News Release – For Immediate Release

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Announces Board Officers and New Board Members
 

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (January 30, 2012) – The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF) announces its 2012 Board Officers and Directors. The 2012 Officers are:

• Baxter Sharp, Chair – Attorney at Law, Sharp & Sharp, PA, Brinkley, AR; Chairman of the Board, Merchants & Planters Bank, Clarendon, AR; and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the 1st Judicial District
• Yvette Murphy-Erby, Ph.D., Chair-Elect – Director and Associate Professor, University of Arkansas School of Social Work, Fayetteville, AR
• Regan Gruber Moffitt, Secretary – Senior Associate for Public Policy, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock, AR

New Board members include:

• Jerry Adams – President and CEO, Arkansas Research Alliance, Conway, AR
• Susan Harriman – Director of Policy, Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock, AR

In addition, ten members are continuing their terms on the WRF Board:

• Phil Baldwin – President and CEO, CredAbility, Atlanta, GA
• René Bryce-Laporte – Program Manager, Skills for America’s Future, The Aspen Institute, Washington, DC
• Vicki Saviers – Former Executive Director of the Public Education Foundation of Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
• William J. Bynum – CEO, Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union, Jackson, MS
• Cynthia East, Owner, Cynthia East Fabrics, Little Rock, AR
• Andre Guerrero, Ed.D. – Director, Programs for Language Minority Students, Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock, AR
• Pledger Monk – Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Little Rock, AR
• Toyce Newton – President and CEO, Phoenix Youth & Family Services, Inc., Crossett, AR
• Lisenne Rockefeller – Little Rock, AR
• Diana Gonzales Worthen – Director, Project Teach Them All, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

About the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

For over 35 years, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation has worked to make a difference by helping to build and sustain the organizations that serve and strengthen Arkansas. Through grantmaking and strategic partnerships, we are working even harder to help close the economic and educational gaps that leave too many Arkansas families in persistent poverty. Working together, the needle can and must move from poverty to prosperity for all Arkansans. For more information on the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, go to www.wrfoundation.org.

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