[Front row: Heather Comer Yun, Furman S. McDonald, Fredrick P. Cerise, Odette C. Bolano, David L. Coleman (former member).] [Back row: Rajeev Jain, Reginald Tucker Seeley (former member), Irving Washington, Asher A. Tulsky, Bruce Leff, Yul D. Ejnes (former member), Margaret Flinter.] [Not pictured: Erin Fuse Brown, Ali M. Khan, Robert O. Roswell, Richard M. Wardrop, III]
Bruce Leff, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is the Director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Community and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
His research focuses on novel models of care delivery for older adults and issues related to multi-morbidity, risk prediction, performance measurement, and quality measurement and improvement, with an emphasis on home and community-based models of care. He has authored more than 175 peer-reviewed publications, 35 book chapters, and 2 textbooks on home-based medical care. Dr. Leff has served on multiple National Quality Forum, National Committee for Quality Assurance, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Technical Expert Panels. He is past-director of the JHOME (home-based primary care) Program at Johns Hopkins, cares for patients in the acute, ambulatory and home settings, and is an award-winning teacher and mentor.
He the past-Chair of the Geriatric Medicine Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and past-Chair of the ABIM Council. He is also past-President of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians, where he helped develop and implement the Independence at Home Demonstration (section 3024 of the Affordable Care Act). He is a past member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Leff received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine, completed residency in primary care internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and a fellowship in geriatric medicine and gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and served as a medical officer in the US Army.
As of June 2026, Dr. Leff reported the following external relationships:
- Aligned Health Group, without compensation
- Honor/Home Instead, advisory board member, with compensation
- Dispatch Health, clinical advisor, with compensation
- Kenes, planning committee member, with compensation
- West Health Institute, consultant, with compensation
- Pager, advisory board member, with compensation
- Monogram Health, advisory board member, with compensation
Heather Comer Yun, MD, MACP, FIDSA, a board certified internist and infectious disease specialist, currently serves as the Chief of Staff at South Texas Veterans Health Care System. She is a Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UTHealth San Antonio. She is a retired United States Air Force colonel and previously served as the Deputy Commander for Medical Services at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Her active areas of investigation target infections in vulnerable military populations, including combat casualties and basic military trainees. Her research has focused on multidrug-resistant bacteria, infection prevention and hospital epidemiology, travel- and deployment-related infections, and respiratory viral infections. She has served as Medical Director of Infection Prevention at two referral military hospitals and while deployed to Afghanistan.
Dr. Yun is on the Board of Directors for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has previously served on the IDWeek Program Committee, the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Board, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has received numerous teaching and leadership awards.
Dr. Yun earned her bachelor’s degree at Colorado College and her medical degree at Yale University. She completed residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium.
As of June 2026, Dr. Yun reported the following external relationship:
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, board member, with reimbursement for expenses
Margaret Flinter, APRN, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, is the Senior Vice President and Clinical Director of the Moses Weitzman Health System and its Community Health Center, Inc. She has been a board-certified family nurse practitioner since 1980.
She earned her BSN from the University of Connecticut, MSN from Yale University, and PhD from the University of Connecticut.
After her initial years of practice in public health nursing, Dr. Flinter completed her MSN in community health/ family nurse practitioner track at the Yale School of Nursing. A National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholar, she joined the Community Health Center (CHCI) in 1980 as a primary care provider and its first nurse practitioner. She fully embraced its founding (1972) commitment to health care as a right, not a privilege, and its zest for innovation, growth, and collaboration. At CHCI, she has held both clinical and executive leadership roles as she co-led its growth from a single site to a statewide organization and one of the largest FQHCs in the U.S. In 2023, CHCI created the Moses-Weitzman Health System as the parent organization of CHCI as well as three other subsidiary organizations, each created by CHCI as an innovation to address specific challenges in health care (Community eConsult Network (CECN), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA) and the Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers (CAPP)).
