Experts - The Century Foundation

Denise A. Smith

Senior Fellow

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

Naira Antoun

Fellow

Naira Antoun, Director of TCF’s Transnational Trends in Citizenship Initiative.

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

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 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

Senior Fellow

Yan Cao is a senior 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.

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

Dr. Amanda E. Rogers

Fellow

Dr. Amanda E. Rogers is a fellow at the Century Foundation and a visiting assistant professor of Middle Eastern studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, with expertise in political violence and non-state armed groups, ranging from ISIS to Christian Identity neo-Nazis.

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

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.

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.

Sam Heller

Fellow

Sam Heller is a Beirut-based researcher, analyst and fellow at The Century Foundation. Sam’s work focuses on politics and security in Lebanon, Syria and their regional neighborhood. He has published extensively with International Crisis Group and The Century Foundation and for outlets including Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks and The Daily Beast.

Sajad Jiyad

Fellow

Sajad Jiyad is a fellow at The Century Foundation. An Iraqi political analyst based in Baghdad, he is the former managing director of the Al-Bayan Center, an Iraqi policy institute. He has also served as a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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.

Stefan Lallinger

Fellow and Director of TCF’s Bridges Collaborative

Stefan Lallinger is a fellow at the Century Foundation and the Director of TCF’s Bridges Collaborative. He focuses on issues of racial and socioeconomic integration, equity, school governance, and district-charter relationships.

Aron Lund

Fellow

Aron Lund is a Swedish writer on Middle Eastern affairs and a fellow at Century International 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.

Daphne McCurdy

Fellow

Daphne McCurdy is a fellow at the Century Foundation and a nonresident senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, she oversaw stabilization assistance to Syria for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Senior Fellow and 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.

Rebecca Vallas

Senior Fellow

Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where her work focuses on economic justice.

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 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.

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.