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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

James A. Leach, Director, Harvard's Institute of Politics, former U.S. Representative of Iowa

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

Elaine C. Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government

Rachel Kaprielian, Member, House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1999 Dan Fenn Award Recipient

Alan Khazei, Founder and former CEO, City Year

Vivien Li, Executive Director, Boston Harbor Foundation

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