Kevin Kane

Kevin Patrick Kane June 12, 1966 – October 27, 2016) was a public policy analyst who was the founder and president of the Pelican Institute for Public Policy in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A native of Mineola, New York, Kane graduated in 1984 from Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Tulane University in New Orleans, at which he was the captain and president of the rugby team. In 1993, Kane graduated from the Loyola University Law School in New Orleans. He worked earlier in his career in Mobile, Alabama, and in New York City. After Hurricane Katrina, Kane returned to New Orleans and founded the Pelican Institute with the original mission to aid recovery efforts through innovative policy solutions. Under his leadership, Pelican became a pioneer for free market policies and for school choice. He also worked to secure criminal sentencing reform in Louisiana. Kane was an ad hoc ambassador for New Orleans and its music and culture when he attended national conferences and visiting conventions. He served on the board of the Choice Foundation and the Center for Development and Learning and was a fellow at the Loyola Institute of Politics. He was also affiliated with the Rotary Club and the Stratford Club.

Kane died at the age of fifty of gastrointestinal cancer. He was survived by his wife of seventeen years, the former Lesley Vance; his daughters, Margaret Chamberlin "Molly" Kane and Vivian Ruth Kane; his mother, Kate Stowe Kane of Centerport, New York, and brothers, David Kane of Newark, New Jersey, and Tim Kane of Brooklyn, New York. He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph Patrick Kane. A memorial service was held on November 4, 2016, at the St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder.

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