Linda Chavez
Chairman
Linda Chavez is Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity. She has published opinions and columns in newspapers across the country and appears regularly on cable news. Chavez is the author of the three books: Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation, An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal, and Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics. She has been honored by the Library of Congress as a "Living Legend" and as nominee for Secretary of Labor by President George W. Bush.
Chavez has held many appointed positions and has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. Among her appointed positions has been Chairman, National Commission on Migrant Education (1988-1992); White House Director of Public Liaison (1985); Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1983-1985); and member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1984-1986). Chavez was also the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Maryland in 1986 and was elected by the United Nations' Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U.S. Expert to the U.N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
Chavez earned her BA from the University of Colorado.
Roger Clegg
Clegg is the immediate past president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity. His work focused on legal issues arising from civil rights laws--including the regulatory impact on business and the problems in higher education created by affirmative action. Clegg has served in multiple appointed positions including Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan and Bush administrations, the second highest positions in both the Civil Rights Division (1987-91) and in the Environment and Natural Resources Division (1991-93), Assistant to the Solicitor General (1985-87), Associate Deputy Attorney General (1984-85), and Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy (1984). Clegg earned his BA from Rice University and his JD from Yale Law School.
John J. Miller
Miller is director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, national correspondent for National Review, and the founder and executive director of The College Fix. He is the author of several books including Reading Around: Journalism on Authors, Artists, and Ideas and The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football. Miller is a former vice president of the Center for Equal Opportunity and earned his BA from the University of Michigan.
Jason Riley
Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal where he has written about politics, economics, education, immigration, and social inequality for more than 20 years. He is also a frequent public speaker and provides commentary for television and radio news outlets. Mr. Riley is the author of several books including Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed, False Black Power?, and Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell.
John Agresto
Before becoming President of St John’s College in 1989, Mr. Agresto taught at the University of Toronto, Kenyon College, Duke University, Wabash College and the New School University. He also Served as Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the 1980’s, went to Iraq in 2003 as Senior Advisor for Higher Education for the new Iraqi Government. He was a trustee, chancellor, provost and dean at the American University of Iraq in the Kurdish region.
After returning from Iraq, Agresto was appointed member and chair of the New Mexico Advisory Committee on Civil Rights (2010-2018) followed by appointment as Probate Court Judge in Santa Fe, NM. He currently serves on the board of the Jack Miller Center.
He is the author or editor of over a half dozen books. His newest book is on the decline of liberal arts education, slated to come out in the summer of 2022 (Encounter Press). Agresto is a graduate of Boston College and holds a PhD from Cornell in Government.
Rosalie Pedalino Porter
Porter has advised school districts, as well as the U.S. Congress, on the education of immigrant children. She is the author of Forked Tongue: The Politics of Bilingual Education, Language and Literacy for English Learners: Grades 7-12, Four Programs of Proven Success, and American Immigrant: My Life in Three Languages. Porter has served as an expert witness in court cases on behalf of non-English-speaking children in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, and Texas. Porter earned her doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.