Governance and Public Policy


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Added 01/04/22 | Location: India | Subjects: ,

Anirudh Shingal is an associate professor in economics at the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai, India. He’s spent more than a decade in academia and research, and nearly two decades conducting data and policy analysis of international trade and development issues.

Added 01/04/22 | Location: Michigan | Subjects: ,

Javed Ali is an associate professor at the University of Michigan. His 20-plus years of experience in national security and intelligence issues include positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. Ali can speak to issues relating to international and domestic terrorism.

Added 11/10/21 | Location: California | Subjects: ,

Brenda Muñoz is the deputy chair of the University of California, Berkeley’s Labor Center.

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Added 09/30/21 | Location: California | Subjects: , ,

Randall Akee is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies at UCLA.

Added 03/16/21 | Location: California | Subjects: , ,

Tim Jin is a disability rights advocate with cerebral palsy. He advocates for improving the accessibility of technology-aided communication for those with speech-related disabilities.

Added 08/03/20 | Location: Nevada | Subjects: , ,

Jayce Farmer is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Updated 04/12/21 | Location: California | Subjects: ,

Tracey Ross is director of federal policy and narrative change at PolicyLink. She also serves as a delegate to the U.S.-Japan Leadership program, which fosters connections between leaders in both countries.

Updated 04/15/21 | Location: California | Subjects: ,

Ninez A. Ponce is a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Updated 04/16/21 | Location: New York | Subjects:

Chye-Ching Huang is the executive director of the Tax Law Center at NYU Law.

Added 10/18/17 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Christopher Smith is the senior vice president of government and public affairs at Cheniere Energy.

Updated 04/23/21 | Location: Connecticut | Subjects: ,

Khalilah Brown-Dean is an associate professor of political science and senior director for Inclusive Excellence at Quinnipiac University.

Updated 04/19/21 | Location: Massachusetts | Subjects: ,

Ashley Nunes is a researcher, consultant and commentator specializing in transportation safety, regulatory policy and workforce productivity.

Updated 04/13/21 | Location: South Carolina | Subjects: , ,

Adolphus Belk Jr. is a professor of political science and African American studies at Winthrop University in South Carolina.

Updated 04/12/21 | Location: California | Subjects: , ,

Lanhee J. Chen is the director of domestic policy studies and lecturer in the public policy program at Stanford University. His research interests include health care policy, the design of public institutions and advanced policy analysis.

Updated 04/20/21 | Location: Virginia | Subjects: ,

Anna Maria Chávez is the executive director and CEO of the National School Boards Association (NSBA). She is an expert on women’s leadership, youth development, and public policy.

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Updated 10/01/21 | Location: California | Subjects: ,

Tina Trujillo is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. She is an expert on education inequality, federal educational policymaking and test-based educational reforms.

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Updated 10/01/21 | Location: California | Subjects: , , ,

Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti is dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at California Lutheran University.

Updated 04/10/21 | Location: Florida | Subjects: , ,

Dr. Julio Frenk is the president of the University of Miami. He was previously the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Minister of Health of Mexico.

Updated 01/18/21 | Location: Washington | Subjects: , ,

Vince Wang is a research manager at Grounded Solutions, a housing nonprofit. His research focuses on evaluating affordable housing policies and programs, the geography of inequality, and residential mobility.

Updated 04/13/21 | Location: New York | Subjects: , ,

Zhan Guo is an associate professor of urban planning and transportation policy at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Updated 04/22/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Adriana Kugler is a professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Her research interests include labor markets and policy evaluation in developed and developing countries. She studies labor regulations, unemployment and immigration, and has authored articles on public health insurance and the effects of TRAP (Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers) laws on women’s employment prospects.

Updated 02/08/21 | Location: Massachusetts | Subjects: ,

Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity Insights.

Updated 04/21/21 | Location: Massachusetts | Subjects: , ,

George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Updated 04/16/21 | Location: Georgia | Subjects: , ,

Dorothy Brown is a nationally recognized scholar in tax policy, race and class and has published extensively on the racial implications of federal tax policy. Her new book, The Whiteness of Wealth (2021), covers racism in the U.S. tax code.

Updated 04/23/21 | Location: New Jersey | Subjects: ,

William M. Rodgers III is a professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

Updated 04/11/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Edwin Park is a research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy.

Updated 04/22/21 | Location: Tennessee | Subjects: ,

Dr. Wayne Riley is 17th president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Updated 04/04/21 | Location: Georgia | Subjects: ,

Michael Leo Owens is an associate professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta, researching urban politics, state and local politics, the politics of criminal punishment, governance and public