For a time, the Greenwich resident forayed into academia, with stints at Tulane, Princeton, Baruch and Yale. He dove into nonprofits while working on Sesame Street and for the Ford Foundation.
The seven-member school board is currently run by a Democrat majority. Current Democrat board of education chair Mark Overmyer-Velazquez and board member Tammy Exum are not seeking re-election.
A suite of Mickalene Thomas's lush, glittering photos and paintings of women went on display at the Newcomb Art Museum on the Tulane University campus on Wednesday evening . Thomas's career is especially resonant on the eve of Inauguration Day 2017, because her art had a role in the inauguration of the current president.