Leadership
Co-Chair Cong. Joe Kennedy III
Co-Chair Susan Davis
Vice-Chair Kimberly Cowell-Meyers
Vice-Chair John Feehery
Executive Director Kevin J. Sullivan
Recording Secretary Bobby Cunningham
Former members of the Diplomatic Corps
Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001-2009). Mitchell Reiss, Special Presidential Envoy to Northern Ireland and current member of the Independent Review Commission. Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, former National Security Council Assistant to President Bill Clinton & Ambassador to the U.N.. Ambassador Susan Elliott, President, National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown University Institute on Women, Peace and Security and former Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues. Ambassador Kevin O’Malley, Ambassador to Ireland, (2014 TO 2017). Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, former Ambassador to Brazil and former Ambassador to Portugal. Ambassador Michael O’Sullivan, former Governor of Wyoming and Ambassador to Ireland (1998 -2001). Ambassador Claire Cronin, Former US Ambassador to Ireland.
Former White House Senior Officials
Carmel Martin, Deputy Director for Economic Mobility, Domestic Policy Council. John W. McCarthy, Special Assistant to the President. Thomas Wright, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council.
Former Governors and Members of Congress
Chris Dodd, U.S. Senator. Gary Hart, U.S. Senator and Personal Envoy to Northern Ireland for Secretary of State John Kerry. Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland. Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia. Cong. Joe Crowley, (D) New York. Cong. Pete King, (R) New York. Cong. Marty Meehan (D) Massachusetts. Cong. John Katko, (R) New York. Cong. Jim Walsh (R) New York. Cong. Bruce Morrison (D) Connecticut.
Academics
Prof. Bonnie Weir, Yale University. Prof. Kimberly Cowell Meyers, American University. Prof. Carol Gallaher, American University. Prof. Robert Savage, Director, Boston College Irish Studies Program. Prof. Brendan O’Leary, University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown University, Global Irish Studies. Prof. Martin Flaherty, Fordham University Law School & Princeton University. Prof. John Feerick, Fordham University Law School. Prof. John Rogan, Fordham University Law School. Prof. Michael Martin, Fordham University Law School. Prof. Patrick Griffin, Notre Dame University, Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Marty Meehan, President of the University of Massachusetts system. Morgan O’Sullivan, Lynn University. Prof. Darragh Gannon, Georgetown University, Global Irish Studies. Mary C. Murphy, Director of the Irish Institute, Boston College.
Irish American Organizations
Danny O’Connell, AOH. Dan Dennehy, AOH. Martin Galvin, AOH. Sean Pender, AOH President. Chief Judge James F. McKay, immediate past President, AOH. Karen Keane, President of the Ladies AOH. Neil Cosgrave, AOH. Stella O’Leary President, Irish American Democrats. Peter Kissel, President, Irish American Unity Network. Jennifer Frankola, Brehon Law Society. Chris Fitzgerald, Brehon Law Society. Domhnall O’Cathain, Brehon Law Society.
Prominent Irish Americans
Hilary Bierne, CEO NYC Saint Patrick’s Day Foundation and Chief Administrator of the largest Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in the world. John Fitzpatrick, President and CEO, Fitzpatrick Hotel Group & former Chair of the American Ireland Fund. Loretta Brennan Glucksman, former Chair of the American Ireland Fund. Susan O’Neill, American Ireland Fund National Gala Chair. Mike O’Neil, former COS to House Speaker Tom Foley. Mark Tuohey, lawyer, former member of the Patton Police Reform Commission, Northern Ireland. Billy Lawless, Senator for the Diaspora, Irish Seanad. Mike McCurry, former Press Secretary to President Bill Clinton. Richard Riley, former U.S. Secretary of Education and former Governor of South Carolina. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lt. Governor of Maryland. Brian O’Dwyer, lawyer, 2019 Grand Marshal of the NYC Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Paul Quinn, lawyer, cofounder of the American Ireland Fund and former Advisor to Senator Ted Kennedy. John Connorton, lawyer, National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Kitty Higgins, Cabinet Secretary to President Bill Clinton, former Deputy Secretary of Labor, former member of the NSTB, current member of the Shannon Airport Authority. Susan Davis, President, Susan Davis International, President of Irish American Republicans. Rosemary O’Neill, retired, U.S. State Department. Carol Wheeler, founder Washington Ireland Program. James B. Hayes, former publisher Fortune magazine. James Boland, immediate past President of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC). Kristen Leary, Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. Noreen Bowden, co-founder, VotingRights.ie. Harry Hartford, American Ireland Fund. William McKiernan, American Ireland Fund. Ted Smyth, former Irish Diplomat, NYU Glucksman Irish House, President of the Advisory Board and Director, Clinton Institute of American Studies, UCD, Dublin, Ireland. William Tranghese, Platinum Advisors & former Chief of Staff to Cong. Richard Neal. Eric Huey, Platinum Advisors, Washington Ireland Program Board member. Jim Gaffey, Atlanta-based activist who spent several years in Belfast during the height of the Trouble. Tom O’Neill, Boston, Massachusetts, son of former Speaker Tip O’Neill, with extensive experience helping the peace process in the 1990s. Don Tighe, Irish Network, DC. Jacqueline Gilna-Turton, founder and CEO of We are Global Irish. Virginia McGregor, current Treasurer to the DNC.
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