Experts
Sam Adler-Bell
Senior Policy Associate
Sam Adler-Bell is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation.
Rohan Advani
Senior Policy Associate
Rohan Advani is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation. His research interests include the political economy of infrastructure, corruption, and trade in the Middle East, focusing on the influence of Gulf-based capital in the Levant.
Daniel Benaim
Fellow
Daniel Benaim is a fellow at The Century Foundation. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and part-time faculty in the Program in International Relations at New York University (NYU).
Michelle Burris
Senior Policy Associate
Michelle Burris is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation, focusing on racial and socioeconomic integration in pre-K–12 settings.
Thanassis Cambanis
Senior Fellow
Thanassis Cambanis is an author, journalist, and senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is co-director of TCF’s foreign policy program. His work focuses on U.S. foreign policy, Arab politics, and social movements in the Middle East.
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.
Taela Dudley
Senior Policy Associate
Taela is a senior policy associate with the Higher Education team, working to curb systemic inequality through ensuring high quality education for all students
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.
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
Senior Policy Associate
Peter Granville is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation, studying state policy efforts to improve college access and affordability.
Stephanie Hall
Fellow
Stephanie Hall is a fellow at The Century Foundation where she works on higher education policy with a focus on accountability and quality. She is an expert on international higher education policy, teacher policy, and trends in the privatization of public education.
Michael Wahid Hanna
Senior Fellow
Michael Wahid Hanna is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Hanna works on issues of international security, international law, and U.S. foreign policy in the 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
Director of K–12 Equity and Senior Fellow
Richard D. Kahlenberg is director of K–12 equity and senior fellow at The Century Foundation with expertise in education, civil rights, and equal opportunity.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Kevin Miller
Fellow
Kevin Miller is a fellow at The Century Foundation, where he conducts quantitative research on college affordability and accountability. His research has focused on the experiences of and outcomes for women and nontraditional students in higher education.
Jen Mishory
Senior Fellow
Jen Mishory is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, working on issues related to workforce, higher education, and health care, 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
Senior Policy Associate
Amanda Novello is a senior 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.
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.
Dahlia Scheindlin
Fellow
Dahlia Scheindlin is a fellow at The Century Foundation. She is a political analyst and a public opinion expert, with a doctorate in political science from Tel Aviv University. She has worked on five national campaigns in Israel and in fifteen other countries. She writes regularly at +972 Magazine and is co-host of the Tel Aviv Review Podcast.
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
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.
Andrew Stettner
Senior Fellow
Andrew Stettner is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, focusing on modernizing workforce protections and social insurance programs.
Jamila Taylor
Director of Health Care Reform and Senior Fellow
Jamila Taylor is director of health care reform and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where she leads TCF’s work to achieve universal, affordable health care coverage and advance women’s health, reproductive rights, and racial and gender justice.
Emma Vadehra
Executive Director, Next100
Emma Vadehra is a senior fellow at TCF and the executive director of Next100, a pop-up think tank for the next generation of policy leaders, powered by The Century Foundation.
Anthony Walsh
Senior Policy Associate
Anthony Walsh is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation, where he works on higher education policy with a focus on both college affordability and accountability.
Danny Weiss
Senior Fellow
Daniel (Danny) Weiss is a senior fellow 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 environment.
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.