Kathleen Egan Author

David Egan is a Community Relations Specialist for the Government Affairs Team at SourceAmerica. Previously, he worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for twenty years. He sits on the boards of the Arc of Northern Virginia and the Down Syndrome Association of Northern Virginia and has been a board member of Special Olympics Virginia. He was the first person with an intellectual disability to be awarded a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Public Policy Fellowship, serving first in Congress with the Social Security subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee and then with the National Down Syndrome Society. A leader in the Special Olympics movement, in which he has competed in five sports, he was one of twelve worldwide Sargent Shriver International Global Messengers, serving as a spokesperson at the Summer International Games in Los Angeles, CA, and the Winter International Games in Austria. He has won many awards from the National Down Syndrome Society and the 2002 Virginia Special Olympics Hero's Award. Kathleen Egan is a retired professional whose career spanned a range of leadership positions in academia, government, and the private sector. Married and a parent of four adult children, she is an active advocate for people with intellectual disabilities at the local, national, and international levels.