Members

Malbert Smith III (’77 M.Ed., ’80 Ph.D.), Chair
Executive Chairman
MetaMetrics

Alison Cleveland (’14 M.S.A.)
Principal
Green Hope High School

Frank Rockwell Comfort (’69 M.A.T.)
Head Swimming Coach (Retired)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fred Pfohl Crouch II (’71 M.A.T.)
Social Studies Specialist (Retired)
Prince George County Schools

John D. Denning (’08 Ed.D.)
Senior Advisor
The John M. Belk Endowment

Tracy Zeigler Goyne (’86 A.B.Ed.)
Sr Learning and Development Program Manager
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

Marc Gustafson (’97 A.B.Ed.)
Partner
Bell, Davis & Pitt, PA

Gerry House (’88 Ed.D.)
Former Superintendent, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Memphis (TN) City Schools
Board of Directors, Learning Policy Institute 

Zach Howell (’06 BA)
Managing Partner
Riverdale Investments

Harold Lillard Kennedy III (’74 B.A.)
Partner/Attorney
Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy

Thomas Willis Lambeth (’57 B.A.)
Senior Fellow
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

Meghan Mackay, Ed.D.
Executive Director
LeveragED Foundation

Tami Polge (’93 B.A.Ed., ’03 M.A.)
Curriculum Consultant and Non Profit Board Member

Michael D. Priddy (’70 B.A., ’75 M.Ed., ’81 Ed.D.)
Educational Consultant and Speaker, 21st Century Leadership, LLC
North Carolina Public Schools Superintendent (Retired)

Bryan Smith (’96 BA)
Director of Experiential Education
Lakeside School, Seattle WA

Malchus L. Watlington (’68 B.S.I.R., ’69 M.P.A.)
President
City Square Consulting Inc.

Duncan Young (’95 B.S.P.H.)
CEO of Effective School Solutions

Katie Young (’96 A.B.Ed.)

Kristen Smith Young (’01 A.B.Ed.)
Director of Communications
School of Data and Information Sciences

Ex-Officio Members

Amy Rickard (’94 A.B.Ed., ’00 M.S.A.)
Principal
Morris Grove Elementary, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
President

UNC School of Education Alumni Council