Sheryl Hilliard Tucker is executive director of The Board Challenge and Chief External Affairs officer of AFS Intercultural Programs. Tucker has been Chief Editor of three national publications—Black Enterprise, Essence, and Your Company—and was on the senior executive team that managed Time Warner’s portfolio of more than 100 magazines and digital brands worldwide. Ms. Tucker is a Trustee Emerita of Cornell University and serves as a Trustee of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey. Ms. Tucker received a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and attended New York University’s Heyman School of Philanthropy. She was elected to The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors in 2021.