alan Gerber
Yale University

Linda Greenhouse
Yale Law School

Henry Hansmann
Yale Law School

Roger Howe
Yale University

John Langbein
Yale Law School

Joseph Lapalombara
Yale University

Mary Ellen Miller
Yale University

Peter Perdue
Yale University

Thomas Pollard
Yale University

Douglas Rae
Yale University

Judith Resnik
Yale Law School

John Roemer
Yale University

Alan Schwartz
Yale Law School

Ian Shapiro
Yale University

John Tully
Yale University

Megan Urry
Yale University

Carol Gluck, Cochair
Columbia University

Mark Kaplan, Cochair
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

Kenneth L. Wallach, Cochair 
Central National Gottesman Inc.

Diane Ackerman
Ithaca, NY

Thomas Bender
New York University

Martin L. Leibowitz
Morgan Stanley

Nicholas Lemann
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Daniel Rose
Rose Associates, Inc.

Matthew Santirocco
New York University

Deborah Spar
New York, NY

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Cochair
University of Pennsylvania

Nora S. Newcombe, Cochair
Temple University

Philip P. Betancourt
Temple University

Nancy Bonini
University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan A. Epstein
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Martha Farah
University of Pennsylvania

Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
University of Pennsylvania

J. Larry Jameson
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Jean-Michel Rabate
University of Pennsylvania

Nathan Sivin
University of Pennsylvania

Stanley Katz, Chair
Princeton University

Peter Brooks
Princeton University

Michael A. Cook
Princeton University

Janet Currie
Princeton University

Jill Dolan
Princeton University

Carol Greenhouse
Princeton University

Arthur Levine
Princeton University

Nolan McCarty
Princeton University

Harold Poor
Princeton University

Marta Tienda
Princeton University

Michael Wood
Princeton University

Froma Zeitlin
Princeton University

Jill Pipher, Chair
Brown University

Rose McDermott
Brown University

Terry Magnuson, Cochair
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paula D. McClain, Cochair
Duke University

Gordon N. Gill, Chair
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Shu Chien
University of California, San Diego

Patricia Churchland
University of California, San Diego

Michael Cole
University of California, San Diego

Fred H. Gage
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Benedict H. Gross
Harvard University

Theodore Groves
University of California, San Diego

Tony Hunter
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Harvey J. Karten
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

David A. Lake
University of California, San Diego

Thomas Levy
University of California, San Diego

J. Andrew McCammon
University of California, San Diego

Donald A. Norman
University of California, San Diego

Jerrold M. Olefsky
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Susan S. Taylor
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Geoffrey M. Wahl
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

John B. West
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Gerald Early, Chair
Washington University in St. Louis

Lee Epstein
Washington University in St. Louis

Kenneth Ludmerer
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Emily Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Peter Raven
Missouri Botanical Garden

Robert E. Ricklefs
University of Missouri at St. Louis

Larry Shapiro
University Health Partners of Hawaii

James Wertsch
Washington University in St. Louis

Mark Wrighton
Washington University in St. Louis

Steven Knapp, Chair
George Washington University

Norman Augustine
Lockheed Martin Corporation

David B. Brooks
New York Times Company

A’Lelia Bundles
Washington, D.C.

Mary Sue Coleman
Association of American Universities

John J. Degioia
Georgetown University

Donald Graham
Graham Holdings Co.

Sanford D. Greenberg
TEI Industries, Inc.

Irene Hirano Inouye
U.S.-Japan Council

Alan I. Leshner
American Association for  the Advancement of Science

Richard Meserve
Covington & Burling LLP; formerly, Carnegie Institution for Science

Erin K. O’Shea
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Earl A. Powell III
National Gallery of Art

Rebecca W. Rimel
Pew Charitable Trusts

Roger Sant
The Summit Foundation

Victoria P. Sant
The Summit Foundation

Margaret C. Simms
Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at  the Urban Institute

David J. Skorton
Smithsonian Institution

Patty Stonesifer
Martha’s Table