Meet the Commission

The Commission is a newly established body of civic, business, and academic leaders who will select the finalists for our W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars Program.    The Inaugural Commission members include:

Kathy Ashe, Georgia State Senator

Dr. Ron Crutcher, President, Wheaton College

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research as Harvard University

Dr. Robert Franklin, President, Morehouse College

Dr. G.P. "Bud" Peterson, President, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Honorable Kasim Reed, Mayor, City of Atlanta

Dr. Lawrence Schall, President Oglethorpe University

Richard F. Smith, Chairman and CEO, Equifax, Inc.

Chris Womack, Executive Vice President, Southern Company