Director of New Hampshire Alliance of Immigrants and Refugees (NHAIR)
Dylan Hoey (he/him) is the Director of the New Hampshire Alliance of Immigrants and Refugees. He is a retired political officer in the U.S. Foreign Service with extensive experience in international human rights and immigration policy.
During his diplomatic career, Dylan was involved in major international response efforts. In Armenia, he directed U.S. consular response and citizen services during the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive against Nagorno Karabakh and managed nonimmigrant and immigrant visa teams of 20+ staff in consecutive roles.
He later served as part of the first U.S. consular team that evacuated U.S. citizens and immediate family members from Gaza in 2023. In Indonesia, Dylan spearheaded reporting on climate and human rights policy and was nominated for the U.S. federal labor diplomacy award for his engagement with labor unions across the archipelago.
Before joining the Foreign Service, he worked on immigration and refugee policy issues in South Asia and the Middle East.
Dylan holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow. He grew up in rural Maine and Wisconsin and is of mixed Brazilian ancestry, which shapes his current commitment to helping immigrant and marginalized communities integrate and thrive in rural and small-town communities across New Hampshire.
Welcoming New Hampshire Manager
David Holt (he/him) joined Welcoming NH in 2023. Born on a dairy farm in rural NH, David Received his BA in Sociology from the University of NH and his MBA from the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. David spent over a decade as a Business Consultant until leaving to make a difference. David has worked for a number of non profits AARP, LCV & Stamp Stampede. Since 2017 David was with the State Employees Agency as their Lead External Organizer, where he worked with the Fight for $15 Committee, the LGBTQ Caucus, founded the Campaign for Public good and Clinicians Untied NH and the NH Faith-Labor Coalition.
Outside of work David has volunteered with a number of organizations, mostly proudly as a founding member of Occupy NH Seacoast which started in 2011. Occupy Seacoast, among many other projects, organized the Women’s Marches in Portsmouth, having the largest such event in Portsmouth’s history with over 3,500 people shutting down the streets. Occupy also currently organizes Civil Rights Sundays since 2016 and organizes many national events for the seacoast. In addition, David has chaired or been a member of a number of community and statewide organizations.
