David Dunn, Acting Under Secretary and Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Education

President Bush appointed David Dunn acting under secretary at the U.S. Department of Education in January 2006. In this role, Dunn oversees policies, programs and activities related to vocational and adult education, postsecondary education, college aid and the president's financial reforms for the Pell Grant program. Dunn is also the chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. In this position, he continues a career devoted to improving accountability and raising standards in America's schools.

Prior to coming to the U.S. Department of Education, Mr. Dunn served as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council. Mr. Dunn served in this role starting in August 2002. His portfolio of issues included all areas of education policy, from early childhood through higher education.

Before joining the Domestic Policy Council, Mr. Dunn was the Associate Executive Director of the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) where he acted as the association's chief lobbyist. Mr. Dunn was also the association expert on school finance and school accountability. Prior to his work at TASB, Dunn spent fifteen years in education and fiscal policy analysis for the State of Texas. He acted as lead staff for an education policy center that developed the blueprint for Texas' School Accountability System in the early '90's.

Mr. Dunn has an MA in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Political Science from Baylor University. Mr. Dunn currently resides in Washington D.C. with his wife, Renee.

Ivan Juzang, founder MEE Productions Inc.

In 1990, Ivan Juzang founded MEE Productions Inc., a unique and groundbreaking research and communications company with offices in Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Under his leadership, MEE has remained committed to its founding principle—to use socially-responsible entrepreneurship to reach and positively influence low-income urban youth and difficult-to-reach minority populations. MEE first gained national prominence in 1992, with the release of its primary research study, "The MEE Report: Reaching the Hip-Hop Generation." Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report focused on the previously unexplored cultural and communications dynamics of urban teens. MEE’s latest study, "This is My Reality-The Price of Sex; An Inside Look at Black Urban Youth Sexuality and the Role of Media", has also received national media attention because it added young people’s voices to the dialogue about sex in America's inner cities.

Through ground-breaking qualitative research which provides an "insider's view" of the challenging daily realities of urban living, combined with creatively "outside the box" media production and community mobilization services, this 20-employee company consistently develops extremely effective community interventions dealing with issues such as: substance abuse; HIV/AIDS prevention; youth violence; school drop-outs; reproductive health and teenage pregnancy prevention.

Since 2003, Mr. Juzang has also been a member of The Office of National Drug Control and Policy's Behavior Change Expert Panel for the National Anti-Drug Media Campaign. He is also a member of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control (ACIPC) and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Public Issues for The Ad Council. He received his MBA from The Wharton School of Business and his BS from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Last updated/reviewed August 31, 2006