About Us

People

TDI Staff

Nancy L. Thomas*

Director, TDI
Senior Associate, Everyday Democracy
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Michele Holt-Shannon*

Administrative Director, Discovery Program
University of New Hampshire
E-mail Michele

Mica Stark

Outreach & Engagement Director, The Carsey Institute
University of New Hampshire
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Board

Bruce L. Mallory* (Chair)

Professor of Education
University of New Hampshire
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Derek Barker

Program Officer
The Kettering Foundation

Shelby Brown*

Masters student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Organizer, Community Conversations on Race Trainer, Anti-Defamation League

Ande Diaz*

Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Intercultural Center
Roger Williams University

Matt Leighninger

Executive Director
Deliberative Democracy Consortium

Peter Levine*

Director, CIRCLE
Director of Research, The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
Tufts University

Sheila McNamee*

Professor of Communication
University of New Hampshire
Board member, Taos Institute

Caryn McTighe Musil

Senior Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives
Association of American Colleges and Universities

John Saltmarsh

Director
New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)

David Schoem*

Faculty Director
Michigan Community Scholars Program
University of Michigan

Patrick Scully*

Deputy Director
Everyday Democracy
Executive VP
The Paul J. Aicher Foundation

Robert Stains

Vice President
Public Conversations Project

Ex-Officio

John Dedrick

Director of Programs
Kettering Foundation

Sandy Heierbacher

Co-Founder and Director
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation

 

 

(* Original Organizers)