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Cynthia Robbins, Executive Director, See Forever Foundation and Maya Angelou Public Charter School
Cynthia Robbins is the Executive Director of See Forever Foundation and Maya Angelou Public Charter School (MAPCS). Consistent with her career of more than 15 years of service, her current role is to help SFF/MAPCS achieve their mission to create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional high schools, can reach their potential. Cynthia works to create opportunities for all interested individuals and organizations to discover ways that they too could contribute to this mission and become involved with SFF/MAPCS. She has previously served as a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, adjunct professor of law, consultant, and manager in nonprofits dedicated to advocacy, education, leadership support, and organizational development. Robbins has a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Stanford Law School. She has consistently been a committed civic participant, having founded the East Palo Alto Community Law Project while a Stanford Law Student. Similarly, Cynthia also currently chairs the Board of Trustees for the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia; is a board member for the Historic Lincoln Theatre on U Street, the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles, DC Vote (an organization seeking voting representation in Congress for DC residents); and she has also joined the MAPCS Board.
 David
Domenici
Co-Founder and Chair, See Forever Foundation
David Domenici is the executive director of the See Forever
Foundation and the co-founder of the Maya Angelou Public Charter
School, which is operated by the foundation. He is a 1992 graduate
of Stanford Law School. He served for eight years as the volunteer
director of DCWorks, a summer, pre-college program for at-risk
teens from DC, Philadelphia, and New York. His work experience
includes one year of teaching school in Washington, DC, an internship
at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia,
two years in finance on Wall Street, and three years in general
practice at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
Domenici is a 1998 Echoing Green Fellow, a member of the 1998-99
Washington Post Principals Leadership Institute, and a 2002
Ashoka Fellow.
 James
Forman
Co-founder, See Forever Foundation, and Chair, Maya Angelou Public Charter School
James Forman grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where he graduated
from Franklin D. Roosevelt High School. After earning his
undergraduate degree from Brown University, he received
a law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as an
editor for the Yale Law Journal. Forman clerked
for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Upon completing
his Supreme Court clerkship, he joined the Public Defender
Service in Washington, DC, where he developed a keen interest
in juvenile justice and the challenges facing young people
and their families in the inner city. While working in Washington,
he helped to found and build an education and job training
project for children in the juvenile justice system, a program
that evolved into the Maya Angelou Public Charter School,
for which he continues to serve as Board Chairman.
Forman is now applying his expertise in law, juvenile justice,
education, and the challenges facing families and children
in the inner city to a series of writing projects. His writing
will explore solutions to the political, economic, and cultural
problems that block the successful reform of public education.
He will alsoand examine the role charter schools might play
not only in rebuilding public education but alsoas a mechanism
for the development of inner-city communities.
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