Who We Are

 

Michael Weishan ’86, Founding Executive Director

Jed Willard ’96, Executive Director for Defense of Democracy

Dr. Cynthia Koch, Director of History Programming and Historian in Residence; Former Director, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation, Inc.

2025-26 Corporate Board Members

President & Founding Executive Director: Michael Weishan, ’86 PBS Host, author, historian.
Treasurer/Clerk: Matthew H. H. Young ’12, HMS’19, HL ’18
Director: Santiago Pardo Sanchez, Adams ’16, Managing Editor, Adams Gold Coaster, MIT Sloan
Director: Jed Willard ’96, HKS’08

Alumni Advisory Council to the Foundation

2025-2026  Alumni Directors:

Douglas Carver, Adams 59, International businessman; HAA Director Emeritus
Albert Cho, Adams ’02, President and General Manager for Advanced Infrastructure Analytics, Xylem, Inc
Claire Mays, Adams ’81, Independent researcher and consultant, Institut Symlog
James Alexander Bedford ’20,  HBS ’26
Charles Hua, ’22, climate and energy policy analyst
Brian Hyun Seo ’23 FGLI Advocate and Social Worker

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The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation
Adams House, Harvard College
26 Plympton Street, Box 471
Cambridge, MA 02138

 

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