She has led local, state and national initiatives focused on improving access to the highest quality primary care, particularly for underserved and key populations. In 2005, Dr. Flinter established the Weitzman Center, now known as the Weitzman Institute, as the research, innovation, and training arm of CHCI, and she currently serves as senior faculty of the Institute. One of her initial projects at the Weitzman Center was the development and launch (2007) of a model of formal postgraduate residency and fellowship training for new nurse practitioners. Now a national model, Dr. Flinter serves as the Chairperson of the Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers, which accredits and advocates for NP and NP/PA postgraduate training programs. She has served as PI/co-PI on numerous funded initiatives with a current focus on clinical workforce development, improving maternity outcomes, and optimizing virtual care. Dr. Flinter is also the co-host of “Conversations on Health Care,” a radio show and podcast about health reform, innovation and policy.
Dr. Flinter was the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship from 2002-2005. In 2021, she was honored with Yale University’s Jefferson Award for public service. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
As of June 2026, Dr. Flinter reported the following external relationship:
- Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers, chairperson, no compensation
Fred Cerise, MD, MPH, has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland Health since 2014. His previous roles include the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the Vice President for Health Affairs and Medical Education of the Louisiana State University System.
Fred holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Notre Dame and earned his Medical Degree at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and earned a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University School of Public Health.
He served as a Commissioner on the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, and he serves on the board of KFF.
As of July 2026, Dr. Cerise reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Cerise serves as a board member for the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- KFF, board member, with reimbursement for travel expenses
- Parkland Community Health Plan, board member, without compensation
- Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, board member, without compensation
- Parkland Foundation; board member, without compensation
- Teaching Hospitals of Texas, board member, without compensation
- Jubilee Park Community Center, Dallas, without compensation
Odette C. Bolano, BSN, MHA, FACHE, is a seasoned CEO and health care strategist with more than 35 years of experience leading large-scale health systems through strategic partnerships, acquisitive growth, and adjacent growth strategies. As a nurse executive, she excels in building high-performing teams and executing business strategies that deliver transformative health care solutions to local communities.
Ms. Bolano is a recognized advisor to health care executives, known for driving strategies that enhance community health and well-being. With a strong background as a clinical operating leader, she has held executive roles in both for-profit and nonprofit health systems, including Columbia/HCA, Ascension Health, Trinity Health, and Kaiser Permanente.
With a proven track record in business development, change management, and clinically integrated network development, Ms. Bolano has led multi-million-dollar operational improvements in clinical quality, productivity, workforce management, and clinical service standardization. As a CEO, she has successfully managed health systems in Texas, Arizona, California, Idaho, and Oregon with operating revenues of $1-3 billion. During her tenure at Trinity Health, she led major initiatives including the virtual Connect Care and TogetherSafe programs, and oversaw six hospitals, two freestanding emergency departments, and 13 Joint Ventures.
Ms. Bolano is actively engaged in her community, currently serving on the boards of the ABIM Foundation, the Carol Emmott Foundation, IDACORP and Idaho Power Company, and Idaho Leaders United. She previously served on the board of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, where she was Chairperson from 2023 to 2024.
Ms. Bolano holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Texas Christian University and a master’s in healthcare administration from the University of Houston, Clear Lake. She is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association and the International Women’s Forum.
As of June 2026, Ms. Bolano reported the following external relationships:
- IDACORP and Idaho Power Company, board member, with compensation
- Carol Emmott Foundation, board member, no compensation
- Idaho Leaders United, board member, no compensation
Erin C. Fuse Brown, JD, MPH, is a leading expert in health law and policy. Her research focuses on the intersection of health care finance and delivery and administrative law. She has studied health care consolidation, health care costs, health reform, private equity in health care, Medicare Advantage payment policy, consumer protection, surprise medical bills, federalism and state health policy and ERISA preemption. Ms. Brown is one of five authors for the leading law textbook Health Law, published in 2022 by West Academic. Her work has been published in leading legal and health policy publications, including Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Hastings Law Journal, Harvard Journal on Legislation, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, Health Affairs Forefront, Annals of Internal Medicine, Milbank Quarterly, American Journal of Managed Care, Journal of Health Policy, Politics & Law, AMA Journal of Ethics, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and the American Journal of Public Health, among others.
