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Our People
Board of Directors and Senior Advisor, 2022-2023
- Will Ball, Retired, Director of the Caterpillar Foundation, Dunlap, IL
- Greg Cassidy, Chief Operating Officer, TCRC, Tremont, IL
- Gary Gillis, Retired, Edward Jones Financial Advisor
- Lincoln "Linc" Hobson, Tazewell County Clerk, Pekin, IL
- Dakota Horn, Lecturer and Course Director, Communications Department, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
- Dennis Kief, Public Administration Consultant, Pekin, IL
- Emily Lambe, Programming and PR Manager, Pekin, IL
- Carol Merna, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Prevention of Abuse, Peoria, IL
- Shaun Newell, Vice President/General Manager, WMBD/WYZZ-TV, Peoria, IL
- Mike O'Grady, Owner, Prairie Enterprises LLC, Hudson, IL
- Stacy Peterson, Strategic Communications Manager, City of Peoria, Peoria, IL
- Don Shafer, Peoria, Illinois Central College, East Peoria, IL
- Debbie Simon, Retired President and CEO, Unity Point Health, Central IL, Peoria, IL
- Vicki Tilton, Partner, Fox and Hounds, Bloomington, IL
- John Unland, The Unland Company, Edwards, CO
Officers
- Denny Kief, President
- Dakota Horn, Vice President
- Gary Gillis, Treasurer
- Greg Cassidy, Secretary
Senior Advisor
National Advisory Council
- Jeffrey Bernstein, Professor of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
- C. Lawrence “Larry” Evans, Newton Family Professor of Government, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA
- Richard Hunt, Director of the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC
- KC Johnson, American History Professor, Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, Brooklyn, NY
- Frank H. Mackaman, Historian Emeritus, The Dirksen Congressional Center
- Sheryl Vogt, Director of the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia, Athens GA
- Nancy Beck Young, Professor of History, University of Houston
Staff
Contact Information
- The Dirksen Congressional Center
- 2815 Broadway
- Pekin, Illinois 61554
- 309.347.7113
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