Staff

• Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund
• Carmel Martin, Executive Vice President, Policy
• Winnie Stachelberg, Executive Vice President, External Affairs

Senior Staff

• Shane Bateman, Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration; Chief Financial Officer
• Melissa Boteach, Vice President, Poverty to Prosperity Program
• Catherine Brown, Vice President, Education Policy
• Marlene Cooper Vasilic, Vice President, Outreach and Special Events
• Brian DeMarco, Vice President, Development
• Alex DeMots, Senior Vice President, General Counsel
• Greg Dotson, Vice President, Energy Policy
• Daniella Gibbs Léger, Senior Vice President, Communications and Strategy
• Lindsay Hamilton, Vice President, Chief of Staff
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• Deborah Holston, Vice President, Finance
• Marc Jarsulic, Vice President, Economic Policy
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• Judd Legum, Senior Vice President, Editor in Chief
• Chelsea Parsons, Vice President, Guns and Crime Policy
• Vikram Singh, Vice President, National Security and International Policy
• Michael Sozan, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
• Topher Spiro, Vice President, Health Policy
• Lauren Vicary, Vice President, Art and Editorial

Distinguished Senior Fellows

• Austan Goolsbee, Distinguished Senior Fellow
• Lawrence H. Summers, Distinguished Senior Fellow

Fellows and Scholars

The Senior Fellows program includes a broad and diverse community of policy experts and scholars who develop policy ideas and analysis that contribute to the progressive policy agenda of American Progress. These ideas help to shape and influence the public debate and policy debate about the most important issues facing our nation and the world. American Progress does not accept unsolicited proposals to participate in our Senior Fellows program.

• Nish Acharya, Senior Fellow
• Gautam Adhikari, Senior Fellow
• Eric Alterman, Senior Fellow
• Kellan Baker, Senior Fellow
• Michael Barr, Senior Fellow
• Maya Beasley, Nonresident Senior Fellow
• Daniel Benaim, CFR Fellow
• David A. Bergeron, Senior Fellow
• Donald M. Berwick, Senior Fellow
• Ulrich Boser, Senior Fellow
• Cynthia G. Brown, Senior Fellow
• Matt Browne, Senior Fellow
• Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, Fellow
• Aneesh Chopra, Senior Fellow
• Alan Cohen, Senior Fellow
• John B. Craig, Senior Fellow
• David M. Cutler, Senior Fellow
• William Danvers, Senior Fellow
• Rudy deLeon, Senior Fellow
• Mark Egerman, Senior Fellow
• Zeke Emanuel, Senior Fellow
• Dan Feldman, Senior Fellow
• Henry Fernandez, Senior Fellow
• Netsy Firestein, Senior Fellow
• Marshall Fitz, Senior Fellow
• Shawn Fremstad, Senior Fellow
• Jocelyn Frye, Senior Fellow
• Michael Fuchs, Senior Fellow
• Glen S. Fukushima, Senior Fellow
• Sam Fulwood III, Senior Fellow
• Arkadi Gerney, Senior Fellow
• Michael Golden, Senior Fellow
• Danielle Gray, Senior Fellow
• Ken Gude, Senior Fellow
• John Halpin, Senior Fellow
• David J. Hayes, Senior Fellow
• Ben Jealous, Senior Fellow
• Michele Jolin, Senior Fellow
• Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow
• Greg Kaufmann, Senior Fellow
• Cathleen Kelly, Senior Fellow
• Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow
• Adriana Kugler, Senior Fellow
• Hardin Lang, Senior Fellow
• Scott Lilly, Senior Fellow
• Joan Lombardi, Senior Fellow
• David Madland, Senior Fellow; Senior Advisor, American Worker Project
• Alan Makovsky, Senior Fellow
• Kate Martin, Senior Fellow
• Harold Meyerson, Senior Fellow
• Ian Millhiser, Senior Fellow
• Jonathan D. Moreno, Senior Fellow
• Adam Mount, Senior Fellow
• Pete Ogden, Senior Fellow
• Steve Phillips, Senior Fellow
• Dan Restrepo, Senior Fellow
• Bishop Gene Robinson, Senior Fellow
• Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow
• Shirley Sagawa, Senior Fellow
• Ganesh Sitaraman, Senior Fellow
• Trevor Sutton, Fellow
• Jamila Taylor, Senior Fellow
• Ruy Teixeira, Senior Fellow
• Paul Verkuil, Senior Fellow
• Judith Warner, Senior Fellow
• William F. Wechsler, Senior Fellow
• Christian E. Weller, Senior Fellow
• Michael Werz, Senior Fellow
• Ted Widmer, Senior Fellow

