Kelley Szany (Co-Chair)

Kelley Szany is an award-winning Holocaust and genocide educator with over 20 years of experience in the field. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Holocaust Organizations and Educators Institute for Human Rights. She serves on the Advisory Councils for Together We Remember and Unsilence. Szany has won multiple awards for her educational and human rights work, including the Samuel Goldsmith Award from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Damen Award from the Graduate School at Loyola University of Chicago, and the Carl Wilkens Fellowship where she worked alongside national leaders to create and strengthen a permanent anti-genocide constituency through both advocacy work and influence of U.S. policy. Szany is the author of “Teaching the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Through Stanton’s 8 Stages,” and “The Power of Story: Teaching About Genocide Through Literature Circles,” in Teaching About Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors, Volume I and II (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018 and 2019). Szany holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Canisius College, and a master’s degree in public history from Loyola University Chicago.