Experts - The Century Foundation

Sam Adler-Bell

Senior Policy Associate

Sam Adler-Bell is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 the executive director of Next100, a pop-up think tank for the next generation of policy leaders, powered by The Century Foundation.

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, and working people, and improving public understanding of the U.S. Congress.

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.