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Sam Adler-Bell
Senior Policy Associate
Sam Adler-Bell is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation.
Molly Bangs
Senior Associate
Molly Bangs is senior associate at The Century Foundation, whose writing focuses on women's and human rights as well as social and environmental justice.
Thanassis Cambanis
Senior Fellow
Thanassis Cambanis is a journalist specializing in the Middle East and American foreign policy.
Yan Cao
Fellow
Yan Cao is a fellow at The Century Foundation where she works on higher education policy with a focus on expanding opportunity, reducing inequality, and ensuring fair outcomes for students.
Michael Cassidy
Fellow
Michael Cassidy is a fellow at The Century Foundation.
Stefanie A. DeLuca
Fellow
Stefanie DeLuca teaches sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her current research uses interdisciplinary frameworks and multiple methodologies to examine the sociology of education, urban sociology, neighborhoods and social inequality in the life course.
Dina Esfandiary
Fellow
Dina Esfandiary is a fellow at The Century Foundation. Her research focuses on Persian Gulf security, Iran’s foreign relations, and relations between states and non-proliferation in the Middle East.
Denise Forte
Senior Fellow
Denise Forte is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, focused on issues related to K-12 and higher education, including efforts to increase the diversity, quality, and accountability of schools.
Barton Gellman
Senior Fellow
Barton Gellman is a critically honored author, journalist, and blogger. His professional distinctions include two Pulitzer Prizes (individual and team), the George Polk Award, and Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting.
Tariq Habash
Senior Policy Associate
Tariq Habash is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation focusing on higher education education policy and the for-profit sector.
Michael Wahid Hanna
Senior Fellow
Michael Wahid Hanna focuses on issues of international security, international law, and U.S. foreign policy in the broader Middle East and South Asia.
Paul Jargowsky
Fellow
Paul Jargowsky is a fellow at The Century Foundation where he writes about inequality, the geographic concentration of poverty, and residential segregation by race and class.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Senior Fellow
Richard D. Kahlenberg focuses on education, equal opportunity, and civil rights. He is the author of six books and editor of 10 Century Foundation volumes.
Julie Kashen
Senior Fellow
Julie Kashen is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation with expertise in working families, economic mobility, labor, and poverty.
Edward D. Kleinbard
Fellow
Edward D. Kleinbard is the Johnson Professor of Law and Business at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. Professor Kleinbard's work focuses on the taxation of capital income, international tax issues, and the political economy of taxation.
Jeanne Lambrew
Senior Fellow
Jeanne Lambrew, PhD, is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and an adjunct professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her writing, research, and teaching focus on policies to improve health care access, affordability, and quality.
Aron Lund
Fellow
Aron Lund is a Swedish writer on Middle Eastern affairs and a fellow at The Century Foundation who has published several books and reports on Syrian politics.
Jeff Madrick
Fellow
Jeff Madrick is a fellow at The Century Foundation and director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative.
Moshe Marvit
Fellow
Moshe Z. Marvit, an employment discrimination and labor attorney, worked at the National Labor Relations Board and was an editor at the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal.
Tatiana Melguizo
Fellow
Tatiana Melguizo is an associate professor in the USC Rossier School of Education. She works in the field of economics of higher education. She uses quantitative methods of analysis to study the association of different factors, educational programs, as well as public policies on the persistence and educational outcomes of minority and low-income students.
Jen Mishory
Senior Fellow
Jen Mishory is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, working on issues related to workforce and higher education, and a senior policy advisor. Prior to joining TCF, Jen co-founded and served as the Executive Director of Young Invincibles, which has grown to become the largest advocacy organization in the country representing young Americans.
Amanda Novello
Policy Associate
Amanda Novello is a policy associate at The Century Foundation and works with Century’s Rediscovering Government Initiative. Her research interests include labor economics, the history of policy and economic development, and progressive economic policy.
Harold Pollack
Fellow
Fellow Harold Pollack focuses on issues of Economics and Inequality. He is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago.
Halley Potter
Senior Fellow
Halley Potter is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where she researches public policy solutions for addressing educational inequality.
Kimberly Quick
Senior Policy Associate
Kimberly Quick is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation working on education policy in the foundation’s Washington, D.C. office.
William M. Rodgers III
Fellow
William M. Rodgers, III is a fellow at The Century Foundation and professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.
Laura A. Schifter
Fellow
Laura A. Schifter, Ed.D., is a Lecturer on Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also works as a research consultant studying issues related to special education policy and practice.
Stephen Schlesinger
Fellow
Stephen Schlesinger is a fellow specializing in foreign policy. He is also the former director of the World Policy Institute at the New School (1997–2006) and former publisher of the quarterly magazine, the World Policy Journal.
Robert Shireman
Senior Fellow
Robert Shireman is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation working on education policy with a focus on for-profit college accountability, quality assurance, and consumer protections.
Andrew Stettner
Senior Fellow
Andrew Stettner is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, focusing on modernizing workforce protections and social insurance programs.
Shayna Strom
Senior Fellow
Shayna Strom is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where she works on issues related to the future of work, future of organizing, poverty, and inequality.
Conor P. Williams
Fellow
Conor P. Williams is a fellow at The Century Foundation, where he writes about education, immigration, early education, school choice, and work-life balance challenges for American families. He is an expert on American educational inequity, English learner students, dual immersion programs, urban education reform, and the history of progressivism.
Mark Zuckerman
President
Mark Zuckerman is President of The Century Foundation, served as President Obama's Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council from 2011 to 2013, and is a former Democratic Staff Director of the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee.
Staff
Nezam Aziz
Director of Finance
Nezam Aziz is the Director of Finance at The Century Foundation.
John Baronian
Director of Technology
John Baronian is the Director of Technology at The Century Foundation.
Casey Berkovitz
Digital Media & Press Associate
Casey Berkovitz is the Digital Media and Press Associate at The Century Foundation.
Alex Edwards
Director of Communications
Alex Edwards is the Director of Communications at The Century Foundation, where he leads efforts to elevate the organization's ideas and impact in the media, among policymakers, and with key stakeholders.
Abigail Grimshaw
Director of Production
Abby is The Century Foundation’s Director of Production. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute, where she earned a BFA degree in Communications Design with a concentration in Advertising Art Direction.
Trudy Kowlessar
Executive Coordinator
Trudy Kowlessar is The Century Foundation's executive coordinator.
Patricia Kozu
Chief Operating Officer
Pat Kozu is chief operating officer at The Century Foundation. She is on the Board of Directors of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of NY, a member of the U.S.-Japan Council, and on the Steering Committee of the Asian Women Giving Circle.
Lucy Muirhead
Chief Strategy Officer
Lucy Muirhead is the Chief Strategy Officer for The Century Foundation.
Gloria Ramón
Director of Development
Gloria Ramón is the development director at The Century Foundation.
Jason Renker
Vice President of Editorial
Jason Renker manages the editing, production, and distribution of the foundation's books and other publications.
Mark Zuckerman
President
Mark Zuckerman is President of The Century Foundation, served as President Obama's Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council from 2011 to 2013, and is a former Democratic Staff Director of the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee.