Board of Directors
About Us
Our People
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Our board offers different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds and delivers strong leadership, sound advice, and good governance. RFK board members’ passion and expertise align with our mission to achieve the more just and peaceful world Robert Kennedy envisioned.
Executive Committee
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Siris Capital; Board Chair, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, Board Chair, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Chief Collaboration Officer, Collaboratory; Board Vice Chair, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Partner, Dentons; Treasurer and Chair, Board Finance Committee, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Visiting Professor of Law and Executive Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University; Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs
Managing Director, DEI Investment Portfolio & HBCU Investment Strategy, PGIM; Vice Chair, Board Governance Committee
General Partner & Founder, TMV; Vice Chair, Board Development Committee
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Professor, School of Business, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Chair, Board Communications Committee
Georgetown University Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy, Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality; Chair, Board Programs Committee
Founder, Chairman, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer, Ariel Investments
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, MVC GP II, MVC Capital Inc.; Vice Chair, Board Finance Committee
Founder and Managing Director, Quotidian Ventures; Vice Chair, Board Development Committee
Board Members
Listed in order of tenure from newest to oldest.
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights
Partner, TPG NEXT
Veteran Communications Expert; Former U.S. CEO, Edelman
Managing Director, DEI Investment Portfolio & HBCU Investment Strategy, PGIM; Vice Chair, Board Governance Committee
Founding President and CEO, Voto Latino
Attorney; Playwright; Citizen of the Cherokee Nation
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Vistria Group, LLC
Founder and Director, Trans People of Color Coalition
Member of the Executive Committee, BNY Mellon
Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman
Founder and Executive Chair, Socos Labs
Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, National Football League
Chairman, RFK Human Rights Italia
President, American Federation of Teachers
Human Rights Expert and Social Change Strategist
Founding Partner, Ardabelle Capital
Chief Executive Officer, TIAA
President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
CEO, Tonio Burgos and Associates
Former President, Hillspire
President, Barbey Capital Management
Former Group President, Investigation Discovery, Military Channel, and Destination America With Discovery Communications
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Vista Equity Partners
Director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Actor/Activist
President, RFK Human Rights
Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Washington College of Law, American University
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Principal, Sachs Policy Group
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