Board of Directors

Bill Bentley

Bill Bentley is the former president and CEO of Voices for America’s Children, the nation’s largest network of multi-issue child advocacy organizations. With more than 60 members nationwide, including DC Action for Children, Voices advocates for effective public policies to improve the lives of children at the local, state and national levels. Bill was also one of the formative leaders of the Children’s Leadership Council.

Bill began his career in public service as a juvenile probation officer in Florida. Later, as president and CEO of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, Inc., Bill led the development and implementation of local innovative demonstration programs addressing maternal and child health, child welfare, juvenile justice and family support programs.

He has served as executive director of the Florida Governor’s Commission on Community Service and on the senior management teams at the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Points of Light Foundation.

Bill earned his master’s of social work from Florida State University. He and his wife live in Silver Spring, and have two daughters and two grandchildren.

HyeSook Chung

Executive Director

For the past 15 years, HyeSook Chung has worked to improve the lives of children through direct service, advocacy and program management. HyeSook has worked for various nonprofit organizations focusing on the areas of child care, early childhood development, welfare-to-work and school readiness.

In the fall of 2007, she began consulting for Washington Area Women's Foundation to support the Early Care and Education Funders Collaborative and the DC State Board of Education. While supporting the Collaborative, she worked with corporations and foundations to design and implement goals, programmatic design and grantmaking strategies for the Collaborative. For the DC State Board of Education, she conducted a preliminary Birth to Three Needs Assessment.

Before beginning a career in consulting, HyeSook worked at the National Association of Counties managing two grant-funded educational and technical assistance projects in the areas of early childhood development and school readiness. In addition, she coordinated activities for the presidential task force on early childhood development, which included working with a special task force of county commissioners.

Earlier in her career, much of HyeSook's work was training and assisting family support workers, home visitors and outreach workers in community-based programs in the greater Boston area. In addition, HyeSook worked with the Head Start Quality Improvement Center and the Early Head Start Resource Center supporting the Early Head Start programs throughout the country.

HyeSook serves on numerous boards focused on young children, including the DC T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Advisory Board, the Every Child Ready Advisory Board of the AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation, Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Council, Voices for America's Children Member Leadership Council, and the Annie E. Casey’s KIDS COUNT steering committee.

As a volunteer, HyeSook is extremely active at her children's DCPS school.

She is the proud mother of Lindsay and Brady.  

J.R. Clark

Chair

J.R. Clark is a partner in the Public Finance Practice Group at Squire Sanders. He focuses his practice on public finance. He has extensive experience as bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel on a variety of tax exempt and taxable borrowings including revenue bonds for the benefit of 501(c)(3) organizations and corporations operating in enterprise zones, governmental obligations structured as tax increment financings, certificates of participation and payments in lieu of taxes. He also represents his clients’ interests before legislative and other governmental bodies. He was named part of the Legal Elite for 2009 by the readership of Washington SmartCEO.

Before joining Squire Sanders, J.R. served in the executive office of the mayor of Washington, DC as director for council affairs in the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, where he advised the mayor on all legislation before the District of Columbia Council. In this capacity, he oversaw the implementation of the mayor’s legislative agenda. 

Before working with the mayor, J.R. served as assistant general counsel in the District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer. There he worked with the legislative branch on the District of Columbia’s budget and finances. 

J.R. is a member of the National Bar Association, National Association of Bond Lawyers and the American Bar Association. He serves on the Executive Committee of the DC Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of Trustees of Graduate School USA. J.R. serves on the boards of several local organizations including the American Red Cross National Capital Region and Friends of Choice in Urban Schools, and on the Advisory Board of the African American Real Estate Professionals and Jumpstart.

