Members
Michael D. Priddy (’70 B.A., ’75 M.Ed., ’81 Ed.D.), Chair
Educational Consultant and Speaker, 21st Century Leadership, LLC
North Carolina Public Schools Superintendent (Retired)
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
Robert Wendell Eaves Jr. (’58 B.S.B.A.)
Owner, Chairman, and CEO (Retired)
The Right Stuff Food Stores
Tracy Zeigler Goyne (’86 A.B.Ed.)
Director of Inclusion & Engagement
Sabre Corporation
Marc Gustafson (’97 A.B.Ed.)
Partner
Essex Richards P.A.
Ronald Thayer Haskins (’70 M.A.T.)
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Brookings Institute
Gerry House (’88 Ed.D.)
Former Superintendent, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Board of Directors, Learning Policy Institute
Zach Howell (’06 BA)
Harold Lillard Kennedy III (’74 B.A.)
Partner/Attorney
Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy
Moise Khayrallah (’93 Ph.D.)
CEO and Co-Founder
Emergo Therapeutics
Thomas Willis Lambeth (’57 B.A.)
Senior Fellow
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
Meghan Mackay, Ed.D.
Executive Director
LeveragED Foundation
Christopher Riddick (’00 B.A., ’07 M.P.A.)
Head of Client Experience at ReadySet
Bryan Smith (’96 BA)
Director of Experiential Education
Lakeside School, Seattle WA
Malbert Smith III (’77 M.Ed., ’80 Ph.D.)
Executive Chairman
MetaMetrics
Ann Gobbel Sullivan (’57 A.B.Ed.)
Malchus L. Watlington (’68 B.S.I.R., ’69 M.P.A.)
President
City Square Consulting Inc.
Willis “Bill” Whichard (’62 B.A., ’65 L.L.B.J.D.)
Attorney
Tillman, Whichard & Cagle PLLC
Former N.C. Senator, Supreme Court Justice, Dean of Campbell School of Law
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
UNC School of Data Science and Society
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