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Michael Lomax Frank Fernandez
Since 2004, Dr. Michael L. Lo-
max has served as president and
CEO of UNCF, the nation’s largest
private provider of scholarships
and other educational support to
African-American students.
Under his leadership, UNCF has
raised more than $3 billion and
helped more than 110,000 students
earn college degrees and launch careers. Annually,
UNCF’s work enables 60,000 students to go to college
with UNCF scholarships and attend its 37 member
historically black college and universities (HBCUs).
At UNCF’s helm, Dr. Lomax oversees the organiza-
tion’s 400 scholarship programs, which award 10,000
scholarships a year. He also launched the UNCF
Institute for Capacity Building, which helps UNCF’s
member HBCUs become stronger, more effective and
more self-sustaining.
Under Dr. Lomax’s leadership, UNCF has fought
for college readiness and education reform through
partnerships with reform-focused leaders and organi-
zations and worked to further advance HBCUs with
Congress, the administration and the Department of
Education. He serves on the boards of the KIPP Foun- responsibilities.
dation, America’s Promise, Teach for America and the
Studio Museum in Harlem.
Before joining UNCF, Dr. Lomax was president of
Dillard University in New Orleans and a literature pro- in New York with Salomon Smith Barney, he moved
fessor at UNCF-member institutions Morehouse and
Spelman Colleges. He also founded the National Black School of Public Affairs, University of Texas.
Arts Festival, was a founding member of the Smithso-
nian Institution’s National Museum of African Amer-
ican History and Culture (NMAAHC) and served as
chairman of the Fulton County Commission in Atlan-
ta, the first African American elected to that post.
Frank Fernandez was named the
President and CEO of the Commu-
nity Foundation of Greater Atlanta
in August 2020, replacing Alicia
Philipp, who led the Foundation
for 43 years and announced her
retirement earlier this year.
The Community Foundation is a
$1.2 billion community foundation
serving the 23-county Atlanta region. It has been lead-
ing and inspiring philanthropy to increase the vitality
of the region and the well-being of its residents for 70
years. The Foundation expands its philanthropic reach
and impact by providing quality services to donors and
bold, innovative community leadership. It is a top-20
community foundation among 750 and is Georgia’s
second largest foundation.
Before his current role with the Community Foun-
dation of Greater Atlanta, Fernandez was Senior Vice
President of Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. In
that position, he launched and led the community
revitalization efforts in Atlanta’s historic Westside and
also directed the foundation’s efforts in global giving,
youth development and social justice, among other
A Florida native born to Cuban immigrants, Fernan-
dez holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, magna
cum laude, from Harvard University. After three years
to Austin to pursue a Master of Arts degree at the LBJ
In Atlanta, Fernandez is a member of the board
of the Latino Community Fund and on the finance
committee of KIPP. He has been on Atlanta Magazine’s
Atlanta 500 list the past two years. He is a Civil Soci-
ety Fellow of the Aspen Institute and was a German
Marshall Fund Fellow in 2011. While in Austin he was
named Ernst & Young’s Social Entrepreneur of the
Year.