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Who we are

Leadership and Staff

Leadership

Richard (R.J.) Lyman

President

Kodiak Hill-Davis

Senior Vice President of Government Affairs

Brink Lindsey

Senior Vice President

Geoff Kabaservice

Vice President of Political Studies

Louisa Tavlas

Vice President of Communications

Theory

Brink Lindsey

Senior Vice President

David Dagan

Director of Editorial and Academic Affairs

Geoff Kabaservice

Vice President of Political Studies

Marshall Kosloff

Director of Special Projects

Climate

Liza Reed

Director of Climate Policy

Sarah Iskander

Government Affairs Manager, Climate and Energy

Rachel Levine

Senior Transmission Policy Analyst, Climate and Energy

Kenneth Sercy

Policy Manager, Energy Abundance

Jia-Shen Tsai

Policy Analyst, Climate and Energy

Criminal Justice

Greg Newburn

Director of Criminal Justice

Matthew Bulger

Deputy Director, Criminal Justice

Evan Burt

Policy Analyst, Criminal Justice

Richard Hahn

Senior Program Manager, Criminal Justice

Daniel Landsman

Government Affairs Manager, Criminal Justice

Jason Olin

Senior Government Affairs Manager, Criminal Justice

Helen Weston

Government Affairs Associate, Criminal Justice

Samantha Perez Davila

Program Fellow, Criminal Justice

Clarissa Iliff

Program Fellow, Criminal Justice

Immigration

Lindsey Warburton

Interim Director of Immigration

Cecilia Esterline

Senior Policy Analyst I, Immigration

Gil Guerra

Senior Policy Analyst I, Immigration and Security

Claire Holba

Senior Policy Analyst I, Immigration

Cassandra Zimmer-Wong

Senior Policy Analyst I, Immigration

Social Policy

Joshua McCabe

Director of Social Policy

Adam Nicholson

Deputy Director, Social Policy

Rohan Aras

Senior Policy Analyst, Transportation

Kaj Gumbs

Government Affairs Manager, Social Policy

David Jimenez

Government Affairs Manager, Social Policy

Andrew Justus

Policy Analyst, Housing

Lawson Mansell

Policy Analyst, Health

Leah Sargeant

Senior Policy Analyst, Social Policy

State Capacity

Ben Bain

Director of State Capacity

Alexander Mechanick

Senior Policy Analyst, State Capacity

Gabe Menchaca

Senior Program Manager, State Capacity

Matthew Meyers

Abundance Coordinator

Amanda Patarino

Government Affairs Manager, State Capacity

Communications

Louisa Tavlas

Vice President of Communications

Kristie Eshelman Dombroski

Digital Director

Jacob Mitchell

Digital Marketing Manager

Rich Pliskin

Staff Editor

Development

Mike Ressegue

Director of Development

Shari May

Associate Director, Development Strategy & Operations

Government Affairs

Kodiak Hill-Davis

Senior Vice President of Government Affairs

Corey Schrodt

Director of Government Affairs

Human Resources

Kristen Seals

Director of Human Resources and Operations

Monica Rodriguez

Human Resources Associate

Legal

Zachary Norris

Legal Director

Grace Olson

Legal Research Associate

Senior Fellows

Amanda Agan

Senior Fellow

Musa al-Gharbi

Senior Fellow

Robin Allen

Senior Fellow

Sarah Anzia

Senior Fellow

Alex Armlovich

Senior Fellow

Nicholas Bagley

Senior Fellow

Denise Bell

Senior Fellow

Elisabeth Blaug

Senior Fellow

David Broockman

Senior Fellow

Aaron Chalfin

Senior Fellow

Linda Chavez

Senior Fellow

Aurelian Craiutu

Senior Fellow

Ed Dolan

Senior Fellow

Marc Dunkelman

Senior Fellow

Colleen Eren

Senior Fellow

Michael Javen Fortner

Senior Fellow

Adam Garfinkle

Senior Fellow

Ted Gayer

Senior Fellow

Justin Gest

Senior Fellow

David Gray

Senior Fellow

Neil Gross

Senior Fellow

Matt Grossmann

Senior Fellow

Samuel Hammond

Senior Fellow

Angela Hawken

Senior Fellow

Jacob T. Levy

Senior Fellow
Damon Linker

Damon Linker

Senior Fellow

Zach Liscow

Senior Fellow

Lisa Miller

Senior Fellow

Nils Nichols

Senior Fellow

Jennifer Pahlka

Senior Fellow

Monica Prasad

Senior Fellow

Kerri Raissian

Senior Fellow

Robert Saldin

Senior Fellow

Idean Salehyan

Senior Fellow

David Schleicher

Senior Fellow

Richard Schmalensee

Senior Fellow

Gabriel Schoenfeld

Senior Fellow

Steven Teles

Senior Fellow

Kevin Vallier

Senior Fellow

Chris Vance

Senior Fellow

Tahmina Watson

Senior Fellow

Jonathan Wolfson

Senior Fellow

Matt Yglesias

Senior Fellow

Matt Zwolinski

Advisory Board

Anat Admati

Jennifer Burns

Stuart Butler

Tyler Cowen

J. Bradford DeLong

Mindy Finn

David Frum

William A. Galston

Eli Lehrer

Yuval Levin

Robert Litan

Joseph Majkut

Virginia Postrel

Reihan Salam

Richard Schmalensee

Mark S. Weiner

Benjamin Wittes

Justin Wolfers

Matt Zwolinski

Board of Directors

Robert Litterman

Chair pro tem

Daniel Drezner

Karen Dynan

Jeffrey Flier

Juleanna Glover

John Wolthuis

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