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

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

Tiffany White, Executive Director, twhite@dirksencenter.org
Lynn Kasinger, Executive Office Assistant / Archival Requests, lkasinger@dirksencenter.org
Chris Kaergard, Communications Director and Associate Historian, ckaergard@dirksencenter.org