New Leader for Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Giuseppe “Seppy” Basili (at right) has been named executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which both provides scholarships to low-income students and publishes research on the challenges faced by such students and policies that may stand in the way of their enrolling in colleges. Basili has led numerous of the foundation's efforts thus far. He succeeds Harold O. Levy, who stepped down from leading the foundation after he was diagnosed with ALS.