Trustees and Advisory Council

Board of Trustees

Hans Miller | Chair of the Board

Ted Whittemore | Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Governance Committee | Attorney and Partner (ret.) | Murtha Cullina, LLP

Timothy Matson | Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee | Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer | National Guardian Life Insurance Company (ret.)

Bridget E. Quinn | Secretary of the Board of Trustees | President & CEO | Hartford Public Library

Ben Robinson | Chair of the Building and Grounds Committee | Senior Architect | Hoffman Architects

David Jimenez | Chair of the Development Committee | Jackson Lewis P.C. Principal

Julie Zyla | Chair of the Curatorial Committee | U.S. Commercial Marketing Senior Advisor (ret.) | Cigna

Kamal Agrawal | Group General Counsel | Travelers International

David Baldacci | Writer & Philanthropist

Annette Bolt (ret.) | Former President of The Friends of Mark Twain House | Public and Private Accountant

Y’landa Burch | Executive Director of Statewide Efforts | Boys & Girls Clubs in Maryland

Trevon Canada | Head of Operations for Middle Market and Global Business Segments | The Hartford

Rand Richards Cooper | Writer and Editor

Henry Denton | Principal at Hightree Advisors

Paul Eddy | President of the Board – Emeritus | Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel for International (ret.) | The Travelers Companies

Robert Englehart | Editorial Cartoonist and Author | The Hartford Courant (ret.)

Ellis A. Fenwick | Lead in Commercial Real Estate Credit Risk and Portfolio Management at Fannie Mae

Sue Freedman | Of Counsel, School Law Practice Group Shipman & Goodwin, LLP

Rohan Freeman | President and CEO | Freeman Co. Engineers, LLC

Amy Gallent, President, CEO, and U.S. General Counsel at Catalina Insurance (ret.)

Christina M. Greer, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Political Science | Fordham University

Lawrence Howe, Ph.D. | Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies | Roosevelt University

Javon Jackson | Director of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz | The Hartt School | University of Hartford

Roger L. Michel, Jr. | Executive Director | Institute for Digital Archaeology

Juline Mills, Ph.D. |Interim Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor | Westfield State University

Hon. Daniel A. Morris | United States Immigration Judge

Dina Plapler | Director of Institutional Advancement | Kingswood Oxford School

Abby Sannizzaro-Jackson | Senior Specialist of Community Engagement at Stanley Black & Decker

Merche Del Valle | Senior Talent, Leadership, Organizational, Development Executive and CEO Executive | Coach Medley Professional Training and Coaching

2024 Advisory Council

Kerry Driscoll, Ph.D., Professor of English and Mark Twain Scholar

Frieder Hepp, Ph.D., Director of the Palatinate Museum of the City of Heidelberg

Cindy Lovell, Ph.D., Educator, Writer, Mark Twain Scholar, former Executive Director of the MTHM

Kevin Mac Donnell, Scholar and Mark Twain Collector

Louise Mirrer, Ph.D., President and CEO of New York Historical Society

Douglas Preston, Author and Journalist

Dawnie Walton, Author and Winner of the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

Stephen White, Former President and CEO of Mystic Seaport Museum

2024 Honorary Board

Arunan Arulampalam, Mayor of Hartford

Richard Blumenthal, United States Senator, Connecticut

Luke Bronin, Former Mayor of Hartford

Ron Chernow, Author

Suzanne Hopgood, Philanthropist

Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut

John Larson, US Congressman, 1st District of Connecticut

Chris Murphy, United States Senator, Connecticut

Azar Nafisi, Ph.D., Author and Professor

Matt Ritter, Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives

Simon Winchester, Author