Adam.Hinds@emkinstitute.org

Adam has twenty-five years of experience working in US politics, government, and foreign affairs. He is currently the CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. Before joining the Institute, he spent six years as a Massachusetts State Senator where he Chaired the Committee on Revenue and led the Senate’s effort to rebuild the Commonwealth post-COVID. In 2021-2022 he was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.

From 2005 to 2014 Adam worked for the United Nations in the Middle East. He was based in Baghdad, Iraq where he was a team leader of a UN-led negotiation between the Kurdistan Region and the Government of Iraq over disputed territory. He was a regional advisor to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process in Jerusalem. He worked for former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to establish a ceasefire in Syria in 2012 and then was part of a team to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons program.

Early in his career, Adam worked for former Congressman John Olver and was part of John Kerry’s campaign for President where he worked for Susan Rice, the head of his foreign policy team who later became the US National Security Advisor.

Adam attended Wesleyan University and received a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Adam is married to Dr. Alicia Mireles Christoff, Associate Professor of English at Amherst College, and they have two young children.

Joe.Hale@emkinstitute.org
857-271-3331

Prior to joining EMKI, Hale was President of The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.  He led a campaign to reimagine the IMS Museum, raising $200MM to completely renovate the Museum, creating a new 60,000sf Restoration Facility, and added $100MM to the IMS Museum’s endowment (imsmuseum.org).

Previously, Hale was Executive Director of The Dreamland, Nantucket’s year-round cultural center, where he reversed annual operating deficits, increased programming, and began a campaign to provide an endowment for the organization.

Hale also served as Founder and President of The Global BrightLight Foundation, the largest NGO in the world at the time providing solar lanterns to off grid families in developing areas in a dozen countries.    Prior to creating The Global BrightLight Foundation, Hale served as Vice President & Chief Communications Officer of Cinergy Corp. (now Duke Energy), and as President of Cinergy Foundation. He also served as President of Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company.

Hale has worked in commercial real estate development and headed an architectural firm with offices in the Midwest.  Prior to entering the private sector, Mr. Hale had extensive experience in arts management – with the Indiana Arts Commission, as a high school teacher of theatre in Germany, with Historic New Harmony, Inc. and as executive director of the Metropolitan Arts Council of Indianapolis.

He has been a Trustee (and frequently Chairman) of numerous organizations.  Hale graduated from Hanover College, and is a graduate of the Harvard University’s Institute in Arts Administration. He holds honorary degrees from the Columbus (OH) College of Art and Design and from Hanover College.

Hale has served on the boards of The National March of Dimes, The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, The Eiteljorg Museum, The Indiana Repertory Theatre, Dance Kaleidoscope, The Sconset Trust, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center, The Community Foundation for Nantucket, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Fifth Third Funds, Hanover College, and several not-for-profit boards in Cincinnati and on Nantucket.

Hale and his wife, Linda, have raised over $250MM for various nonprofits, including chairing the campaign to build Cincinnati’s Contemporary Art Center, designed by Zaha Hadid.  He also raised over $300K for the March of Dimes by running 7 marathons in 7 months on 7 continents. They have three children and six grandchildren.

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