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Home / Awards / Servitor Pacis Award / 2007 THE SERVITOR PACIS AWARD RECIPIENTS
2010 - Kevin M. Ryan, Esq. Kevin Ryan is the president and CEO of Covenant House International, the largest charity in North and Central America helping homeless, trafficked and sexually exploited youth get off the streets and turn their lives around. He oversees the care of tens of thousands of youth between the ages of 10 and 21 in 6 countries and 22 cities, from Anchorage, Alaska to Managua, Nicaragua. In 2003, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey appointed Kevin to become New Jersey’s first Child Advocate, founding a watchdog agency that monitored conditions for children in foster care and juvenile detention, spurring widespread reforms. Beginning in 2006, he served in the cabinet of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine as the first Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) and as Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Human Services (DHS), the largest agency in state government. In 2008, United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria Raymond Chambers named Kevin to oversee the launch of the Special Envoy’s new UN offices in an effort to dramatically curb the number of children’s deaths caused each year by malaria. Kevin began his work with children and youth in 1992 by offering legal aid to the residents of Covenant House in New York City. He served Covenant House youth for ten years in New York City and New Jersey, during which time he also taught aspiring advocates at the law schools of Rutgers (Newark), Seton Hall, St. John’s and Fordham. For his work on behalf of homeless youth during this period, Kevin was the recipient of Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Fellowship and the Skadden Fellowship. His advocacy on behalf of children has led him to be featured on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Anderson Cooper 360, Fox and Friends, and leading newspapers across the nation. He is currently co-writing a book with former New York Times reporter Tina Kelley on seven homeless youth across the country who have left the violence and abuse of the streets and are struggling to find their way in the world. Kevin is a graduate of The Catholic University of America (B.A.); Georgetown Law Center (J.D.) and New York University Law School (LL.M.). He and his wife Clare live in New Jersey with their 6 children.
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