Daphne Kenyon and her husband, Peter Kachavos, have lived in Windham for 19 years. They have a 17-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. Kenyon was born in Georgia and lived in the Midwest most of her life before moving to New Hampshire for the first time in 1979. Her husband’s family settled in Derry in the 1920s.
Daphne Kenyon is an economist who specializes in public policy
issues facing state and local government. Three particular areas of expertise are school funding, property tax relief, and livable wage jobs. She heads D. A. Kenyon & Associates, a public policy consulting firm, and serves as a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is also a fellow with the Carsey Institute of the University of New Hampshire. Before opening her own consulting firm, Daphne headed the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank in Concord, New Hampshire. She was an economics professor for many years, first at Dartmouth College, then at Simmons College, where she served as department chair. She earned her B.A. in economics from Michigan State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Daphne serves on New Hampshire’s State Board of Education (she was Governor John Lynch’s first appointee to that board) and on the Education Commission of the States. The number one priority of the State Board of Education is making sure that every child in New Hampshire graduates from high school.
Previously Daphne was elected to the Windham School Board as a write-in candidate.