Before coming to Brown, Ms. Brown was the Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at the Georgia State University College of Law. During her leadership, the Center for Law Health & Society was ranked the #1 health law program in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Before that, Ms. Brown taught at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she was a visiting assistant professor and visiting fellow in ethics and health policy with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. Previously she practiced in the health care group of the San Francisco office of Ropes & Gray LLP and clerked for Judge Alan C. Kay on the U.S. District Court in the District of Hawaii.
Ms. Brown received a JD, magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center and a MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. While in law and public health schools, she was an editor of The Georgetown Law Journal, a Greenwall Student Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy, and a senior researcher for The Center for Law and the Public’s Health. She was born and raised in Hawai`i and received a B.A, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in studio art.
As of June 2026, Ms. Brown reported the following external relationships:
- National Academy for State Health Policy, consultant, with compensation
- New England Journal of Medicine, advisory board member, with compensation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, advisory board member, with compensation
- Georgetown University Center for Health Insurance Reform, consultant, with compensation
- Onpoint Health Data, board member, no compensation
Rajeev Jain, MD, FACP, FASGE, AGAF, is a board certified gastroenterologist who has been in private practice in Dallas, Texas since 1999. He is a partner at Texas Digestive Disease Consultants. He served as Chief of Gastroenterology at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas from 2000-2020.
Dr. Jain is a former Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors. He served on the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Governing Board as a Clinical Councilor and Chair of the AGA Practice Management and Economics Committee. He has participated in clinical guideline development at both the AGA and American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), where he served on the Standards of Practice Committee from 2008-2010. Additionally, Dr. Jain was a member of the task force that created the AGA colonoscopy bundle framework, and was co-Director of the GI Outlook 2013 Practice Management Course co-sponsored by the AGA and ASGE. Dr. Jain is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, AGA and ASGE. Dr. Jain is a member of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees.
Dr. Jain received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He completed his residency training in internal medicine and fellowship in gastroenterology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
As of June 2026, Dr. Jain reported the following external relationship:
- BookendAI, advisory board, without compensation
Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP, is the Chief Medical Officer - Medicare at Aetna/CVS Health. Prior to that, he was the Chief Medical Officer, Value Based Care Strategy at Oak Street Health, where he led efforts in managed care strategy and operations, clinical design and public policy. Dr. Khan joined Oak Street Health in 2019 as Executive Medical Director of the Heartland Division and continues to practice general internal medicine.
Prior to Oak Street, he served as CareMore Health's Clinical Design Officer and in leadership roles at Iora Health.
Dr. Khan serves on the clinical faculty of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine and is a Director of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Internal Medicine Specialty Board and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. Dr. Khan was recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Emerging Leaders in 2021 and Crain’s Chicago Business’ Notable Executives of Color in Health Care in 2022. He is a fellow of the California Health Care Foundation and Leadership Greater Chicago.
Dr. Khan completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and VCU’s Medical College of Virginia, earning joint M.D. and M.P.P. degrees as a Harvard Public Service Fellow, and VCU’s B.S./M.D. Guaranteed Admissions Program in Medicine.
As of June 2026, Dr. Khan reported the following external relationships:
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Director, IM Specialty Board, with compensation
- AcademyHealth, Director, without compensation
- Better Medicare Alliance, Director, without compensation
Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP, is a board-certified internist and an Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He serves as Director of The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership, and Associate Director of the Cornell Health Policy Center, where he leads the Health Policy Insight Panel, a national survey of distinguished policy scholars that provides timely analysis of key issues shaping U.S. health care.
Dr. Khullar’s research focuses on how medical care is organized, financed, and delivered. He uses qualitative, quantitative, and survey-based methods to study topics such as value-based payment, health care consolidation, and the changing structure of physician practice. He has received large research grants from both federal agencies and private foundations and has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, including many in leading publications such as JAMA, Health Affairs, and The New England Journal of Medicine.
In addition to his clinical and academic work, Dr. Khullar is a contributing writer at The New Yorker magazine, where he explores the ethical, technological, and policy issues changing medicine and public health. His essays have examined subjects ranging from artificial intelligence and medical innovation to the corporatization of health care and the future of the medical profession. His writing was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025.
