Meet our board of directors
Sue Lehmann
Cofounder and Board Chair
Cofounder and Chief Facilitator, Student Success Network
Gideon Stein
Board Treasurer
Treasurer, the Moriah Fund
Jill Barkin
Director of Education, the Beacon Fund
Elizabeth Green
Co-Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Chalkbeat
Kang-Xing (KX) Jin
Vice President of Engineering, Facebook
Stacy-Marie Ishmael
John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, Stanford University
Meet Chalkbeat’s reader advisors
In addition to our Board of Directors, Chalkbeat also has a dynamic and diverse reader advisory board that guides our coverage, holds us accountable for meeting our goals, and helps us build strong relationships in the communities we cover. If you’re interested in joining the board when the next opening becomes available, please contact us.
Current members:
Sanda Balaban, board chair
Bernita Bradley, Detroit
Sarah Carpenter, Tennessee
Bill de la Cruz, Colorado
Jessica Cuthbertson, Colorado
Nancy Hernandez, Colorado
Matthew Homrich-Knieling, Detroit
Allison M. Lee, New York
Noah Mackert, Boston
Cynthia Masson, New York
Catherine Miller, New York
Cesar Roman, Indiana
Janine Scott, Detroit
Jenae Scott-Robinson, Tennessee
Chris Rogers, Philadelphia
Benecia Tuthill, Tennessee
Plus, a special thanks to our founding members from Colorado and New York: Steve Lazar, Karen Mortimer, Andy Snyder, and Glennon Stratton.