AYSPS Advisory Board
Chair
Paul C. Rosser, P.E.
Chair, Rosser International, Inc.; former commander, Reserve Naval Construction Force and First Naval Construction Brigade; former chair, Georgia Board of Electrical Contractors; former director, Georgia Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Founding Member
Ingrid Saunders Jones
Senior vice president, The Coca-Cola Company; chair, The Coca-Cola Foundation and Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta; director, Council on Foundations, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Charter Members
Billye Suber Williams Aaron
Former vice president, United Negro College Fund; director, Morehouse College, Georgia Telecommunications Commission, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
Samuel E. Allen
Chairman, Globalt, Inc.
Thomas Carroll
Vice president, Mid-Atlanta Region
Tiffany and Company
Evern Cooper Epps
Former President, UPS Foundation and vice president, UPS Corporate Relations; chair, Board of Corporate Advisors of United Way of America
J. Veronica Biggins*
Partner, HNCL Search; former assistant to the President of the United States and director, Presidential Personnel
Sidney Kirschner
Headmaster, Davis Academy; Retired president and CEO, Northside Hospital
Kathryn Jo Lincoln
President, Lincoln Foundation; chair, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; director, Lincoln Electric Company, International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training in the Republic of China
John D. Maguire
President emeritus, Claremont Graduate University; former president, New York's College at Old Westbury; trustee, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Business Enterprise Trust
Carlton A. Masters
President, CEO and co-founder, GoodWorks International; former executive, Bank of Montreal; director, Africare
Robert A. Meier
President, Atlanta Office
Northern Trust Bank, FSB
Laura Mendenhall
President, Columbia Theological Seminary
Michael Mescon *
Former Holder, Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies; founder and chair, HA&W Mescon Group; dean emeritus, Georgia State University College of Business Administration
Alicia Philipp *
President, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta; director, Central Atlanta Progress; leadership roles in the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, the Council on Foundations Community Foundation Leadership Team
Sally Rosser *
Strategic and Planning Consultant; member, Governor's Action Group for Safe Children
John Rutherford Seydel, II
Of Counsel, Lawson Davis Pickren & Seydel; co-founder and chair, Upper Chattahoochee RiverKeeper Fund; director, Southern Environmental Law Center, Trust for Public Land, Council for Western Rivers
Paula Stephan
Professor Emerita of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Dianne Wisner
Development and Policy Consultant; assistant to Andrew Young; formerly with GoodWorks International
Andrea Young
Senior Program Officer, Southern Education Foundation
Andrew J. Young
Chairman, GoodWorks International; former chairman, Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund; ordained minister, international businessman, human rights activist, author and former U.S. representative, ambassador and Atlanta mayor
Carolyn McClain Young
Executive, GoodWorks International; former educator; director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Apex Museum, Starlight Foundation, Literacy Action
Dean
James Alm
Dean, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
* Note: Several members of the advisory board hold Georgia State University degrees: J. Veronica Biggins (M.Ed. '70), Alicia Philipp (M.B.A. '82), and Sally Rosser (M.H.A. '75).
