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. (TBLC) – a statewide network of CEOs and w Current Company and position: Texas senior business executives working toward a homelessness relief services. As a result of w w Business Leadership Council - Vice President more globally competitive Texas. Under the partnership with the Irish Consulate, of Operations and Outreach Joyce’s leadership, the TBLC has expanded Joyce has been invited to meet with Irish Best advice you could give someone its national role, actively advocating for a Taoiseachs Leo Varadkar and Enda Kenny, starting out: Be humble, ask questions, revamp of NAFTA (now USMCA) and rallying and has formally briefed former Minister of anticipate needs, and take initiative. When business leaders to argue the economic State for Diaspora and International taking initiative, ask for and be open to benefits of preserving the Deferred Action for Development, Jimmy Deenihan, TD and Irish feedback. Part of the reason you were hired Childhood Arrivals – or “DREAMers” Act – Senator for the Diaspora, Billy Lawless. Joyce was to take burden off your superior and which include hundreds of Irish born also serves on the Hibernian Charity a 501c3 other staff - find ways to do just that then millennials who came to the U.S. as children. whose mission is to fulfill the AOH promises innovate and automate. On the home front, Joyce has helped raise of Friendship, Unity, and Charity throughout Three things people would be surprised to $2.25M in just over three years and has the Order. know about me: organized dozens of events with Texas state Joyce has served his community locally as 1. My friends and I get together once a year, and national elected leaders, educating a Commissioner for the City of Austin’s in a different state, to go bass fishing. So far lawmakers and stakeholders on issues Economic Prosperity Commission, and was we've fished 20% of the country, with the ranging from school choice and workforce appointed by City Councilwoman Ellen goal of visiting every state in the Union. We education to economic incentives for Troxclair in 2016 to represent District 8. He celebrate 11 years this April in Alabama. businesses relocating to Texas and also served on the city’s Parkland Events 2. My wife and I are proud Homebrewers, cybersecurity. In 2017, Joyce was integral in Taskforce in 2015. In 2011 he was named a having crafted my first beer with my college the passage of Texas House Bill 8 – the Fellow with the Charles G. Koch Institute in roommate in 2006. We had two goals; could “Texas Cybersecurity Act” – the most Washington, D.C. we make it taste "ok" and, after three, could comprehensive cybersecurity reform package Joyce graduated from George Mason we catch a buzz? Happy to report, it was a in the state’s history. University in Fairfax, Virginia where he Success! Prior to joining the TBLC, Joyce served as earned a degree in Public Administration, 3. While at GMU, I was elected Student Body the Director of Events at the Texas Public with a concentration in American Vice President and campaigned on the issue Policy Foundation (TPPF). Under his tenure, Government. He, his wife Shana, son Michael of adding public wi-fi to the student unions. Joyce successfully managed several high- and Black Lab "Darby" enjoy calling the south How do you celebrate your Irish heritage? profile conventions which featured some of side of Austin, Texas their home.

Maura Grace Harrington Logue aura has distinguished herself in the Series_. This well-researched book, _The Irish- Where you live: Clifton, New Jersey fields of higher education, Irish Studies American Experience in New Jersey and Place of Birth: Passaic, New Jersey Mscholarship, and communications Metropolitan New York: Cultural Identity, Age: 39 consulting. Montclair, New Jersey, is her Hybridity, and Commemoration_, which Status: Married hometown. She graduated from Lacordaire focuses on the Irish-American experience in Family: husband Peter, sons Seamus Jude Academy and earned her B.A. at Caldwell New York and New Jersey, has been printed in (age 2) and Ruairi Brian (age 1), parents College (now Caldwell University). hardcover (2013) and paperback (2015), as well Eileen and James Harrington, sister Eilish Maura began teaching at Seton Hall as released digitally (2013), by Lexington Rosanna Harrington, uncle Douglas Booth, University in 2001 at age 21 (when she was a books, and it gave rise to the inaugural issue of parents-in-law Dolores and James Logue, graduate student), and during her tenure at an e-journal about the Irish-American and extended family. Seton Hall she has taught face-to-face courses experience in the Tri-State area that Maura and First Job: Running a summer camp for and online courses in literature and writing, Marta edited. neighborhood children in my family’s developing online curriculum and course For her distinguished performance in backyard when I was 11. templates. She also has participated in many teaching and scholarship, and for her voluntary What it taught me: How to create and University-wide faculty initiatives. development of valuable cultural programming promote a “business,” manage people (small Maura completed her Ph.D. in literature, on campus, Maura was honored by the _Irish people, but people nonetheless) who have specializing in Modern Irish literature, at Drew Voice_ in the _Irish Education 100_ list in 2014, competing interests, and incorporate University when she was 30. Upon her at age 35. creativity into my work graduation, she received an award for the best Maura is an active alumna of Seton Hall Current Company and position: Graceful performance on comprehensive exams and for University, having earned her M.A. in English at Grammarian, LLC (communications the strongest dissertation. Her dissertation Seton Hall in 2003. With her sister, Eilish (a _40 consulting) – Owner and operator focused on the supernatural in Modern Irish Under 40_ honoree in 2016), she is a club leader Best advice you could give someone literature. of the Pirates of Irish Persuasion & Extraction starting out: NEVER make a final decision on Maura has close to 20 scholarly publications, Alumni Club, and each year she is instrumental what you want to do when you grow up! including book chapters and articles in peer- in planning the Irish Mass and Dinner and Irish Three things people would be surprised to reviewed journals. Her main areas of research Heritage Week events. know about me: are Irish literature, Catholicism in Irish literature, Maura has been involved as an officer in the 1. I've never been to Ireland. Irish-American studies, and the Irish influence in Newark, NJ, St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee 2. I'm terrified of birds. literature in English. She has conducted a great and as a member of several community groups 3. I won't eat sushi. deal of original research, for much of which she in her hometown of Montclair, NJ, as well as in How do you celebrate your Irish heritage? used rarely-reviewed archival texts. her parish. Since the time when I dressed as “Little In 2010, Maura founded the _Irish Studies In the most recent years, Maura has Miss Ireland” for Halloween when I was 3, I Discussion Series_ at Seton Hall, which has expanded her professional vistas, using her have pretty consistently celebrated my brought more than two dozen speakers to extensive training and teaching experience in family’s roots in Counties Clare, Cork, and campus to discuss topics related to the Irish and language and literature to establish her Mayo. I enjoy being involved in Irish- Irish-American experience. She has worked hard communications consulting business, The American organizations, and these days, I to coordinate these events, which are presented Graceful Grammarian. Writers, businesses, and relish seeing how excited my sons get when by standouts in the Irish-American community. organizations seek Maura out to coordinate listening to Irish music. The most concerted Because of the success of the _Irish Studies social media, consult on manuscript effort I have made to celebrate and learn Discussion Series_, she and Seton Hall preparation, and create and optimize content for more about my heritage has been in my colleague Marta Mestrovic Deyrup edited a digital and print public relations materials. scholarship, from my undergraduate career book based on the topics presented in the first Maura operates this business from home while to today. two years of the _Irish Studies Discussion raising her children.