Bernard Franklin
2022 ALI Fellow
Bernard Franklin brings to ALI deep experience fostering opportunity, in particular, access to higher education, for marginalized and under-represented children and youth. He has spent a large part of his career as a senior university administrator, most recently at Mount St. Mary’s University, and for many years at his alma mater, Kansas State University, where his last role was as special assistant to the university’s president. Earlier, Bernard served as vice president of urban fathering at the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit addressing the impact of fatherlessness on youth, executive director of the Kauffman Foundation, guiding and supporting urban Kansas City youth in graduating from high school and college, and president of Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley in Kansas City.