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Our Advisory Board and Steering Committee
The Opportunity Agenda Advisory Board members represent a diverse spectrum of disciplines, constituencies and approaches, yet all of them have demonstrated in their work a rare priority on cross-disciplinary collaboration, leadership development, a focus on results and a deep respect for diversity. In addition to diversity of experience, our Advisory Board represents a diverse range in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, geography, and age.
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 Bill Lann Lee, Chair, Steering Committee; Co-Founder
Bill Lann Lee, a distinguished civil rights lawyer, serves as Senior Counsel and Board Chair to The Opportunity Agenda. Lee is a partner with the law firm Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C. in Oakland, California.
Lee has extensive experience in the litigation of employment discrimination, police misconduct, housing discrimination, transportation equity, environmental justice, and other civil rights cases. He co-chairs the firm’s Employment Practice Group and chairs the Human Rights Practice Group. Lee was an attorney for 17 years with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Inc. He headed the Legal Defense Fund’s Western Regional Office in Los Angeles, California. In December 1997, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Justice, by President Bill Clinton and served until January 2001. Lee is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, such as the ABA Spirit of Excellence Award (2004), Anti-Defamation League Pearlstein Civil Rights Award (2002), the U.S. Department of Justice John Randolph Distinguished Service Award (2001), and the Pioneer Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans (2000). |
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 Phoebe Eng, Director, Creative Counsel; Co-Founder Emeritus of The Opportunity Agenda
Phoebe Eng has worked for over a decade with senior management and leadership teams to develop programs and networks that amplify the voices of people of color and women in our nation’s cities, companies, and communities. She has worked with several Fortune 100’s, including Procter & Gamble, IBM, and JP Morgan Chase, foundations, public agencies, universities and civic associations such as the National League of Cities.
From 2002 to 2004, Eng also directed The Social Change Communications Project, a foundation-sponsored research initiative exploring the role of strategic communications in social justice advocacy. She sits on the Advisory Board of Working Mother Media’s Best Companies for Women of Color initiative, which produces an annual best practices list, and is a Board Member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, where she has helped conceptualize a fund aimed at elevating the voices of women and minorities in public policy. Eng received the New York City Mayor’s Innovator Award, the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Medal, and a Distinguished Service Award from NYU School of Law. Eng started her career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney in New York and Hong Kong.
Eng’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, A&E, NPR and Newsweek, and in the books of political, business and social science leaders, such as in John Naisbitt’s Megatrends Asia, Mary Pipher’s The Middle of Everywhere, Marie Wilson’s Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World, and Robin Morgan’s Sisterhood Is Powerful. Eng is the author of Warrior Lessons (Simon & Schuster, 1999), a memoir about empowerment and leadership, and the upcoming book, Fluency: The Art of Crossing Borders, on the complexities and opportunities of a multicultural society.
Eng is currently on the Advisory Board of the National Association of Asian American Professionals, the largest and fastest growing organization of Asian American professionals in the US and Canada, and is a founding sister of several Asian women’s leadership networks, including an Asian women’s corporate network which is now the largest in the country.
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 | | Jared Bernstein, Ph.D. | | Director, Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute
| | Phoebe Eng | | Director, Creative Counsel; Co-Founder of The Opportunity Agenda | | Tessie Guillermo | | President and CEO, Community Technology Foundation of California | | Monique Harden, Esq. | | Co-Director and Attorney, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights | | Margaret Hempel | | Vice President of Programs, American Jewish World Service | | Olati Johnson | | Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School | | Ichiro Kawachi, MD, Ph.D. | | Professor, Harvard School of Public Health | | Amber Khan | | Communications Consultant | | Kit Laybourne | | Core Faculty, The New School, Master's Program in Media Studies | | Gay McDougall | | UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues | | Marc Mauer | | Executive Director, The Sentencing Project | | Steve Montiel | | Director, USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism | | Michael Omi, Ph.D. | | Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley | | Tom Perez | | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Law | | Steve Phillips | | President, PowerPac.org | | john powell | | Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, OSU | | Susan Sandler | | President, Justice Matters Institute | | Edward Telles, Ph.D. | | Professor, UCLA | | Emily Tynes | | Communications Director, American Civil Liberties Union | | Robert West | | Executive Director, Working Films |
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