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• Carl Chancellor, Director, Editorial
• Katherine Downs, Assistant Editor
• Jason Fernandes, Assistant Editor
• Victoria Ford, Assistant Editor
• Chester Hawkins, Senior Graphic Designer
• Emily Haynes, Associate Editor
• Lauren Kokum, Assistant Editor
• Meredith Lukow, Managing Editor
• Meghan Miller, Associate Editor
• Pete Morelewicz, Director, Art
• Andrew Satter, Director, Video
• Aki Suzuki, Video Editor
• Erin Whalen, Associate Graphic Designer

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• Beatriz Lopez, Managing Director, Communications
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• Igor Volsky, Deputy Director
• Lauren Williams, Tech Reporter, ThinkProgress

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• Todd A. Cox, Director, Criminal Justice Policy

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• Jon Roux, Special Assistant
• Erin Sells, Foundation Relations Manager
• Maria Weaver, Associate Director, Development Operations

Early Childhood Policy

• Katie Hamm, Senior Director, Early Childhood Policy
• Rachel Herzfeldt-Kamprath, Policy Analyst
• Rasheed Malik, Policy Analyst
• Leila Schochet, Research Assistant
• Jessica Troe, Policy and Outreach Coordinator
• Rebecca Ullrich, Policy Analyst
• Simon Workman, Associate Director, Early Childhood Policy

Economic Policy

• Kate Bahn, Economist
• Kevin DeGood, Director, Infrastructure Policy
• Brendan Duke, Associate Director, Economic Policy
• Sarah Edelman, Director, Housing Policy
• Gregg Gelzinis, Special Assistant
• Andy Green, Managing Director, Economic Policy
• Ethan Gurwitz, Research Associate
• Angela Hanks, Associate Director, Workforce Development Policy
• Michael Madowitz, Economist
• Annie McGrew, Special Assistant
• Shiv Rawal, Research Assistant, Housing Policy
• Alex Rowell, Research Assistant
• Andrew Schwartz, Research Associate
• Harry Stein, Director, Fiscal Policy
• Alexandra Thornton, Senior Director, Tax Policy
• Joe Valenti, Director, Consumer Finance
• Karla Walter, Director, American Worker Project
• Regina Willensky, Policy Analyst
• Michela Zonta, Senior Policy Analyst, Housing Policy

Education Policy

• Perpetual Baffour, Research Assistant
• Samantha Batel, Policy Analyst
• Laura Jimenez, Director, Standards and Accountability
• Stephenie Johnson, Policy Analyst
• Annette Konoske-Graf, Policy Analyst
• Cherry Mullaguru, Special Assistant
• Neil Campbell, Director of Innovation
• Lisette Partelow, Director, Teacher Policy
• Will Ragland, Campaign Director, Education Policy
• Scott Sargrad, Managing Director, K-12 Education Policy
• Kami Spicklemire, Education Campaign Associate
• Coleton Whitaker, Education Campaign Associate

Energy

• Myriam Alexander-Kearns, Research Associate
• Erin Auel, Research Assistant
• Luke Bassett, Associate Director, Domestic Energy Policy
• Danielle Baussan, Managing Director, Energy Policy
• Alison Cassady, Director, Domestic Energy Policy
• Michael Conathan, Director, Ocean Policy
• Howard Marano, Research Assistant
• Miranda Peterson, Research Assistant
• Shiva Polefka, Policy Analyst, Oceans
• Avery Siciliano, Research Associate, Ocean Policy
• Gwynne Taraska, Associate Director, Energy Policy

Executive Office

• Hilary Badger, Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President for Policy
• Senya Merchant, Special Assistant to the Executive Team
• Maggie Polachek, Deputy Chief of Staff
• Cody Pomeranz, Speechwriter

External Affairs

• Elena Berger, Director, Email Marketing and Audience Relations
• Erin Cohan, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
• Pat Collier IV, Director, Government Affairs
• Ryan Collins, Associate Director, Government Affairs
• Tim Daly, Managing Director, Guns and Crime Policy
• Sabrina De Santiago, Director, Government Affairs
• Lisa DeCow, Email Marketing Manager
• Patrick Dolan, Intergovernmental Affairs Manager
• Jordan Jones, Research Associate, Guns and Crime Policy
• Chelsea Kearns, Special Assistant, External Affairs
• James King, Email Marketing Associate
• Greg Waples, Campaign Manager, Guns and Crime Policy
• Eugenio Weigend Vargas, Senior Policy Analyst, Guns and Crime Policy