Jacquelyn L. Lendsey

Jacquelyn Lendsey has two decades of service managing national and local nonprofits, many of which focused on service to and advocacy on behalf of children, youth, women and families. More recently, she served as vice president for programs and communications at the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation. Previously Jacquelyn led national public policy and advocacy efforts for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Jacquelyn has served on the Boards of Directors of Mentors, Inc., Davis Memorial Goodwill and the National Minority AIDS Council. She is also a former member of the national board of directors of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She currently serves on the board of the Consumer Health Foundation and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. She is a member of Leadership Greater Washington.

A native Washingtonian, Jacquelyn received her master’s of education from Howard University.

Erica Lurie-Hurvitz

Secretary

Erica Lurie-Hurvitz is the director of public policy at ZERO TO THREE, a national nonprofit organization supporting professionals, policy makers and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. She is responsible for leading the organization’s federal and state policy and advocacy work on issues affecting vulnerable infants, toddlers and their families. Her expertise includes early care and education and child welfare policy. Prior to joining ZERO TO THREE in 1996, Erica did development work for the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a national organization focused on increasing opportunities for people in low-income communities.

Erica earned her J.D. from Georgetown University. She lives in the District with her husband, John, and three incredible children, Arthur, Asa and Ruby.

Warren Romine

Vice Chair

Warren Romine is a Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Washington, DC office, where he is a member of the Aerospace Defense Government (ADG) Group. His responsibilities include leading acquisition support assignments, fairness opinion valuations, and divestiture and sale advisory engagements.  

Warren has advised Fortune 500 corporations, middle-market public companies and privately held businesses. He has led several cross-border transactions with Canadian and European companies. His experience includes advisory assignments for government contractors, such as Raytheon, M7 Aerospace, and DME, and aviation-related companies, such as PAS Technologies, Avborne Heavy Maintenance and DynaBil.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Romine worked in the investment banking divisions at Jefferies Quarterdeck and Merrill Lynch & Co. and had advisory assignments with DNE Systems, Esterline Technologies, Engineered Support Systems, Smiths Group PLC, Wescam, BBA Group PLC and Indal Technologies.

Warren earned his M.B.A. from Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in accounting from Morehouse College, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Warren serves as a director for RELM Wireless, a developer and manufacturer of communication devices for federal, state and municipal agencies. He is registered with FINRA as a General Securities Principal (Series 7, 24 and 63).

Nicole Wade

Treasurer

Nicole Wade is a Senior Compliance Specialist for Fannie Mae where she performs risk assessments, testing, and reviews for legal/regulatory compliance, MBS Trust compliance and enterprise anti-fraud controls.  Prior to joining Fannie Mae, she spent several years at IBM as a Financial Analyst and Business Controls Advisor. 

Nicole earned an MBA in Finance from The George Washington University and a B.S. degree in Human Development from Howard University.  She is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and is working toward completing her Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) designation.  She and her husband Derrick live in Bowie, MD with their son Justin.

Lodie White

Governance Chair

Lodie White is an associate at the law firm Patton Boggs, LLP. She advises clients in the electricity sector on compliance with federal statutes and regulations. Ms. White also advises clients on energy policy, sustainability development and climate change, with a special emphasis on renewable and alternative energy development, generation, and distribution.

Before joining Patton Boggs, Lodie was a staff attorney at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), where she worked in the Office of the General Counsel and the Office of Enforcement.

At Patton Boggs, Lodie also advises foreign sovereigns on U.S. foreign policy and provides strategic advice on how best to enhance their relationships and advocate their policy objectives with the U.S. government. Specifically, she focuses on human rights issues and energy development.

Lodie serves on the board of directors of the Foundation of the Energy Law Journal and as a trustee of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. She earned her J.D. at American University and her M.B.A. from Wayne State University.

Emeritus

Diane Bernstein, Marion Guggenheim, Cynthia McGrath, Elizabeth Siegel, Clarice Dibble Walker, Susan Zox-Smith

Past Chairs

Jon Fernandez, Gregory McCarthy, Diane Bernstein, Deborah Both, Maureen Lewis

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