BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER
LEVAR BURTON
The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Board of Trustees are national industry leaders who are passionate about the Foundation’s mission to aid the United States in retaining its world leadership in technology and innovation by supporting the very best and brightest scholars in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while commemorating the legacy of America’s pioneering astronauts.
LEVAR BURTON, HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER
Levardis Robert Martyn “LeVar” Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author. He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children’s series Reading Rainbow, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots. He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of Star Trek, among other programs.
Full biography available at Wikipedia.org.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
- Lisa Schott
- Andrew Allen
- Laura Shepard-Churchley
- Arthur Coleman
- Peter Cramer
- Massimo Cutuli
- Zoe Dodge
- Charlie Duke
- Richard Garriott
- Gwen Griffin
- Jeff Haars
- Bill Jaeger
- Julie Shepard Jenkins
- Trent Kingery
- Jarret Lafleur
- Jeff Lovell
- Michael Markesbery
- Rick Mastracchio
- James Mault, MD
- Larry McGlynn
- Barbara Morgan
- Bob Sieck
- Carol Fitzgerald Tyler
- Ox Van Hoften
- Steve Wirth
- LeVar Burton, Honorary Trustee
- Tom Hanks, Honorary Trustee