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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

As Maryland’s first female lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend worked for the issues people care about most – from improving schools to fighting crime, from creating jobs to ensuring quality health care for children and seniors. Drawing on her extensive knowledge and experience, she enlightens audiences on the current political landscape and what it means for them and their organization. Townsend offers a results-oriented strategy for effective government and explores ethical issues in education, business and government, as well as the value and rewards of volunteerism. Using her personal story as inspiration, Townsend offers a poignant and powerful look at the struggles women continue to face, both internally and externally, on the road to achievement. An innovator in the fight against crime, Lt. Governor Townsend created the HotSpots program, which brings together law enforcement and community leaders, and the Maryland Police Corps, which recruits young people to serve as police officers. Before becoming lt. governor, she was deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice. Townsend is founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and serves on the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She is president of... Next

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