Dr. Khullar earned his medical degree at the Yale School of Medicine and completed his medical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He also received a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. He has been recognized by the National Academy of Medicine as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine, the National Minority Quality Forum as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health, and FASPE with the 2019 Distinguished Fellow Award for Ethical Leadership.
As of June 206, Dr. Khullar reported no external relationships.
Furman McDonald, MD, MPH, a board-certified internist, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the ABIM Foundation. Dr. McDonald was the former ABIM Senior Vice President for Academic and Medical Affairs from 2014 to 2024. Prior to joining ABIM, Dr. McDonald served as Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine and Residency Program Director at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, one of the nation’s largest internal medicine residencies. While at the Mayo Clinic, he led the program's participation in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME’s) Educational Innovations Project, which investigated many concepts that would eventually become part of the Next Accreditation System. Since joining ABIM, he has continued his role in patient care and GME as an attending physician of the J. Edwin Wood Clinic and faculty of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.
As a longtime member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), Dr. McDonald chaired the APDIM Survey Committee from 2007 to 2011, leading the development of longitudinally tracked surveys addressing areas of importance in GME. He was a member of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RC-IM) during the transition to the Next Accreditation System and continued on the RC-IM as ABIM’s Ex Officio member during his tenure as SVP for Academic and Medical Affairs.
The focus of Dr. McDonald's professional career has been the training of internal medicine residents and fellows to provide better care to patients by incorporating the best evidence available for both medical care and medical education. A well-respected leader in the field of GME and medical education research, Dr. McDonald has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed publications. During his tenure as Program Director, he was recognized with the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine Diversity Champion award for his work increasing the numbers of women and those underrepresented in medicine in its residencies and fellowships. He also co-founded the Mayo International Health Program, which has subsequently funded hundreds of trainees to pursue educational rotations caring for medically underserved populations in international settings. Dr. McDonald continues to support this work.
He earned an undergraduate degree in physics with highest distinction (grade point average) and with highest honors (based on his thesis in atomic collision research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He went on to train as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute/National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Scholar at NIH’s Bethesda campus. He earned his medical degree from Mayo Medical School and completed an internal medicine internship on the Osler Medical Service of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he also served as Chief Resident. He later earned a master of public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, while working as a full-time hospitalist at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. McDonald attained the rank of Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Having received many awards for medical education, in particular the teaching of the physical exam, in 2019, Dr. McDonald received the Alliance for Academic Medicine Special Recognition Award “…presented to an individual who has contributed most to helping the Alliance meet its mission which ‘promotes the advancement and professional development of its members who prepare the next generation of internal medicine physicians and leaders through education, research, engagement, and collaboration.’”
Dr. McDonald has been certified in Internal Medicine by ABIM continuously since 2000. In addition to being a longtime, proud member of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and APDIM, he is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
As of July 2023, Dr. Furman reported reported the following external relationships:
Work as an author or editor for the following companies, with compensation as listed below:
Mayo Clinic Scientific Press, receiving compensation as an author, paid to Mayo International Health Program.
Dr. McDonald also reported that he is an American Board of Internal Medicine Ex-Officio Member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine. He is also an Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates/Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Graduates Committee Member.
Robert Roswell, MD, FACP, FACC, is a leader in advancing equity and inclusion in medicine, including influential studies and talks focused on improving clinical decision-making skills to advance health equity.
As Associate Dean for Engagement and Excellence, and Professor of Cardiology and Science Education, he oversees recruitment initiatives, pipeline programs and innovative and enhanced medical curricula to build towards health equity and inclusion at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Dr. Roswell received his certification as a Health Care Executive for Diversity and Inclusion from the Association of American Medical Colleges. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and chaired its inaugural Equity Committee. He was the inaugural co-chair of the Critical Care Cardiology member section of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and is a member of ACC’s Health Equity Committee.
As a Co-Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health, in New York City, he is devoted to providing high-quality, acute cardiac care to patients with cultural humility. Dr. Roswell’s educational and clinical areas of focus are cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock and acute cardiovascular care.
