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College Summit : Leadership

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Donna Fleming
Executive Director, National Capital Region

Donna Fleming is Executive Director of the National Capital Region of College Summit, where she has overall responsibility for the region’s college assessment program initiatives; philanthropic, corporate, and individual development; establishment and cultivation of relationships with community leaders, financial management, development and management of the Advisory Board; and strategic planning. Prior to joining College Summit, she was a Corporate Officer/Senior Vice President of Operations for Zimmerman Associates, Inc. from 1990 to 2006. Fleming has extensive executive, operations, and business development experience leading large project teams and multi-million dollar, multi-task federal contracts.

Her volunteer and community involvement includes LEAD VIRGINIA, Class of 2005, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Alumni Committee; Leadership Fairfax, Inc., Class of 1999 and Past Chair of the Board of Directors; Shelter House, Inc., past President of the Board of Directors and current member of the Advisory Board; and the Junior League of Northern Virginia, Sustainer, and current Advisory Board member. She is also appointed to the Fairfax County Human Services Council and currently serves as the Vice Chair. Fleming has been recognized as a contributor to community services with the following honors and awards: Leadership Fairfax, Inc., Torchbearer Award-Member of the Year (2002) and Community Trustee Award-Individual (2001); Human Services Coalition, Outstanding Individual Award (2001); Shelter House, Inc., Volunteer of the Year Award (1998) and The Giving Hope Award (2004).

She is a M.S.A candidate, Organizational Development at Trinity University in Washington, DC (expected 2008); she has completed graduate courses in Business Administration at Frostburg State University and holds a B.A., Business Administration, from Trinity College in Washington, DC.

J.B. Schramm
Founder and Executive Director
J.B. Schramm is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of College Summit, Inc. He is a graduate of Yale University (1986) and Harvard Divinity School (1989). Schramm founded College Summit while directing a Teen Center in the basement of a Washington, D.C. low-income housing project.

For his skill in conceiving the idea and creating an effective organization to implement it, Schramm was one of the first four North Americans named to the Ashoka Fellowship for social entrepreneurs (2000), and received the highest award in the field of college access from the National Association for College Admission Counseling (2001). In 2002, Schramm won the Manhattan Institute Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2003, J.B. was profiled in The New York Times, won the Skoll Foundation Social Innovator Award, was named one of the top 20 social capitalists in the United States by Fast Company Magazine and Monitor Group, and won the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award.

This year, Schramm is profiled in David Bornstein’s book, How To Change The World, and most recently has spoken about his organization at The University of Chicago, at The Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern, and at New York University. In addition, Schramm won the “First Decade Award” from the Harvard Divinity School in 2000 and was named the Graduate Public Service Fellowship from Echoeing Green (1997-2001).

He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Lauren, and their two boys, Jacob and Luke.

Charles (Chuck) Harris III
Board Chair

Charles (Chuck) Harris III is Managing General Partner of Harris Capital Partners, L.P., a family investment partnership. Harris retired in November 2002 as Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he served most recently as co-head of the High Technology Department in investment banking. He also serves as a director of Scholastic Corporation, Critical Power, Inc. and IP Value Management, Inc. He is a director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc., which administers the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, where he chairs The Exeter Initiatives, Exeter’s first comprehensive capital campaign in over twenty years. Harris serves as chair of College Summit’s Proof Fund and as a member of the New York City Advisory Board of Teach for America. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.

James W. Dyke Jr.
Chair, National Capital Region Site Board

James W. Dyke Jr. is a Partner at McGuireWoods, a law firm. He previously served as Virginia’s Secretary of Education under Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, and as Domestic Policy Advisor to former Vice President Walter Mondale.

Dyke is an active leader in the Northern Virginia business community having served as chairman of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the Northern Virginia Business Roundtable; chairman of the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation; and chairman of the Emerging Business Forum, an organization focused on enhancing minority and women entrepreneurs’ access to capital. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Washington Gas Holding.

Dyke has served or is serving on various commissions and committees including the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV), the Commission to Restructure Virginia's Tax Structure, the Board of Directors of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia. He is a frequent speaker on educational, political, and legal issues.

In 2007, he was included in Washingtonian magazine's list of "150 Most Powerful People" in the Washington region. In 2006, he was a finalist for the Washington Business Journal's "Top Washington Lawyer in State and Local Lobbying." He also won the J. Michael Brown award from DuPont for his accomplishments in diversity, recruiting and mentoring in the legal profession.