Paul Bernstein is the Chief Executive Officer of The Pershing Square Foundation, which makes grants to entrepreneurial leaders who facilitate problem solving and change in the areas of education, global health care, human rights, poverty alleviation and threats.

Paul was previously the Global Managing Director of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a London-based international children’s charity. ARK seeks to offer an excellent education to more children and to close the achievement gap between children from disadvantaged and more affluent backgrounds.

Paul is a trustee of Tzedek, which draws upon the skills and resources of the Jewish Community to better the lives of those less fortunate. Tzedek aims to nurture and empower Jewish community leaders to promote the fight against extreme poverty.

Enrico Gaglioti is the head of Equity Sales in North America for Goldman Sachs. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Don Bosco Prep, a college preparatory high school for young men, dedicated to empowerment through high academic standards and extracurricular enrichment. Enrico also serves on the Board of Directors of the US Soccer Foundation, which seeks to improve the health and well being of children in urban economically disadvantaged areas using soccer as a vehicle for social change.

He serves on the Advisory Council of James Madison University’s College of Business, which BusinessWeek has ranked third among public schools list and fourth among all undergraduate business schools in the U.S. for return on investment.

Jen Holleran is the executive director of Start Up: Education and is an educator with more than two decades of experience. Prior to her position with Start Up, Jen was the Director of New Leaders for New Schools, a program that works to attract, train and support principals in California’s Oakland and Bay Area schools.

Jen began her career as a high school teacher and principal. She worked as a management consultant McKinsey & Company before returning to education to apply her management skills as an administrator for Oakland Unified School District.

Jen was educated at Harvard University and holds a Masters Degree in Education.

Senator Booker won a special election to fill the term of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg- and became New Jersey’s first African-American senator - in 2013. He went on to win a full six year term in the United States Senate in November, 2014. He serves on the Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation, Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Environment and Public Works Committees. Under his leadership as mayor of Newark, the city entered its biggest period of economic growth since the 1960s – the first new downtown hotels were constructed in 40 years, the first new office towers in 20. During Cory’s tenure, overall crime declined and the quality of life for residents improved with more affordable housing, new green spaces and parks, increased educational opportunities and more efficient city services.

Cory was born in Washington, D.C. His father, Cary, was from North Carolina and the son of a single mom, and his mother, Carolyn, is a Detroit native. They both worked for IBM and relocated the family to Harrington Park in Bergen County. Housing rights activists helped the family buy their first home after initially being turned down because of the color of their skin.

A star athlete at Northern Valley High School in Old Tappan, Cory earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University, where he also played for the football team. Cory ran a crisis hotline for students and worked with disadvantaged youth in East Palo Alto. He then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he ran a student tutoring and mentoring program in a disadvantaged community. Cory earned his law degree from Yale Law School, where he helped lead free legal clinics for New Haven residents.

After moving to Newark, Cory lived for eight years in Brick Towers, a low-income housing complex. He now owns a home and lives in Newark’s Central Ward community.

Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAP is The Sharon and Joseph L. Muscarelle Endowed Dean, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the New Jersey Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. His clinical expertise and research focuses on adolescent physical and mental health, adolescent HIV, adolescent violence, adolescent sexuality and family strengthening.

Dr. Johnson Chairs the New Jersey Governor’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and Related Blood Borne Pathogens, the Newark Ryan White Planning Council, and the Board of Deacons at Union Baptist Church in Orange, N.J. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Board of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Science.

Previously, Dr. Johnson has been the President of the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners, the Chair of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Council on Graduate Medical Education, a member of the National Council of the National Institute of Mental Health, member of the NIH AIDS Research Council and Member, Institute of Medicine, Health Care Services Board. He received his BA from Alfred University in 1968 and his MD from New Jersey Medical School in 1972.