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
Monica Melchionni Curtis | Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at MetLife
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 | 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