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.
Abir Benbuk
2019 Summer Scholar
Abir is a graduate student at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where she is working on a master’s degree in conflict resolution and coexistence.
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.
Tabatha Cortes
2019 Summer Scholar
Tabatha Cortes is a junior at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is pursuing a degree in individualized study with a concentration in public education and labor, a minor in global and urban education, and a certificate in labor studies.
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
Policy Associate
Taela is a policy associate with the Higher Education team who recently joined TCF this year. Taela graduated from Duke University in 2017, where she studied Linguistics, French, and Neuroscience. Before coming to TCF, Taela taught English in Dakar, Senegal through a Fulbright scholarship.
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
Director of Public Affairs and Senior Fellow
Denise Forte is director of public affairs and 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.
Peter Granville
Senior Policy Associate
Peter Granville is a senior policy associate at the Century Foundation, focusing on state policy to improve college access and affordability.
Anna Gu
2019 Summer Scholar
Anna Gu is a master’s of public affairs candidate at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.
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.
Christopher Ibeling
2019 Summer Scholar
Christopher is a first-year graduate student at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
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
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.
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.
Audrey McQuietor
2019 Summer Scholar
Audrey is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in sociology with a minor in legal studies and history.
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.
Andrew Nguyen
2019 Summer Scholar
Andrew Nguyen is a graduating senior from Haverford College, earning a degree in English and a minor in dance.
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.
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
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.
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.
Anthony Walsh
Policy Associate
Anthony Walsh is a policy associate at The Century Foundation, where he works on higher education policy with a focus on both the accountability and affordability projects.
Danny Weiss
Senior Fellow
Daniel Weiss is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation focused on issues related to improving the lives of America’s children and families, as well as the link between the environmental crisis and workforce challenges.
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.