Sabine
O'Hara
Sabine O'Hara is Dean & Director of Landgrant Programs of the
new College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental
Sciences (CAUSES) of UDC. In 2010 she founded Global Ecology to assist
universities, governments and non-profits in increasing success by
developing relevant curricula, research programs and community
partnerships. She is a respected author, researcher and higher
education executive who is well known for her expertise in sustainable
economic development, global education and executive leadership. Video (1)
; Video (2)
Jeffrey
O'Hara, Agricultural Economist
Jeffrey O'Hara works for the Food & Environment Program at the
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
CQ-Roll
Call: Joan O'Hara
Joan O’Hara, general counsel for the House Homeland Security
Committee, is interviewed by CQ Roll Call in her Ford Building office,
January 20, 2016. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call).
Speaker
Biography: Joan
V. O'Hara General Counsel, House Homeland Security Committee,
Washington, DC
Joan O’Hara joined the Committee on Homeland Security as
Counsel in August 2011. In 2013, she was named Deputy General Counsel
under Chairman Michael McCaul, and became General Counsel in 2014.
As General Counsel, Joan helps to develop and implement the Com
mittee’s legislative agenda. She also serves as the
Chairman’s primary legal advisor. During Chairman
McCaul’s tenure to date, Joan has helped the Committee to
pass more than 100 bills through t
he House, several of which have become public law, including measures
on cybersecurity, aviation and border security, and the efficient
management of the Department of Homeland Security. Joan also serves as
lead on special Committee projects. Currently, she is coordinating
the committee’s efforts on digital security and encryption,
and was named to Congressional Quarterly’s (CQ) “25
Most Influential on Capitol Hill, 2016” for her work on those
issues.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Joan spent more than a decade in
professional athletics. A Resident Athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training
Center in San Diego, CA, Joan was a sculler training with the U.S.
National Rowing Team, and was United States National Champion in the
single and quadruple sculls. Upon retiring, Joan began a career an
award-winning NCAA Division I rowing coach. She was Head Coach at both
Wellesley College in Boston, and the University of San Diego.
A Long Island native, Joan earned her JD, cum laude from New York Law
School, and delivered the commencement address at her class graduation.
During law school, Joan served as Research Assistant to Nadine
Strossen, President of the ACLU from 1991-
2008, and clerked for both the New York State Appellate Division, First
Department, and the New York State Supreme Court, Commercial Division,
in M
anhattan. In addition to her JD, Joan holds a MA from San Diego State
University and a BA from Loyola College in Maryland.
Speaker Biographies |
Homeland Security Law Institute | August 24-25, 2016.
Profile
Joan O'Hara: Rowing led to law school, Homeland Security panel
Joan O'Hara is the general counsel
at the House Committee on Homeland Security. Washington Examiner
interview with Joan O'Hara (September 19, 2016).
Sales
Associate Joe O'Hara, Washington Fine Properties, LLC
A native Washingtonian
and Realtor
associate with Washington Fine Properties, Joe specializes in
residential real estate sales (new construction and existing homes) in
the greater Washington DC area.
O'Hara
Federal Strategies, LLC
O'Hara Federal
Strategies was founded in Washington, DC in 2011 by the father/daughter
team, respected long time legislative consultant Bartley
O’Hara and his daughter Lizzy O’Hara.
Mary
O'Hara Papers
Memoranda by Kent Kane Parrot, son of Mary O'Hara, describing the
founding of the Markane Company, Inc., in 1960, to promote her musical
play, "The Catch Colt." Total 2 pages. Page 3 contains information
about the annual Mary O'Hara Memorial Piano Competition, established at
Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., by the Markane
Company.
Historical
Publications Specialist Laura Turner O'Hara
Guest post, entitled History, Art & Archives, U.S.
House of Representatives: A One-Stop-Shop for House Heritage,
by Laura Turner O’Hara, Historical Publications Specialist in
the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.
Laura
Turner O'Hara talks about former Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels
Video in which Laura Turner O'Hara talks about former Senator
Hiram Rhodes Revels (MS-R), the first black to serve in Congress, from
1869-70, and responds to questions from members of the audience.
Tribute
to
Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels by Laura Turner O'Hara
The U.S. Capitol Historical Society hosts historian Laura Turner O'Hara
for a lecture on former Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African
American elected to Congress.
Laura O'Hara & Dave O'Hara Members of Gerorgetown Running Club.
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