Rep. Steve Driehaus was most recently Resident Senior Director in Iraq for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), managing a staff of sixteen Iraqi and third country nationals who design and implement programming to strengthen Iraq’s democracy by strengthening political parties, professionalizing the offices and staff of Members of Parliament, empowering women and youth to engage in the political process, and monitoring to ensure fair and impartial elections.

As a former U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 1st Congressional District from 2009 until 2011, he was a member of the Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Prior to his election to Congress, he served eight years as a State Representative in the Ohio House of Representatives and as Minority Whip from 2005-2008.

Before NDI, Steve was President and Managing Partner at Good Government Group, LLC., a consulting firm focusing on the intersection of public policy, community engagement and economic development. Steve also served as the Executive Director of Cincinnati Compass, a regional initiative advocating on behalf of immigrants that celebrates the cultural and economic contributions made by first generation Americans living in Greater Cincinnati.

Steve’s extensive Peace Corps service includes the role of Country Director in Morocco, where his efforts included partnerships with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Youth and Sports as well as expansion into Morocco’s smaller, rural communities. Earlier, Steve served four and a half years as the Country Director for Peace Corps in Swaziland, where he led two projects concentrating on Community Health and Youth Development to combat Swaziland’s HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Steve studied Political Science and Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs at Miami University, earning a B.A. in 1988. After graduation, he joined the Peace Corps in Senegal serving as an Environmental Education Volunteer where he worked with village groups and local schools to promote sustainable environmental practices. He holds a master’s degree in public Affairs from Indiana University.

Rep. Diana MacArthur’s professional and volunteer lives have, over the years, taken parallel paths, each reinforcing the other. She co-founded and was Chair and CEO of Dynamac Corporation, a science, engineering, and technology company, whose clients included more than 20 U.S. government agencies, such as NASA, from which it received numerous awards. 

As an early member of the Peace Corps, she served in senior-level positions, traveling to Iran, Turkey, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Colombia. In recognition of her work in the Peace Corps, the Girl Scouts of the USA, and with a national organization of inner-city Black youth gangs incorporated by the law firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington D.C., she was appointed by President Johnson to the President’s Council on Youth Opportunity.

For GE, she managed a national health education and information clearing house and outreach center under contract to NIH. In recognition of her expertise in science and technology policy and technology transfer, she was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.

In the mental health field, she served as a Trustee of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas for 25 years and subsequently the Menninger-Baylor College of Medicine-The Methodist Hospital Foundation in Houston, Texas. In addition, Mrs. MacArthur served on the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; the Board of Directors of the Science & Technology Corporation at University of New Mexico; the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute; and the Board of Directors and President of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation. She was on the Advisory Board to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Board of Directors of The Atlantic Council, and the Business Advisory Committee to the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation at the University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies. 

Mrs. MacArthur has a B.A. from Vassar College (Phi Beta Kappa), majoring in economics, and spent her junior year studying at the University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies. She received the 1993 KPMG Peat Marwick High Tech Entrepreneur Award. In 2006, she received UMBI’s first Biotechnology Industry Award.

After the sale of Dynamac in 2010, Mrs. MacArthur used her broad experience in areas such as corporate management, science and technology, education, community development, and foreign relations to embark on a school building project in Pakistan. As a private citizen, she financed and shepherded the construction of the earthquake-resistant, environmentally friendly, energy efficient Center for Educational Excellence in the village of MurtazaAbad. It is now a part of the Aga Khan Educational Services, serving as an anchor for creating a vital civil society, empowering people, providing economic opportunity, and connecting the local community to established academic and economic institutions across Pakistan.

Rep. Christopher Shays is a former U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district, serving from 1987 to 2009. A moderate Republican, socially progressive and fiscally conservative, Shays had a strong and successful record of reaching across the aisle to address our Nation’s problems, consistently recognized for his bipartisan leadership. 

During his 21 years in Congress, Chris rose to become a senior member of the Budget, Financial Services, Homeland Security, and Government Reform, committees, and Chaired the Reform Committee’s National Security Committee with oversight of the Defense and State Departments.

Before entering politics, Shays served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Fiji from 1968 to 1970, where he taught English and math at a secondary school. He credits his Peace Corps experience with shaping his worldview and inspiring him to pursue public service.

After Congress, Shays Co-chaired the Commission on Wartime Contracting. Then served as a Distinguished Fellow in Public Service at the University of New Haven, and later as a Resident Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics. Christopher. As a former Peace Corps volunteer,  he championed the Corporation for National and Community Service, helping create AmeriCorps.

Chris is a graduate of Principia College, NYU’s Stern School of Business (MBA), and its Wagner School of Public Administration (MPA). Christopher and Betsi, also a RPCV (Fiji) have a daughter Jeramy Alice, and now reside in Easton, Maryland