BRADY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance
- Vice President, Finance & Administration
Bindu Macchiavello is the Director of Finance for Brady. She is responsible for implementing and managing financial-related activities across the organization which includes financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, financial systems management, accounting and treasury operations. Prior to joining Brady, Bindu was the Director of Financial Management and Business Operations at AARP where she established, managed and enhanced financial processes and was responsible for a $500M expense budget. Previously, Bindu was the Manager of Treasury Operations at US Airways where she developed processes to manage $11 billion in domestic and international cash transactions. Bindu is a CPA and has an MBA in Finance from George Washington University and a BS in Accounting from George Mason University.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Communications
Cordy Galligan is Brady's Vice President of Communications and leads the communications and marketing efforts in support of Brady's strategic agenda as well as initiatives to bring together all Americans interested in ending gun violence.
Cordy's extensive background in senior leadership spans many issues, including stints with leading animal rights and women's empowerment organizations, both locally and on the national level. She excels at distilling brands to their essence and engaging the public to achieve organizational goals.
A gifted public speaker (decades of stage training helps!) Cordy also channels her inner thespian through speech writing and directing award winning videos and PSAs.
She lives in Great Falls with her daughter and grandcats!
Job Titles:
- Senior Counsel, Trial & Appellate Litigation
As a former public defender, civil practice attorney, and Obama appointee to the DOL, Erin Davis has more than a decade of experience as a trial attorney representing those injured. She uses her vast litigation experience to help victims of gun violence find justice against the gun industry for the devastation they cause their families and others.
Job Titles:
- Chief Counsel and Vice President, Legal
- Vice President, Legal and Chief Counsel
Jonathan E. Lowy is the Vice President, Legal and Chief Counsel at Brady. Since 1997 Jon has argued in courts across the country to reduce gun violence, providing pro bono legal representation to victims of gun violence in lawsuits to reform dangerous gun industry practices, and assisting governments and public officials in defense of reasonable gun laws. Jon has litigated in over 40 states, successfully arguing several precedent-setting cases in appellate and trial courts establishing gun industry liability and Second Amendment law, obtaining several multi-million dollar settlements, and reforming gun industry practices. Jon has been named one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America by Lawdragon magazine for the past 10 years, and has published numerous articles on gun litigation and policy including, The Right Not To Be Shot: Public Safety, Private Guns, and the Constellation of Constitutional Liberties in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Policy. He graduated from Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Jonathan E. Lowy is Chief Counsel and Vice President, Legal, at Brady, where for over 20 years he has represented victims of gun violence in lawsuits to reform dangerous gun industry practices and assisted governments and public officials in defense of reasonable gun laws. Named as one of the nation's 500 leading lawyers, Jon has litigated in over 40 states to reduce gun violence, including winning several landmark trial and appellate rulings, settlements, and verdicts. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Senior Counsel and Director of Racial Justice
With experience in litigation, human capital consulting, and diversity and inclusion, Kelly amplifies Brady's legal expertise by cultivating an effective pro bono attorney network, promoting Brady's perspective in gun violence related cases, and addressing the gun industry's disproportionate impact on communities of color.
As President of Brady, Kris Brown combines a lifelong background in policy and grassroots activism with considerable strategic management expertise to help forge the direction of the organization's campaigns and ensure the successful impact of its national and field assets.
As President of Brady, Kris Brown combines a lifelong background in policy, law, and grassroots activism with considerable strategic management expertise to help forge the direction of the organization's programs and ensure the successful impact of its national and field assets. A veteran of gun violence prevention work, Ms. Brown started her career on Capitol Hill working for Rep. Jim Moran, advocating for the bill that would eventually become the groundbreaking Brady Bill requiring background checks on federally licensed gun sales. Ms. Brown has also served as the Chief Legal Officer to a publicly traded company based in Switzerland and as a lawyer practicing at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She lives in Arlington, VA, with her two teenage daughters.
A noted speaker and media commentator, Ms. Brown was featured in the November 2018 TIME magazine cover article, "Guns in America," in which she noted that Brady is working to move the discussion of gun violence beyond the polarizing politics in American life. "There's a huge amount of common ground on this issue in this country and I hope we're finally at a tipping point where we can move forward with legislation and [programs] that actually protect people, and are entirely consistent with the Second Amendment."
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University 's Masters
Kyleanne is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Masters' in National Security Studies program. She also serves as the chair of the Employment and Integration subcommittee of the Secretary of Defenses' Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
Job Titles:
- Gun Violence Survivor & Vice President, Development
Liz is happy to serve team Brady as the Vice President of Development. She brings deep expertise in non-profit management, strategy, and organizational development, having worked primarily in the public education policy and philanthropic sectors over her 20-year career. Liz previously served as Brady's Director of Institutional Giving. Prior to that position, she was the Senior Vice President of Programs for the NEA Foundation. She earned her B.A. with high honors from Kenyon College and her M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.
Liz is also a gun violence survivor. In 2003, her mother was shot and killed answering the door of her home. It took nearly 12 years to bring the killer to justice. That long-awaited guilty verdict prompted her to become a more public gun violence prevention advocate. In 2017, Liz celebrated her 40th birthday, and what would have been her mom's 70th birthday, by launching Run Lizzie Run. She ran the D.C. Rock 'n' Roll marathon on her mom's birthday, raising nearly $30,000 for Brady in the process.
Today, Liz lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two sons. Between chasing her kids and running races, she is almost always in comfortable shoes.
Job Titles:
- Counsel, Trial & Appellate Litigation
After graduating from Harvard College in 2011 and Harvard Law School in 2014, Robert worked in private law in New York City before returning to help Brady (he was a legal intern the summer of 2012!) by fighting and winning crucial legal battles that will curtail this nation's gun violence epidemic.
Job Titles:
- Gun Violence Survivor & Vice President, Policy
- Vice President of Policy
T. Christian Heyne is the Vice President of Policy at Brady, leading all legislative efforts at the federal and state level. Prior to assuming this position, Christian served as the legislative director at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
Christian grew up in Thousand Oaks, California. He began advocating for stronger gun laws after a man with a history of violence shot his parents on Memorial Day 2005. His father survived multiple gunshots, but his mother was killed. In the wake of this tragedy, Christian and his Dad started a chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Ventura County and helped to pass a number of local ordinances, such as a requirement to report lost and stolen handguns. Shortly thereafter he started Brady's only collegiate chapter at California State University, Chico. In that role in 2007, he helped lobby for AB 1471, which required the implementation of microstamping technology as a crime-solving tool in California.
During his career in the gun violence prevention movement, Christian has worked to build consensus both in the states and in Congress. Christian has successfully developed, lobbied, and helped implement a variety of local, state, and federal policies. Recently, Christian worked in 13 states across the country to help introduce and pass extreme risk laws, which allow families and law enforcement to work with courts to remove guns from individuals at an increased risk of violent behavior. He has also collaborated with law enforcement and stakeholders in a number of states to ensure these policies are implemented as effectively as possible. Christian prioritizes strong relationships across the spectrum of the gun violence prevention movement and its relevant partners - from those in academia to policymakers to implementers. He strives to ensure that survivor voices are genuinely heard and reflected in each stage of this work.
After receiving a Legal Studies degree and a Paralegal Certificate from California State University, Chico, Christian moved to Washington, D.C., where he currently resides.