Daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
Miriam O’Callaghan is an Irish television current affairs presenter with RTÉ.
Dubliner Eileen Dunne has been involved with the Kennedy Summer School for a number of years now. A recent retiree, she spent 42 years working
Brian Bernard Cowen is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 2008 to 2011
Gerard Doherty was active in the campaigns of Jack, Bob and Ted Kennedy and became their friend.
Minister for Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, award-winning Family Lawyer and Partner at Madigans Solicitors
David McCullagh is a journalist with RTÉ. After 12 years as Political Correspondent, he became a presenter on Prime Time in 2013.
Sinéad Burke is an Irish writer, academic and broadcaster, popular for her TED talk on ‘Why design should include everyone’.
Brendan William Howlin is an Irish Labour Party politician who has served as Leader of the Labour Party since May 2016.
Gina London is an Emmy winning former CNN correspondent and anchor and international campaign strategist who has recently permanently relocated to Ireland.
Charlie Wolf is a London-based American broadcaster, writer, commentator and political and social analyst. He has lived in the UK and Ireland for over 30 years.
Maurice Fitzpatrick is an Irish and Japanese-educated film-maker, writer and lecturer.
Robert M. Mauro, PhD is the executive Director of the Irish Institute and Global Leadership Institute at Boston College.
Chris Greene is a broadcaster with RTÉ 2fm and a media producer/presenter who has worked with national and international T.V stations like Channel 4, RTÉ 2 and Yahoo!
John has 20 years experience working with EU institutions and specialises in managing pan-European media and political campaigns.
Professor Tom Collins, Chair of the Governing Bodies of DIT, ITB and ITT
Audrey Carville is an award winning broadcaster and is currently presenting Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio One.
Richard Aldous is a professor of history at Bard College, New York, where he holds the Eugene Meyer Chair. He previously taught for fifteen years at UCD.
Dearbhail McDonald is Group Business Editor of Independent Newspapers.
Kevin Edward Doyle is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Michelle O’Neill is Sinn Féin Vice President, Leader in the Northern Assembly and an MLA for the constituency of Mid Ulster.
David “Davy” Fitzgerald is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He managed the Clare senior team from 2011 until 2016 when he took over as the Wexford manager.
Aine Lawlor is the presenter of Morning Ireland which she joined in 1995 and presented for over 17 years.
Michael McGrath is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála for the Cork South–Central constituency since the 2007 general election.
Mary anchors Radio One’s Drivetime show and has worked in Irish Journalism for almost thirty years.
Anna Geary is a camogie player and television personality from Milford, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Christine Kinealy is an English-born historian, author, and founding director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University.
Professor MacCraith was inaugurated as President of DCU in July 2010.
Attorney, Member of the Massachusetts Ethics Commission, and wife of Gerard F. Doherty
Executive director of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention at the National University of Ireland.
Róisín Shortall is a Social Democrats T.D. for Dublin North West. She was first elected to the Dáil in 1992 and was re-elected at every election since.
Lisa Jacob is from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. She finished her Irish senior hockey career having played 139 times, and then joined the Irish Women’s 7s Squad for over a year.
Former minister, TD and deputy leader of Fianna Fáil, and author of ‘Just Mary‘.
Lynn Ruane was elected to Seanad Eireann in 2016 and is a member of the Civil Engagement Group of independent Senators.
Richard Hayes is Head of the School of Humanities at Waterford Institute of Technology.
Alison Meagher holds a Phd from the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast.
PhD is a social researcher, writer and adjunct professor who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts (USA), and summers in Lismore, Waterford (Ireland).
