Advisory Board

DC Prep’s Advisory Board is comprised of highly-accomplished education, business, and philanthropic professionals – expanding the pool of talented and generous individuals who are helping DC Prep accomplish its mission.


Patty Abramson | Co-founder, Women's Growth Capital Fund

Anthony Bruce | CEO, Applied Predictive Technologies

Collette Bruce | Community Volunteer

Hadley S. Cooper | Community Volunteer

William J. Cooper | Partner, Andrews Kurth, LLP

Susan Gage | President, Susan Gage Caterers

Tom Gardner | Co-founder, The Motley Fool

Diana L. Goldberg | Philanthropist

Stephen A. Goldberg | Founder and President, The Stephen A. Goldberg Company

Cynthia Helms | Philanthropist

Judy Kirpich | CEO, Grafik Marketing Communications

Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. | Charles Drew Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine

Ruth M. Leffall | Community Volunteer

Nina Marks | President and Board Chair, Collegiate Directions, Inc; Principal, Marks Counseling Associates, LLC

Melanie Nussdorf | Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

David Pensky | Entrepreneur

Reverend Donald E. Robinson | President and Founder of Beacon House

Sharon Percy Rockefeller | President and CEO, WETA

Georgina Sanger | Senior VP Strategic Partnerships, EverFi

Robert Silberman | Chairman and CEO, Strayer Education, Inc.

C. Bowdoin Train | Managing Partner, Grosvenor Funds

Rosalie Whitlock | Executive Director, Children's Health Council, Palo Alto, California

What our Teachers are Saying

“DC Prep is the one school I know where I can have colleagues who share my educational philosophy, an organizational structure that values and supports my instructional practice, and where I can also live the best family life possible given the demands of working at a no excuses school like DC Prep.”
John Becker, 4th Grade Math Teacher