Leadership & Staff - The Century Foundation

Bradley Abelow

Chairman

Bradley Abelow is a consultant, currently working primarily on advising clients around the politics of climate change. He has worked in government and business.

Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, reporter, columnist and television analyst. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, a columnist for The Daily Beast and an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Alexander Morgan Capron

Emeritus Trustee

Alexander Morgan Capron holds the rank of University Professor at the University of Southern California where he occupies the Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics at the Gould School of Law, is a Professor of Medicine and Law at the Keck School of Medicine.

Jacob Hacker

Trustee

Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.

Melissa Harris Perry

Trustee

Melissa Harris-Perry is the Presidential Endowed Chair in Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University. There she is the Executive Director of the Pro Humanitate Institute and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South.

John B. King, Jr.

Trustee

John B. King, Jr. is the president of The Education Trust, a national nonprofit organization that seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps, from preschool through college. King served as the U.S. secretary of education from 2016 to 2017 as a member of President Barack Obama’s administration.

George Miller

Trustee

Congressman George Miller spent forty years in Congress representing California’s 7th and 11 districts (1975 to 2015). During his distinguished career in Congress he championed legislation to expand education opportunities, strengthen worker protections, promote a cleaner environment, and expand access to health care.

Alicia Munnell

Trustee

Alicia Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.

Richard Ravitch

Emeritus Trustee

Richard Ravitch is a politician and businessman who served as the seventy-fifth lieutenant governor of New York from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to the position in July 2009 by New York governor David Paterson.

Damon A. Silvers

Trustee

Damon A. Silvers is the Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO. He joined the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1997.

Harvey I. Sloane, M.D.

Emeritus Trustee

Harvey I. Sloane, M.D., is a public health physician with extensive grassroots and organizational experience.

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.

Lara Adekeye

Policy Associate

Lara Adekeye is a policy associate at The Century Foundation, focusing on issues of educational equity and school integration.

Anna Bernstein

Fellow

Anna Bernstein is a health care policy fellow at The Century Foundation, where she works on issues related to maternal and reproductive health.

Michelle Burris

Fellow

Michelle Burris is a fellow at The Century Foundation, focusing on racial and gender equity in workforce development.

Carolyn Fast

Senior Fellow

Carolyn Fast is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation where she works on higher education policy with a focus on institutional accountability and consumer protections.

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.

Peter Granville

Fellow

Peter Granville is a fellow at The Century Foundation, studying federal and state policy efforts to improve college access and affordability.

Steven Greenhouse

Senior Fellow

Steven Greenhouse is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where he writes about wages and working conditions, labor organizing, and other workplace issues.

Stephanie Hall

Senior Fellow

Stephanie Hall is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation where she works on higher education policy. She is an expert on international higher education and teacher education policy.

Julie Kashen

Director, Women's Economic Justice and Senior Fellow

Julie Kashen is a senior fellow and Director for Women's Economic Justice at The Century Foundation with expertise in working families, economic mobility, labor, and poverty.

Kimberly Knackstedt

Senior Fellow and Co-Director of TCF's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative

Kim Knackstedt is a senior fellow and co-director of The Century Foundation's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative, where her work focuses on economic justice for people with disabilities and their families.

Stefan Lallinger

Executive Director of Next100, Senior Fellow and Director of TCF’s Bridges Collaborative

Stefan Lallinger is the executive director of Next100, a think tank that is redefining how policy development is done by putting those closest to and most impacted by policy in the driver’s seat of change.

Jeff Madrick

Senior Fellow

Jeff Madrick is a senior 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.

Tiara Moultrie

Fellow

Tiara Moultrie is a fellow at The Century Foundation, focusing on higher education accountability.

Ann O’Leary

Fellow

Ann O'Leary is a fellow at The Century Foundation and focuses her work on advocating for paid family leave and broader issues of the Care Economy.

Halley Potter

Senior Fellow

Halley Potter is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where she researches public policy solutions for addressing educational inequality.

Ryan Prior

Fellow

Ryan Prior is a fellow at The Century Foundation, where he writes about Long COVID and chronic diseases as a journalist-in-residence with TCF’s Disability Economic Justice Team. His book, The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever, was released in November 2022 through Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster.

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 and a senior fellow with the Aspen Institute leading the K12 Climate Action initiative. Previously, she worked as a policy and research consultant focusing on issues of federal education policy and special education.

Robert Shireman

Director of Higher Education Excellence and Senior Fellow

Robert Shireman is director of higher education excellence and senior fellow at The Century Foundation working on education policy with a focus on affordability, quality assurance, and consumer protections.

Denise A. Smith

Senior Fellow

Denise A. Smith is a senior fellow, higher education at The Century Foundation.

Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan

Senior Policy Associate

Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation, where she works on issues related to maternal health and reproductive rights and justice.

Andrew Stettner

Director of Workforce Policy and Senior Fellow

Andrew Stettner is the director of workforce policy and senior fellow at The Century Foundation, focusing on modernizing workforce protections and social insurance programs.

Vilissa Thompson, LMSW

Fellow and Co-Director of TCF's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative

Vilissa Thompson is a fellow and co-director of The Century Foundation's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative, where her work focuses on the intersection of race, gender, and disability justice.

Rebecca Vallas

Senior Fellow and Co-Director of TCF's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative

Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow and co-director of The Century Foundation's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative, where she leads TCF’s work to achieve economic justice for people with disabilities and their families.

Laura Valle Gutierrez

Fellow

Laura Valle Gutierrez is a fellow at The Century Foundation, where she works on economic policy and research to promote economic, disability, racial, and gender justice.

Thomas Waldrop

Fellow

Thomas Waldrop is a health care policy fellow at The Century Foundation.

Danny Weiss

Senior Fellow and Director of The Government Affairs Program

Daniel (Danny) Weiss is a senior fellow and director of the government affairs program at The Century Foundation focused on improving public understanding of the U.S. Congress and advancing public policy in the areas of education, health care, and the economy.

Conor P. Williams

Senior Fellow

Conor P. Williams is a senior 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.