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 Dr.
Johnetta Cole, 14th president of Bennett College, has a distinguished
career as a college and university teacher and administrator that
spans 37 years. She is President emerita of Spelman College and
Professor emerita of Emory University from which she retired as
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women's
Studies and African American Studies.
Dr. Cole began her college studies at Fisk University and completed
her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College. She earned a master's
degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University
before embarking on a career in teaching and research in the areas
of cultural anthropology, African American Studies and Women's
Studies.
Dr. Cole made history in 1987 by becoming the first African American
woman to serve as president of Spelman College. At her inauguration,
Drs. Bill and Camille Cosby made a $20 million donation to the
college– at that time the largest single gift from individuals
to any historically Black college or university. Under Dr. Cole's
leadership, Spelman became the first historically Black college
or university to receive a number one rating by U.S. News and
World Report magazine when the college was named the number
one liberal arts college in the south. That same year, Dr. Cole
was named to President-elect Bill Clinton's transition team as
cluster coordinator for education, labor, and the arts and humanities.
Dr. Cole is an active participant in numerous community and civic
organizations including The Carter Center and The TransAfrica
Forum. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, The Links,
Inc. and the National Council of Negro Women. She also serves
on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Greater Greensboro,
Cola-Cola Enterprises and Merck & Co., Inc.
In addition to 47 honorary degrees, Dr. Cole has received numerous
awards including the TransAfrica Forum Global Public Service Award,
the Dorothy I. Height Dreammaker Award, the Radcliffe Medal, the
1999 Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal, the 2001 Alexis deTocqueville
Award for Community Service from United Way of America, the Women
Who Make A Difference Award from the National Council for Research
on Women, and the 2002 Women of Courage and Strength Award from
American Legacy magazine. Dr. Cole continues writing, speaking,
consulting and engaging in community service.
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Dr.
Jane Healy is an educational psychologist and the author of
Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds
- for Better and Worse and Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide
to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence.
Tony
Fernandes has over 15 years of experience in the User Experience
Field. He founded such design groups as the Claris/Apple Human Interface
Group and Netscape's User Experience and Strategic Design Groups.
His product designs span both enterprise and consumer areas and
include Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows, ClarisDraw, Netscape Navigator,
and babyWOW. 
Jacques
Steinberg, who was appointed a national education correspondent
by The New York Times in the summer of 1999, has covered
the New York City public school system for four years. He spent
much of the 1996-1997 school year writing an occasional series about
one third-grade class and its efforts to learn to read.