Executive Editor, Forbes.com

Mr. Andelman is the current executive editor at Forbes.com.  He was previously a business editor at The New York Daily News, and a news reporter for the New York Times and CBS. He is the author of A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today.

Chief Marketing Officer, Citi

Ms. Caputo is the founder of Citi’s thriving Women and Company, a membership organization that directs financial services to women. She is also the Chief Marketing Officer for Citi and the Chief Marketing and Community Relations Officer for its Global Consumer Group.  Ms. Caputo worked at CBS and Walt Disney before joining Citi and was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s press secretary for four years during President Clinton’s tenure in office.

First Lady of New York State

Ms. Wall Spitzer is the founder and chair of Children for Children, a not-for-profit organization which creates opportunities for young people from all backgrounds to Grow Involved, volunteering their time and resources to benefit children and others, particularly by providing books and other materials to schools in under-resourced areas of New York City. Ms. Wall Spitzer began her legal career with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and then joined Chase Manhattan Bank as a member of its International Legal Group. She is a founding Co-Chair of Project Cicero, the annual New York City book drive building classroom libraries in under-resourced schools.

Former Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System

Mr. Volcker was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1979 to 1987 and former Undersecretary of the Department of the Treasury and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is Professor Emeritus of International Economic Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.  He is a co-author of Changing Fortunes: The World’s Money and the Threat to American Leadership and The United States and Japan: Cooperative Leadership for Peace and Global Prosperity and author of Triumph of Central Banking.

Wisconsin

Lt. Governor Lawton took office as Wisconsin’s 43rd lieutenant governor on January 3, 2003 and was re-elected in 2006.  She is the first woman elected Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor. Lt. Governor Lawton’s work focuses on economic development, expanding opportunities for businesses to create jobs in Wisconsin through investments in the creative and green economy sectors. She is also the chair of the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Candidate, U.S. House (WA-08)

Ms. Burner (D) is running in Washington’s 8th Congressional District.  She ran in 2006 for the same seat and received 49% of the vote. Ms. Burner is “meeting the challenge” on the issue of education; as both a mother and the daughter of a public school teacher, she knows first-hand how critical it is that our schools have high standards and help every child achieve their full potential. She supports expanding access to high quality early childhood education, smaller class sizes, better pay for good teachers and more support for college or vocational training.