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Joan Timoney Joins Women’s Commission as Director of Advocacy and External Relations

New York, NY

Joan Timoney, currently Vice President for Programs of the Partnership for Public Service, has been hired as director of advocacy and external relations at the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. She will be based in the Women’s Commission’s Washington, D.C., office and will start December 19.

Ms. Timoney has been vice president for programs at the Partnership for Public Service since 2001, when she helped launch the nonprofit organization which works to revitalize the federal civil service and inspire a new generation to serve.

Ms. Timoney began her career in 1976 in the office of then-House Majority Whip John Brademas of Indiana. Two years later, she left Washington to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, West Africa. Upon her return in 1981, she worked as a legislative assistant to the late Senator Quentin Burdick of North Dakota and as a Special Assistant to Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND).

In 1993, Ms. Timoney was appointed the Director of Congressional Relations at the Peace Corps. She later served as the first director of the Agency’s Crisis Corps program and as its Chief of Staff.

Ms. Timoney is a graduate of The George Washington University and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.