He earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown, his Masters of Law from New York University, and his Bachelor of Arts from Catholic University. He was named both a Skadden Fellow and a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School, and served as a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Inside the lives of homeless teens-moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from. His book about 6 youth facing homelessness in Canada and the United States, Almost Home, was a collaboration with former New York Times reporter Tina Kelley and became a national best seller in 2012. At Covenant House, Ryan and the Covenant House team have expanded the agency's reach to 31 cities in 6 countries, most recently Chicago, Berkeley, York, Grand Rapids and Asbury Park. He was subsequently nominated and confirmed to lead a reform of the state’s child welfare system as New Jersey’s first commissioner of the Department of Children and Families.
During the 1990s, Ryan spent a decade on the front lines of Covenant House’s work with youth on the streets of New York and New Jersey before becoming New Jersey's first public Child Advocate. Ryan, his wife and six children have been residents of Fair Haven, New Jersey.Kevin Ryan is the President and CEO of Covenant House International, the largest charity in North and Central America helping children and youth facing homelessness, trafficking and exploitation. Under Ryan’s leadership, Covenant House is also a leader for social change, building an international Sleep Out movement that has galvanized thousands of business executives, Broadway stars, political leaders and young professionals to experience a night of homelessness in solidarity with homeless young people across six countries. The charity’s international human rights work has been awarded the Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Award, the Olof Palme Award, the United States Department of State Hero Citation, and the Guatemala Hands of Peace Award.
He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, where his blog on human trafficking and children’s welfare is a staple of the Impact Section.Covenant House reports that it reaches more than 50,000 children and young people annually in United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Along with former New York Times reporter Tina Kelley, he is the co-author of the national best seller, Almost Home: Helping Kids from Homelessness to Hope, which chronicles the struggles and triumphs of six homeless teenagers as they face exploitation, addiction, human trafficking and pregnancy. Kevin Ryan (born 1967), is the president and CEO of Covenant House International, one of the largest charities in North and Central America serving homeless, trafficked and sexually exploited youth.
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