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communications services holding company. Ms. Frank began her career as a strategic planning analyst at the Walt Disney Company. A leader in education philanthropy, Ms. Frank serves on the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Lower East Side and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Bronx. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund and on the Steering Committee of New York Presbyterian Hospital’s New Leaders Group. Beth Nash has a longstanding record of promoting positive social change through scholarly work and philanthropic pursuits. She is particularly interested in championing leadership roles for traditionally underrepresented groups including women and girls. Ms. Nash was a founding board member of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project. In 2015, A Better Balance presented her with a “Distinguished Leadership Award” in recognition of her founding the NYU School of Law’s Carr Center for Reproductive Justice. Ms. Nash co-founded and served as principal of her own investment firm. She had previously worked at Goldman Sachs and, subsequently, at CREF. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds graduate degrees from Columbia Business School and NYU. Troy McKenzie is Dean of NYU School of Law. He has also served as faculty co-director of the Institute of Judicial Administration (IJA) and of the Center on Civil Justice. His research and teaching interests include bankruptcy, civil procedure, complex litigation, and the federal
courts. From 2015–17, he took a leave of absence from NYU to serve in the U.S. Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Dean McKenzie earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and a law degree from NYU, where he was an executive editor of the Law Review . After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court.
FORMER BOARD MEMBER
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan served as Vice President of the Advantage Testing Foundation’s original Board of Trustees from 2007–2009, a position she resigned upon her nomination for Solicitor General by President Barack Obama. Prior to her nomination, she was the Dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University. In addition to her service as a Trustee of the Foundation, Justice Kagan was an original partner of the Advantage Testing Foundation’s Trials law school preparation program. Her contributions in shaping that program will continue to benefit outstanding scholars of underrepresented backgrounds for many years to come. Justice Kagan is a summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School.
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