Chief Academic and Outreach Officer at The Junior Statesmen Foundation. Larry Guillemette serves a member of the Junior Statesmen Foundation’s senior management team in his position as Chief Academic and Outreach Officer. He has over 25 years experience working in the fields of civic and experiential education. Larry began his relationship with The Junior Statesmen Foundation more than 20 years ago when he opened the JSF’s first office in Washington, DC while serving as the Director of East Coast and Texas Program for the Junior State. In 1992, he moved on to serve as the Director of the Institute on Political Journalism at the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University and later served as the Executive Director of the American Institute of Architecture Students.
For more than 10 years, Larry was the principal of a boutique meeting and event management consulting firm that organized and executed major events including international conferences and trade shows, product launches and fund raising events. Prior to rejoining the Junior Statesmen Foundation, Larry was the Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at Academic Travel Abroad, an industry leader in providing in-depth adult travel learning programs. At ATA, Larry worked closely with arts, educational and other cultural non-profit organizations as that use travel as part of their fund raising strategies.
Larry’s work in civic education began when he served as the Director of Educational Programs for the Congressional Youth Leadership Council, where he was responsible for such programs as the National Young Leaders Conference, the Washington Journalism Conference and the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference.
He began his professional career in Washington, DC on the staff of a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from his home state of New Jersey and later returned to the Garden State to do political fundraising for a beloved Governor.
Larry has traveled extensively throughout the USA and around the world, and currently serves on the Advisory Committee of the Fund for Education Abroad. He is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s High School in Metuchen, NJ and he received his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
