IFE Leadership

 

• Kathy Kemper -- known as “Coach” to many -- is founder and CEO of the Institute for Education, a non-profit foundation that recognizes and promotes leadership and civility locally, nationally, and in the world community. IFE also educates youth for global citizenship in an increasingly connected world.

  Called Washington’s “Networker in Chief” by US News and World Report, Coach Kemper also founded INFO, a program of IFE. INFO is a roundtable public affairs forum that draws diplomats, influential public officials, senior media, and business leaders from both sides of the aisle for debate and discussion. INFO speakers have included Supreme Court Justices, a Vice President, Senators, Nobel laureates, Cabinet secretaries, Ambassadors, Governors, and a professional athlete.

  A former professional tennis player, Kemper served as head Women’s Tennis Coach at Georgetown University from 1978 to 1990. She coached Georgetown’s No. 1 player to a four-year undefeated match play streak and to the Big East and NCAA National Woman’s Division II title in 1983. 

  Kemper is a sought-after speaker on issues from Title IX and gender equity to her unique, insider’s view of Washington. She has spent 25 years coaching tennis to Washington’s powerbrokers and opinion makers — hitting the courts with Supreme Court Justices, members of the United States Congress and United States Secretaries of State through four administrations.

  Well known in Washington’s diplomatic community, Kemper has received awards and recognition from the Swedish and Chinese governments for her commitment to cross-cultural dialogue, friendship, and understanding. She has been honored by numerous organizations for her leadership, her commitment to promoting collaborative and global dialogue, and  her philanthropic efforts.

  She is on the Board of Trustees of the Washington International School and has been awarded numerous Woman of the Year honors from various groups. She was named the Prince Sporting Goods’ Woman of the Year and received recognition from the National Association of Women in Business. A frequent op-ed writer and columnist, her work has been featured in The Hill, USA Today, Roll Call, The Washington Examiner, The Bangkok Post, and Vietnam Daily, Hanoi Times, and Newsday.

  Coach Kemper lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California and Washington, DC.

• Maryann Meza is Deputy Director. She offers a range of knowledge in the areas of management, organizational structure, and administration. She also has previous experience in the nonprofit sector as she helped to form the Institute of Finance Leaders of the Americas, Inc. . Maryann has a Master of Public Administration from West Virginia University. She graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College at West Virginia University with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Philosophy.
• Marci Robinson is Chairman of the Board of Stewards, and a former member of the Board of Trustees, of the Institute for Education. Robinson is the principal of Robinson Communications, a public affairs and media relations consulting firm whose clients have included Fortune 100 companies, political figures and other prominent individuals, and nonprofit organizations. She is also the Founder and President of the Swann Foundation for Music Education, a nonprofit organization committed to educating young musicians and the public about the relationship between music, art, history and literature by hosting events and music institutes at the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, Phillips Collection, Library of Congress and embassies in our nation's capital. From 1989 through 1992 Robinson was the Chief Spokesman and Director of Communications for the United States Department of Commerce and Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher. From 1985 through 1989 she worked for U.S. Representative Jack Kemp, handling legislative issues and serving as his Congressional Press Secretary. Robinson also served as adjunct professor of congressional communications in the joint graduate program of the Legislative Studies Institute and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs from 1992 through 1994.
• Hanna Bondarewska is Executive Director of INFO, Institute for Education, & Kathy Kemper & Co. She is Membership Chairman of the ABC XXI Child Awareness Program for Poland, which supports the emotional health and rights of children and adolescents through reading programs, awareness, education and action. She also teaches special outreach programs with Classika Theater at Arlington schools, leads drama classes at the Theater, and performs at various shows. Ms. Bondarewska graduated magna cum laude from the MVC of The George Washington University. As a student, she worked as a production intern with the Washington Revels and the In Series, where she performed all aspects of the public relations, fundraising, management, and theatrical productions. She served as President of Phi Theta Kappa at SFCC in Gainesville, Florida. Ms. Bondarewska also holds an Acting Diploma from Warsaw, Poland. She has performed and directed plays in her home country of Poland and, more recently, in Florida and Washington, DC. Ms. Bondarewska has received various prestigious honors including: The Julia Heflin Performing Arts Award, recognition by the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities, identification as a National Deans List Scholar, and others.

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HE Sameh Shoukry, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, IFE Leadership honoree Chris Caine, Mercator XXI, Coach Kathy Kemper, and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano at the 2010 IFE Leadership dinner.

IFE Trustee Robert Shapiro, Ambassadors Michael Wilson, Jon Bruton, and Dominique Strye de Swielande at the IFE/INFO public policy forum with Senator Chuck Hagel in the LBJ room of the U.S. Capitol

Secretary Michael Chertoff, Kathy Kemper, and Justice Samuel Alito, IFE Leadership

IFE Steward Judge William Webster and General Brent Scowcroft.

Morton Konbracke and HE Corrado Pirzio-Biroli