His medical degree was conferred with honors from New York University School of Medicine where he completed residency and chief residency. He went on to cardiology fellowship at Georgetown University School of Medicine/Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease.
As of June 2026, Dr. Roswell reported no external relationships.
Asher A. Tulsky, MD, is a board certified internist. He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He has expertise in health and wellness coaching and is active in the professional development of early and mid-career faculty.
Previously, he was Associate Program Director at the University of Pittsburgh Internal Medicine Residency program, directed their community-based residency program, established and directed the International Scholars Program for gifted and accomplished international medical graduates pursuing academic medicine careers and was the principal consultant in a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the Teine Keijinkai Hospital in Sapporo, Japan, in establishing a U.S.-modeled internal medicine residency program.
Dr. Tulsky is on the board of the American Board of Family Medicine. He is also the former chair of the ABIM Council and of the ABIM Internal Medicine Specialty Board and served for eight years on the ABIM Internal Medicine Board Exam Committee.
Dr. Tulsky earned his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School in Illinois, completed internal medicine residency training at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, also in Chicago, and fellowship in general internal medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.
As of June 2026, Dr. Tulsky reported the following external relationship:
- American Board of Family Medicine, Director, with compensation
Richard M. Wardrop, III, MD, MACP, is a career clinician and educator and the Chief Medical Officer at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) Healthcare, where he is also a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics. Previously, Dr. Wardrop was Program Director of the Internal Medicine Program and Vice Chair of Academic Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He also led the top-rated Combined Med-Peds Residency at the University of North Carolina, was founding faculty at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and founding Associate Dean for Biomedical Affairs at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Throughout his career, he has practiced both as an Internal Medicine specialist and Pediatrician. He was recognized by the American College of Physicians (ACP) as one of America's top 10 hospitalists in 2018 and was awarded Mastership in the ACP in 2024, the College’s highest honor.
He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics. He is the Chair of the ABIM Internal Medicine Board and serves on the ABIM Council.
Dr. Wardrop has held several national leadership positions within ACP, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He has served as Chair of the Council of Early Career Physicians and as a member of the ACP Board of Regents. Within AAIM, he has served on the AAIM Education Committee and the AAIM Graduate Medical Education Funding Task Force and chaired the AAIM Faculty Development Committee. Within AAP, Dr. Wardrop was a member of the Section of Medicine and Pediatrics Executive Council from 2015 to 2018.
Dr. Wardrop attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, graduating in 1994 summa cum laude, with honors, in biology before graduating from the Ohio State University with a doctoral degree in molecular virology and immunology in 2000 and his medical degree cum laude in 2002. He completed combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency and served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As of June 2026, Dr. Wardrop reported no external relationships.
Irving Washington is Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the Health Misinformation and Trust Initiative at KFF, where he leads a new initiative focused on identifying health misinformation to improve understanding of critical health news and research and build trust among communities.
Before joining KFF, Mr. Washington was the CEO of the Online News Association (ONA), one of the world’s largest membership organizations for digital journalists. At ONA, he led efforts to build a foundation for journalism’s future by leveraging the power of new media technologies to raise up the next generation of diverse media leaders, which doubled the organization in size, scope, and reach. His leadership also advanced the mandate for protecting the integrity of online news.
He began his career at the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, where he focused on improving internal systems to address equity gaps. Later, Mr. Washington advocated for black journalists working at the National Association of Black Journalists as part of a broader effort to shape diversity and inclusion in the media.
Mr. Washington is an advisor to the American Journalism Project, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Internews, and the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He’s also active in ASAE as a Fellow, a designation reserved for the nation’s top one percent of association executives, and a Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP) Scholar.
He’s participated in the prestigious Punch Sulzberger Media Executive Leadership Program through Columbia University and served as an Executive Fellow through the Open Society Foundations’ New Executive Fund and Fellowship.
Mr. Washington holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University. He is also a Certified Association Executive (CAE). As of June 2026, Mr. Washington reported the following external relationship:
- American Journalism Project, board chair, without compensation