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Public Agenda Foundation
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Public Agenda Foundation "was founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1975." According to their website "Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help:
- "American leaders better understand the public's point of view.
- "Citizens know more about critical policy issues so they can make thoughtful, informed decisions." [1]
- Daniel Yankelovich Chairman, Co-Founder
- Lloyd Morrisett Chairman, Executive Committee
- Ruth A. Wooden President and CEO of Public Agenda
Directors
- Alice S. Huang Senior Councilor for External Relations, California Institute of Technology
- Bobby R. Inman Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired)
- David Mathews President, Charles F. Kettering Foundation
- Judith Davidson Moyers President, Public Affairs Television, Inc.
- Peter G. Peterson Chairman, Blackstone Group
- Lois Dickson Rice Guest Scholar in the Economics Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
- Alice M. Rivlin Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- Max Stier President, Partnership for Public Service
- Deborah Wadsworth Senior Advisor, Public Agenda
Members Emeritus
- Sidney Harman Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Harman International Industries, Inc.
- Frank Stanton Former President, CBS
Policy Review Board
- Floyd Abrams Cahill Gordon & Reindel
- John Brademas President Emeritus, New York University
- Harold Brown Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Robert A. Burnett Des Moines, Iowa
- Daniel Callahan The Hastings Center
- Lisle C. Carter, Jr. Washington, DC
- Lee Cullum Dallas Morning News
- Edwin Dorn LBJ School of Govenment, University of Texas
- William D. Eberle Manchester Associates
- Marian Wright Edelman Children's Defense Fund
- Chester E. Finn, Jr. Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
- Norton Garfinkle Oxford Management Corporation
- William Graustein William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
- James F. Hoge, Jr. Foreign Affairs Magazine
- Gerald Holton Harvard University
- Shirley Hufstedler Morrison & Foerster
- Vernon Loucks, Jr. Aethena Group LLC
- Gilbert C. Maurer The Hearst Corporation
- Ruben F. Mettler TRW Inc.
- Newton N. Minow Sidley and Austin
- Paul Ostergard Junior Achievement International
- Wendy D. Puriefoy The Public Education Network
- William Ruder William Ruder, Inc.
- Sophie Sa Panasonic Foundation
- Hershel B. Sarbin Hershel B. Sarbin Assoc.
- Robert Y. Shapiro Columbia University
- Adele Simmons Chicago Metropolis 2020 Group
- Lester Thurow Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Uri Treisman Dana Center, University of Texas
- Sidney Weinberg, Jr. Goldman Sachs
- William Winter Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis
