Our People

Board of Directors and Senior Advisor, 2021-2022

Will Ball, Retired, Director of the Caterpillar Foundation
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
Scott Kriegsman, Attorney at Law, Pekin, IL
Janet Lange, Retired, Executive Director, Continuing Education, Bradley University
Shaun Newell, News Director, WMBD/WYZZ-TV
Stacy Peterson, Strategic Communications Manager, City of Peoria
John Redlingshafer, Esq., Attorney and Shareholder, Mescher, Rinehart, and Redlingshafer, Washington, IL
Don Shafer, Executive Vice President, PNC Bank, Peoria, IL
Debbie Simon, Retired President and CEO, Unity Point Health, Central IL, Peoria, IL
Brad Stotler, Congressional Aide, Peoria, IL
Vicki Tilton, Partner, Fox and Hounds
Jim Wolf, Wolf Financial Advisors, LLC, Pekin, IL

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
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