Joseph Chenelly
National Executive Director, American Veterans (AMVETS)
2022
Joseph Chenelly is the national executive director of American Veterans (AMVETS), the nation’s most inclusive Congressionally-chartered veterans service organization, representing the interests of more than 19 million American veterans and their families. A combat veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Chenelly enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1998. Before becoming a veterans advocate, Chenelly was a Washington-based reporter for Gannet’s newspapers. He was named one of the “most influential journalists covering armed violence” in 2013.
The Eradicating Hate Global Summit was both eye-opening and empowering. To have so many experts in the field of countering hate, all there sharing their expertise, working towards practical and real world solutions, was incredibly unique. It is this focus on meaningful conversations, answers, and solutions that makes Eradicating Hate so incredibly important. The spread of hate is a wicked problem, and the way Eradicating Hate approaches it is how we are going to solve it.
