Experts
Anna Bernstein
Fellow and Deputy Director of Health Equity and Reform
Anna Bernstein is a health care policy fellow and deputy director of health equity and reform 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.
Michele Evermore
Senior Fellow
Michele Evermore is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where she focuses on policy for improving the nation’ social insurance programs.
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.
Kings Floyd
Research and Policy Associate
Kings Floyd is a research and policy associate for the Disability Economic Justice team at The Century Foundation. She is a disability rights activist, access coordinator and writer based in Washington, D.C. and Portland, Maine.
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.
Laura Haltzel
Senior Fellow
Laura Haltzel is a senior fellow with The Century Foundation, where she focuses on ensuring retirement income security for all Americans.
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 Director of the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative
Kim Knackstedt is a senior fellow and 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.
Dr. Maggie Marcus
Fellow
Dr. Margaret S. Marcus is a fellow at The Century Foundation, working on improving prospects for English learners. She is also the executive director of the Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation, a private family foundation dedicated to improving educational outcomes for English learners, as well as responsive grant-making both domestically and abroad.
Emily McGrath
Senior Fellow and Director of Workforce Policy
Emily McGrath is a senior fellow and director of workforce policy at The Century Foundation. Emily is a workforce strategist with deep experience in coalition-building, innovative educational initiatives, and program scaling.
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.
Tara Oakman
Senior Fellow and Director of Health Equity and Reform
Tara Oakman is a senior fellow and director of health equity and reform at The Century Foundation, where her work focuses on helping shape a more equitable, accessible American health care system.
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.
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.
Vilissa Thompson, LMSW
Fellow
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 Senior Advisor to the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative
Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where her work focuses on achieving economic justice.
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.
Amber Villalobos
Fellow
Amber Villalobos is a fellow at The Century Foundation working on higher education policy, with a focus on for-profit education, online education, and institutional accountability.
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.
Lea Woods
Policy Associate
Lea Woods is a policy associate in the women's economic justice department at The Century Foundation where her work focuses on a range of issues, including paid family leave and child care.
Jonathan Zabala
Senior Policy Associate
Jonathan Zabala is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation, where he works on issues related to educational equity, English language learners, and dual language immersion programs.
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.
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Rohan Advani
Fellow, Podcast Producer
Rohan Advani is a fellow at Century International and the executive producer of the Order From Ashes podcast. He is a PhD candidate in sociology at UCLA.
Naira Antoun
Fellow
Naira Antoun is a fellow at Century International and director of the Transnational Trends in Citizenship initiative. She is also a contributing editor at Mada Masr, where she has worked since its establishment in 2013.
Abdelrahman Ayyash
Fellow
Abdelrahman Ayyash is a fellow at Century International and director of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood working group. Ayyash is an award-winning journalist and a researcher specialized in Islamic movements
Thanassis Cambanis
Senior Fellow and Director of Century International
Thanassis Cambanis is an author, journalist, and director of Century International. His work focuses on U.S. foreign policy, Arab politics, and social movements in the Middle East.
Zachary Cuyler
Senior Policy Associate and Fellow
Zachary Cuyler is a senior policy associate and fellow at Century International.
Sam Heller
Fellow
Sam Heller is a Beirut-based researcher, analyst, and fellow at Century International. 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 Century International and director of the Shia Politics Working Group. An Iraqi political analyst based in Baghdad, he is the managing director of Bridge, an Iraqi nongovernmental organization and consultancy focused on development projects for young people.
Eamon Kircher-Allen
Editor-in-Chief of Century International
Eamon Kircher-Allen is editor-in-chief at Century International. He has worked as a journalist in the United States and East Africa, and for more than a decade as a writer, editor, and researcher focusing on economics, the environment, and the Middle East and Africa.
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.
Amanda Rogers
Fellow
Amanda 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.
Dahlia Scheindlin
Fellow
Dahlia Scheindlin is a fellow at Century International, based in Tel Aviv. She is a public opinion expert and an international political and strategic consultant, as well as a scholar and a writer.
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.
Zeinab Shuker
Fellow
Zeinab Shuker is a fellow at Century International and an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University in Texas.