2025 Centennial Celebration

Sandy Edgerley is Co-Founder of The ‘Quin House, a social club in Boston where she and her husband Paul have created a place intended to expand the lives of members and create a community of impact. As part of this mission, she helped launch The ‘Quin Impact Fund, the club’s philanthropic arm, which has awarded over $3 million in grants to local nonprofits. She is also the Founder & President of Hexagon Properties, a leading luxury real estate development firm headquartered in Boston. Known for her deep commitment to the city, Edgerley has served as Chair of the Boston Foundation and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, and held leadership roles with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Horizons for Homeless Children, City Year National Board, Harvard College Fund, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Mass General Hospital President’s Council. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

The Honorable Janet T. Mills is currently serving her second term as Maine’s 75th Governor, and is the state’s first female Governor.  Gov. Mills has dedicated much of her career to public service, having previously served as Maine’s Attorney General, as a State Representative, and as a District Attorney.  As governor, she has worked to ensure that every Maine resident has affordable, high-quality health care; that Maine has a strong economy with good-paying jobs in every part of the state; that every Maine child has access to a world-class education; and that Maine is a place where families can put down roots and raise their kids. She has focused on working in a bipartisan manner to find consensus and move Maine forward. She is a native of Farmington, Maine, where she still resides, and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the University of Maine School of Law.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian, who was previously honored by the Council as a New Englander of the Year in 2010.  A longtime Massachusetts resident, she is the author of eight books, including her most recent release, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, which became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller in 2024 and is being developed as a feature film. Goodwin is often called upon by the news media, educational institutions, government agencies, and nonprofits to share her vast knowledge of leadership and provide historical context for current-day events, especially as our democracy is challenged, international wars rage, and we continue to struggle in a divided and polarized country.  Earlier in her career, she worked at the White House under President Lyndon B. Johnson, as a lecturer at Harvard University, and as a sports journalist.

U.S. Representative Gabe Amo was elected to Congress in 2023, representing Rhode Island’s First Congressional District. He has dedicated his career to public service, serving previously as Director of Public Engagement and Community Affairs for former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, and later as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs for President Joe Biden.  In Congress, he serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ranking Member of the Environment Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, and the House Budget Committee. Since taking office, Rep. Amo has focused on representing all of the diverse communities in his district and fighting for federal policies that elevate economic opportunities and support job creation. The son of West African immigrants, Rep. Amo is the first person of color to represent the Ocean State in Congress.  He is a graduate of Wheaton College, and studied at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar.

U.S. Representative Jake Auchincloss was first elected to Congress in 2020, and is currently serving his third term representing Massachusetts’ Fourth Congressional District.  Shortly after graduating from Harvard University, the Congressman joined the U.S. Marine Corps, where he commanded infantry in Afghanistan, and special operations in Panama, rising to the rank of Major.  Following his military service, the Congressman served on the Newton City Council, and earned an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   He also worked at a cybersecurity and at Liberty Mutual in its innovation arm, Solaria Labs.  After previous stints on the House Financial Services Committee and the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, in the 118^th Congress, Rep. Auchincloss was named to the influential House Energy & Commerce Committee. Throughout his time in congress, he has been a champion for policies that expand access to healthcare, invest in clean energy resources, and foster research and innovation.

Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander is currently serving her first term in the United States Congress representing New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District.  The Congresswoman has dedicated her life to public service and began her career working as a foreign policy advisor in the U.S. Senate to Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain. She later served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve for over a decade. Following law school, she was a clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court to Justice Stephen Breyer and later taught constitutional law at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College.  More recently, she served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a senior advisor at the White House, where she led the Unity Agenda for the Nation.  In Congress, she draws on her military service as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, and advocates for New Hampshire’s small businesses on the House Small Business Committee.  Congresswoman Goodlander was born and raised in Nashua, N.H., the city that her family has called home for more than 100 years, where she learned the values of community, citizenship, and service that drive her work to this day.