AYSPS Advisory Board
Chair
Samuel E. Allen
Chairman, Globalt, Inc.
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
Angela Allen
Chairman, Full Circle Living
Thomas Carroll
Vice president
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
Arnold L Martin, III
President, Absolute Lending and Mortgage
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
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
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
Executive Director, The Andrew Young 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
Bart Hildreth
Dean, AYSPS
* Note: Several members of the advisory board hold Georgia State University degrees: Angela Allen (M.B.A '80), J. Veronica Biggins (M.Ed. '70), Alicia Philipp (M.B.A. '82), and Sally Rosser (M.H.A. '75).