The Dreyfuss Initiative

Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, serves also as co-chairman of the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton.  He is the author, co-author, or editor of 35 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era.  Among them are The Lincoln Image, The Confederate Image, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Lincoln as I Knew Him, Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art, The Lincoln Family Album, Lincoln on Democracy (co-edited with Mario Cuomo), which has been published in four languages, and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President, which won a 2005 Lincoln Prize.

Bill Littlejohn is the chief executive officer of the Sharp HealthCare Foundation and senior vice president of Sharp HealthCare. In addition, Littlejohn provides fundraising counsel to the Grossmont Hospital Foundation, Coronado Hospital Foundation and all of Sharp's entities.

Prior to joining Sharp HealthCare, Littlejohn worked for 10 years with the Greenwood Company, a professional fund-raising firm. He has managed fund-raising projects for health care systems all over the United States, including Sutter Health in Northern California, Alegent Health in Nebraska and Iowa, Intermountain Health Care in Utah, Memorial Health Services in Southern California, Providence Health System in the western United States and Hawaii Pacific Health.

Dr. Jeff McCausland is the Founder and CEO of Diamonds Leadership and Strategy, LLC. 

For the past seven years Diamond6 has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations across the United States.  Participants have included the leadership teams for national education associations and large urban school districts representing hundreds of thousands of students throughout America.

Richard Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1947 and began his acting career at the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center when he was eight years old. 

He acted on television in shows such as Bewitched and The Big Valley and others for over a decade and worked in theater in Los Angeles from 1963. 

He started doing features in roles of size in the early 70s such as American Graffiti, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Jaws. 

Lenore Hawkins is a Principal at Meritas Advisors, a registered investment advisor working with high net worth families to protect and grow their life savings.  She is also the author of Elle’s Economy, a blog on investing and the global economy.

Rick Shenkman is the editor and founder of George Mason University's History News Network, a website that features articles by historians on current events. An associate professor of history at George Mason University, he can regularly be seen on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

Frank Luntz is one of the most honored communication professionals in America today. “The Nostradamus of pollsters,” said Sir David Frost, Time magazine named him one of “50 of America’s most promising leaders aged 40 and under” and he is the “hottest pollster” in America according to the Boston Globe. Frank was named one of the four “Top Research Minds” by Business Week and was a winner of the coveted Washington Post “Crystal Ball” award for being the most accurate pundit.

Deborah L. Barrow is the director of the San Diego Public Library system, which is composed of the Central Library and 35 branches in the City of San Diego. She has over 20 years experience in public service and library management, library technology, facility planning, and staff organization and development for library systems in the cities of Sunnyvale, Watsonville and Chula Vista.

Mr. George Driver is a San Diego Businessman and Native to San Diego. He brings a vast history of public service to The Dreyfuss Initiative. Mr. Driver has served on more than one half dozen non profit boards including: The Jackie Robinson YMCA, Partners for a Livable San Diego, Children’s Museum of San Diego, and Non Profit Management Solutions. He has also offered his energy and time on committees in San Diego such as, Developmental Service, and Life and Safety Departments.

Ann Cerny is a Middle School History teacher with the San Dieguito Union High School District in northern San Diego County.  She serves as History Department Chair at Earl Warren Middle School, and as the Social Studies Coordinator for the District.

Ann graduated from the University of California, San Diego with Bachelors of Arts degrees in History and in Psychology, and then received her teaching credential at University of California, Davis in 1992.