Faith

• Claire Markham, Associate Director
• Tracy Wolf, Research Assistant

Finance

• Kola Adetola, Director, Accounting
• Deborah Alston, Accounts Payable Specialist
• Brion Elliott, Grant Accounting Manager
• Paul Haakenson, Administrative Coordinator
• Mildred Hardin, Accounts Payable Manager
• Antoine Jordan, Special Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration
• Clarice Pemberton-Cook, Staff Accountant

Generation Progress

• Liana Bishop, Digital Communications Associate
• Chelsea Coatney, Digital Director, Generation Progress
• Kyle Epstein, Press Associate
• Hannah Finnie, Senior Policy and Communications Associate
• Amber Gaither, Operations Coordinator
• Charlotte Hancock, Digital Director, Higher Ed Not Debt
• Christian Smith, Organizing Associate
• Maggie Thompson, Executive Director, Generation Progress
• Vincent Villano, Events Associate
• Layla Zaidane, Managing Director, Generation Progress

Health

• Maura Calsyn, Director, Health Policy
• Thomas Huelskoetter, Research Associate

Immigration

• Sanam Malik, Research Assistant
• Silva Mathema, Senior Policy Analyst
• Philip E. Wolgin, Managing Director, Immigration

LGBT

• Andrew Cray, In Memoriam
• Laura E. Durso, Senior Director, LGBT Research and Communications Project
• Sharita Gruberg, Senior Policy Analyst
• Shabab Ahmed Mirza, Research Assistant
• Aaron Ridings, Associate Director, LGBT Research and Communications Project
• Caitlin Rooney, Reseach Assistant

Legal

• Anne Dechter, Legal Counsel
• Audrey Juarez, Legal Project Coordinator
• Praveen Madhiraju, Legal Counsel
• Gerti Wilson, Legal Assistant

National Security and International Policy

• Muath Al Wari, Senior Policy Analyst
• Alia Awadallah, Research Associate, Middle East
• Nathan Fenstermacher, Managing Director, National Security and International Policy
• Brian Harding, Director, East and Southeast Asia
• Melanie Hart, Senior Fellow; Director, China Policy
• Max Hoffman, Associate Director, National Security and International Policy
• Blaine Johnson, Research Associate, China and Asia Policy
• Peter Juul, Policy Analyst
• Carolyn Kenney, Research Associate
• Meredith Leal, Special Assistant
• Joel Martinez, Mexico Research Associate
• John Norris, Executive Director, Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative
• Ken Sofer, Senior Policy Advisor

Postsecondary Education

• Elizabeth Baylor, Director, Postsecondary Education
• Marcella Bomardieri, Senior Policy Analyst
• Antoinette Flores, Policy Analyst
• CJ Libassi, Policy Analyst
• Ben Miller, Senior Director, Postsecondary Education

Poverty

• Rejane Frederick, Associate Director, Poverty to Prosperity Program
• Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Director, Family Policy
• Jackie Odum, Research Associate
• Mara Pellittieri, Deputy Editor, Talk Poverty
• Anusha Ravi, Special Assistant
• Michael Richardson, Field Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator
• Eliza Schultz, Special Assistant
• Jeremy Slevin, Associate Director of Advocacy
• Rebecca Vallas, Managing Director, Poverty to Prosperity Program
• Rachel West, Associate Director, Poverty to Prosperity Program

Technology

• Christopher Bachmann, UNIX Systems Administrator
• Malik Bland, Help Desk Technician
• J.R. Boynton, Outreach Systems and Analytics Manager
• Top Chamatsang, Desktop Support Lead Technician
• Craig Chambers, Director of Information Security and Operations
• John Cruces, Information Security and Systems Engineer
• Demetrick DeVille, Desktop Support Technician
• Shar Ghavami, Director, Technology Development
• Eric Helvey, Chief Software Architect
• James Honaker, Web Developer, Special Projects
• Sarah Husband, Salesforce Solution Developer
• Rhonda Malone, Director, Information Technology
• Lauren Orsini, Web Developer
• Horace Payne, Desktop Support Manager
• Alex Pryor, A/V and Systems Engineer
• Trinetra Rawls, Salesforce Administrator
• Ron Warren, Web Developer

Women's Health

• Heidi Williamson, Senior Policy Analyst

Women's Initiative

• Danielle Corley, Research Assistant, Women's Economic Policy
• Sunny Frothingham, Senior Researcher
• Sarah Jane Glynn, Director, Women's Economic Policy
• Kaitlin Holmes, Special Assistant
• Shilpa Phadke, Senior Director, Women's Initiative