Ami Dar
Ami Dar is the founder and Executive Director of Idealist.org. Built in 1996 with $3,500, Idealist.org has become one of the most popular nonprofit resources on the web. The site attracts millions of visitors every month and includes volunteer, job, and internship listings provided by 135,000 organizations around the world. Ami was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Peru […]
Commissioner Ryan Quarles
Dr. Ryan F. Quarles serves as Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture. First elected to that position in 2015, he was re-elected in 2019, winning 117 of 120 counties. Under his leadership, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) started several new programs, including initiatives to combat hunger and connect Kentucky farmers to new markets. Quarles’s outspoken advocacy […]
Lt. Col. Amy McGrath
Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, USMC (ret.) is a US Naval Academy graduate who served as a Marine F/A-18 pilot and weapons systems officer with three combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. After her operational flying tours, she served as a Congressional Fellow and in the Pentagon as Marine Corps’ liaison to the State Department and […]
Maggie Lyons
Based in the SAS Washington, DC area office, Maggie leads SAS’ work in AgTech, Retail, and Consumer Goods, leading a team of sales and domain experts working to bring SAS solutions to solve the most challenging data problems for our customers. Maggie brings over 15 years of experience working in agriculture policy, including significant work […]
Anthony (Tony) Lewis
Anthony Lewis is Region Vice President of State Public Policy and Government Affairs for Verizon. He oversees the corporations’ interests in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. Mr. Lewis assumed this position in October 2011 and his responsibilities include shaping and advancing Verizon’s public policy initiatives for […]
Kristen Kennedy
Kristen Kennedy is a morning anchor and an investigative reporter for WKYT. She started reporting for the WKYT team in June 2010, which was a move back east from West Texas. As a reporter and anchor for KAMC in Lubbock, she brought home some of the region’s biggest and most compelling stories to viewers each […]
Bruce McIntyre
Bruce McIntyre founded the saveArose Foundation after losing his soulmate Amber Rose Isaac to an unscheduled emergency C section that stemmed from medical negligence on April 21st 2020. Since then Bruce has become a fearless advocate for families & racial disparities within the medical system. His mission is to combat & dismantle systemic flaws within […]
Mayor Linda Gorton
Linda Gorton, the longest continuously serving member of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council, is serving her first term as Lexington Mayor. Mayor Gorton was elected on November 6, 2018, winning 63% of the vote. A native of Ohio, Mayor Gorton has lived in Lexington most of her adult life. In addition to her 16 years […]
The Hon. Glenn Nye
Glenn Nye is the President & CEO of the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress (CSPC), a nonpartisan think tank aiming to educate future public policy leaders while serving as an honest broker between the White House, Congress and the Private Sector. He leads discussions on key national security issues and reforming […]
Mary J. Davis
Mary J. Davis is Dean of the UK J. David Rosenberg College of Law. Dean Davis has been on the UK Law faculty since 1991. She joined the faculty after six years of a products liability litigation defense practice for the law firms of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and McGuire, […]
Gina Raimondo
Gina M. Raimondo serves as the 40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce and was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on March 3, 2021. As Secretary of Commerce, she is focused on a simple but vital mission — to spur good-paying jobs, empower entrepreneurs to innovate and grow, and help American workers and businesses compete. Secretary Raimondo was […]