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12th Annual Symposium on Transforming Inner-City Education
Winston J. Churchill Win Churchill has been managing general partner of SCP Partners, a family of venture capital funds, since its inception in 1996. He has over 25 years of experience in private equity investment. From 1989 to 1993 he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the $50 billion Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System. Mr. Churchill is director of a number of companies, both public and private. Mr. Churchill serves as the Board Chairman for both Gesu School and the Gesu Institute, as well as Young Scholars Charter School. He is also a trustee of Immaculata University, American Friends of New College Oxford, England and a former trustee of Fordham University and Georgetown University. Mr. Churchill received his B.S. degree in physics, summa cum laude, from Fordham University in 1962, his M.A. degree in economics from Oxford University in 1964 where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1967. Christine S. Beck Chris Beck has been President & CEO of Gesu School since June 2003, and previously served on the Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2003. In 2007 Gesu completed a $12 million campaign, which included a $6 million expansion project, dedicated in September 2006. Mrs. Beck has held volunteer leadership positions in varied non-profit organizations. In recognition of her efforts to create opportunities for underserved youth, she has received numerous prestigious awards, at both the national and regional levels. Currently, Mrs. Beck serves on the Boards of Saint Joseph’s Preparatory School and Arthur Ashe Learning Center, Inc., as well as the Advisory Board of Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education. She holds a B.A. degree, with Honors, from Queens University of Charlotte and an M.A. degree from Bryn Mawr College, both in German Literature. She is married, has three sons and is a member of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. John J. DiIulio, Jr. Ph.D. John J. DiIulio, Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania where he heads the Fox Leadership Program. Before coming to Penn, he was a professor and research center director at Princeton University. He received a doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University and majored in Economics at Penn. He has authored over a dozen books including Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future (University of California Press, 2007) and (with James Q. Wilson) American Government: Institutions and Policies, 11th edition (Cengage, 2009). Dr. DiIulio has founded nationally-recognized programs to reduce youth violence, promote literacy, and mentor the children of prisoners. In 2001 he served as first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He has been deeply involved in post-Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans, and in myriad efforts to save, support, and strengthen Catholic schools that serve low-income children and families. Involved with North Philadelphia's Gesu School since 1997, Dr. DiIulio credits the Gesu as "a model inner-city school" and "model for all sacred places that serve civic purposes." The Honorable Bruce W. Kauffman Honorable Bruce W. Kauffman has recently retired from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where he served from 1998 until July of 2009. Before joining the federal bench, Judge Kauffman served as Chairman of the Dilworth Paxson law firm for sixteen years. From 1980 until 1982, Judge Kauffman served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and from 1995 until 2001, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Judge Kauffman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Yale Law School, a Member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Judge Kauffman is now Co-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Elliott Greenleaf law firm. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Ph.D. Dr. Jane Dammen McAuliffe became the eighth president of Bryn Mawr College in July 2008. She is also a Professor in the History Department of Bryn Mawr. Previously, she had served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown, Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion and Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, and Professor and Associate Dean at Emory University. She received her BA in Philosophy and Classics from Trinity College, Washington, D.C. and her MA in religious studies and PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Toronto. Dr. McAuliffe is an internationally known scholar of Islamic studies. Her numerous publications have focused primarily on the Qur’an and its interpretation, on early Islamic history and on the multiple relations between Islam and Christianity. She has written or edited four books, published dozens of articles and recently completed the six-volume Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an (Brill, 2001-2006), the first such reference work in Western languages. Dr. McAuliffe’s work has been supported by prestigious fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Guggenheim Foundation. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007 and to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2009. She has served on the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims as well as on the boards of the American Academy of Religion, of which she was president in 2004, and Trinity University. She is married to Dr. Dennis McAuliffe, a scholar of medieval Italian literature at Bryn Mawr College. They are the parents of four children.
Benjamin W. Rayer Mr. Rayer is the Chief Charter, Partnership and New Schools Officer at the Philadelphia School District. In this capacity, he manages 100 schools enrolling more than 50,000 students. Prior to joining the School District, Mr. Rayer was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Mastery Charter Schools. In this role, he was responsible for managing the day to day operations and finances of a charter school system operating high achievement high schools in underserved communities. Prior to working for Mastery, Mr. Rayer was a Director of The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems. In this role, he managed the Center’s Broad Residency program and led training sessions for the Center. Mr. Rayer also currently teaches courses for the Broad Center focused on leadership development, finance and operations of urban public school systems. Prior to working for The Broad Center, Mr. Rayer was a senior consultant at Public Financial Management. In this position, he spent five years providing capital funding advice and management consulting services to governmental entities and school districts across the United States. Prior to working for Public Financial Management, Mr. Rayer was the Special Assistant to the Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, taught 5th grade in the Long Beach Unified School District and worked for an international consumer lending corporation. Mr. Rayer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Policy Analysis from Cornell University, a Master of Government Administration degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2002 graduate of the Broad Center’s Urban Superintendents Academy training program. |
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