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Award Committee

A distinguished bipartisan committee of political and community leaders annually selects the New Frontier Award recipients based on their contributions to the public and their embodiment of the forward-looking public idealism to which President Kennedy hoped young Americans would aspire.

Co-Chairs

Bill Purcell, Director, Institute of Politics; former Mayor, Nashville, Tennessee

John Shattuck, CEO, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor


Committee Members

Ranny Cooper, President  & COO, Weber Shandwick Public Affairs, former Chief of Staff for Senator Edward M. Kennedy

Dan Fenn, former member of President John F. Kennedy's staff, and former Director of the John F. Kennedy Library

Carol Fulp, Vice President of Community Relations, John Hancock Financial Services

Alan Khazei, Founder and former CEO, City Year

Kika Matos, Community Services Administrator, City of New Haven; recipient, 2005 New Frontier Award

Kristin McSwain, National Director, AmeriCorps

Rick Musiol,Chief of Staff, Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray

Barbara Souliotis, State Director, Office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy