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Matthew Doyle

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Matt Doyle is a JD-MBA student at Northwestern Law School and Kellogg Business School. He received his M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and his B.A. in Economics and Public Policy Studies from Duke University. Doyle served as a legislative aide for Senator Joseph Lieberman on issues related to transportation policy, particularly the $286.4 billion "SAFETEA-LU" bill that addressed federal regulations on transportation, and re-authorized federal funding for highways, bridges, tunnels, and ferries through 2010. Since moving to Chicago in the summer of 2005, Doyle has helped create a non-violence project at the Institute for International Sport. The project trains coaches and young athletes, particularly "at-risk" student-athletes, to use sports as a way to promote disciplined, competitive, but non-violent behavior. The project was inspired by Doyle after undergoing extensive surgery and spending two months in a Chicago hospital because of a brutal and random act of violence toward him by four teenagers - high-school freshmen who had just begun a gang initiation. In an extraordinary act of forgiveness, Doyle told the teenage attackers that he wanted them to have a "second chance" to improve their lives, and supported the court's decision to give the attackers only a six-month sentence in juvenile jail, followed by a variety of rehabilitation efforts, as a reasonable response to the teenagers' crime. Doyle has also volunteered as a peer visitor at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

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