Previously, Moore was an executive at ESPN with responsibilities that included television advertising sales and business affairs for the company’s new media platforms. Moore also created programming for ESPN including “The Block Party and “Images in Black and White.” Prior to that, Moore worked as an executive at The Coca-Cola Company and Chubb Insurance.

Moore received her BA from Harvard University and her MBA from Emory University. She serves on the board of directors of The Harvard Varsity Club, the New York Opportunity Network, and the Ubuntu Education Fund. She is also a member of the Harvard Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Department of Athletics. In 2002, she was inducted into the International Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame and was a recipient of the 2005 Harlem YMCA Salute to Black Achievers in Industry award. Moore was also inducted into the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Athlete Hall of Fame in May 2007.

After graduation, Patrick spent five years teaching in New York City, before attending Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. At Loyola, she studied labor and employment law, which she practices today, and won an American Jurisprudence Award and the school’s Outstanding Graduate Award. In 1980, she graduated and was admitted to the California Bar. Over the next decades, Patrick worked at law firms in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., as well as at Harvard University. In 1995, she joined the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston, where she has worked ever since. Diane Patrick currently serves on the Boards of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, the Posse Foundation and Jane Doe, Inc. She and Governor Deval Patrick have two college-age daughters, Sarah and Katherine.

Holmes Ward is a graduate of Boston University. She serves on the national board of the United Cerebral Palsy Association, and the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center. Holmes Ward also sits on the Board of Overseers for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In addition, she is proud to be a founder and former board member of the Coalition of 100 Black Women, The Boston Chapter.

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Her work as a teacher, professor and administrator has focused on the inclusion of the African American student, culture and history from preschool to graduate school. Dr. Jones has taught in Boston Public Schools, was an administrator in the Cambridge Schools, and adjunct professor at Simmons and Wheelock Colleges and Boston University. She is a founder of METCO, and co-founded and co-directed the Roxbury-Newton Freedom School.

In the 1990's, Dr. Jones began a project chronicling the history of her family. This research has led to numerous presentations and articles, and was the basis for her play "409 Edgecombe Avenue: The House on Sugar Hill," which was staged at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2007. In 2004 she received the Human Rights Award from the Human Rights Commission of the City of Newton.

Amy is a graduate of Yale, and of Harvard Business School, where she was Co-President of the Women Students’ Association.