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Domestic Policy

Julie Ajinkya

Areas of expertise: Race and ethnic politics, women's rights, immigration, Muslim communities in the West

Jessica Arons

Areas of expertise: Reproductive health and rights, contraception, sexuality education, privacy rights, HPV vaccines, HIV/AIDS, gay rights, constitutional law

Jeremy Ayers

Areas of expertise: Federal education policy, high school reform, teacher quality, and adolescent literacy

Kellan Baker

Areas of expertise: LGBT issues, health care

Peter Basch

Areas of expertise: Health care

Joel Berg

Areas of expertise: Poverty, food policy

Ulrich Boser

Areas of expertise: Education, Higher Education, Crime, Criminal Justice, Investigative Research and Reporting

Melissa Boteach

Areas of expertise: Poverty

Cindy Brown

Areas of expertise: Education of low-income and minority students, standards-based education framework, federal education programs, state education agency operations, state education policy, federal civil rights enforcement in education, pre-school education

Donna Cooper

Areas of expertise: Infrastructure, State policy, performance management, procurement reform, poverty, education, workforce/laborforce development

David Cutler

Areas of expertise: Economics, health care

Senator Tom Daschle

Areas of expertise: Banking policy, consumer finance, higher eduction policy, housing policy, civil rights, urban policy, economic mobility and security, wealth and income inequality, health care

Maria Echaveste

Areas of expertise: Education, civil rights, immigration, bankruptcy reform

Lia Epperson

Areas of expertise: Civil Rights, constitutional law, education, judiciary, law, race

Zeke Emanuel

Areas of expertise: Health care

Henry Fernandez

Areas of expertise: State and municipal policy

Marshall Fitz

Areas of expertise: Immigration policy, politics, and legislation; immigrant rights, due process, and judicial review

Sam Fulwood III

Areas of expertise: Race relations, politics, media, immigration, urban affairs, housing policy, education, energy, domestic social issues

John Halpin

Areas of expertise: Progressive thought and history, campaigns and elections, public opinion

Michele Jolin

Areas of expertise: Social entrepreneurship

Angela Kelley

Areas of expertise: Immigration policy, media and public opinion research, politics and legislation, Department of Homeland Security

Jitinder Kohli

Areas of expertise: Business and industry, cities, housing, economy, Europe, government, immigration, race and civil rights

Jeff Krehely

Areas of expertise: LGBT Issues

Scott Lilly

Areas of expertise: Afghanistan, campaigns, China, economics, education, employment, foreign policy, intelligence, labor, national security, politics, poverty, terrorism

Raegen Miller

Areas of expertise: Teacher education and licensure, teacher labor markets and unions, teacher quality and value-added measurement, mathematics education, quantitative data analysis

Jonathan Moreno

Areas of expertise: Bioethics, medical ethics, stem cell research, end of life ethics, science policy, neuroethics, bioterrorism

Glenda Partee

Areas of expertise: Teacher quality, youth policy, high school reform, career and college readiness

John Podesta

Areas of expertise: Federal budget and tax policy, government information, privacy, Patriot Act, civil liberties, security and terrorism, national intelligence issues, regulatory reform, telecommunications security and regulatory policy, environmental issues, technology, federal powers, the judiciary

Bishop Gene Robinson

Areas of expertise: LGBT issues, religion

Fred Rotondaro

Areas of expertise: Poverty, religion, race and civil rights

Araceli Ruano

Areas of expertise: California, education, Latin America, environment and energy

Shirley Sagawa

Areas of expertise: Volunteerism, national service

Shira Saperstein

Areas of expertise: Women's health and rights

Winnie Stachelberg

Areas of expertise: Congressional relations, federal budget process, gay and lesbian issues, civil rights, HIV/AIDS, nonprofit management

Topher Spiro

Areas of expertise: Health care/p>

Sally Steenland

Areas of expertise: Religion in the public sphere, religion and LGBT equality, women and religion, religion and science

Peter Swire

Areas of expertise: Housing, financial regulation, privacy, cyberspace law

Neera Tanden

Areas of expertise: Health care and domestic policy

Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite

Areas of expertise: Religion and public policy, peace and international security, interfaith relations, gender and gender preference issues, bioethics

Philip E. Wolgin

Areas of expertise: Immigration

Economic Policy

David M. Abromowitz

Areas of expertise: Housing policy, financing and preservation, community and economic development, urban redevelopment, disconnected youth and prison re-entry, the Community Reinvestment Act

Heather Boushey

Areas of expertise: Budget and fiscal policy, demographics and census, economics, employment, labor, poverty, welfare, women and work

Alon Cohen

Areas of expertise: Housing

Donna Cooper

Areas of expertise: Infrastructure, State policy, performance management, procurement reform, poverty, education, workforce/laborforce development

David Cutler

Areas of expertise: Economics, health care

Gadi Dechter

Areas of expertise: Government performance and operations, and government efficiency

Sabina Dewan

Areas of expertise: Development aid, economics, foreign policy/international relations, global poverty/foreign assistance, globalization, trade, United Nations, World Trade Organization

Jennifer Erickson

Areas of expertise: Business and industry, economics

Michael Ettlinger

Areas of expertise: Taxes, economics, employment, cities and metropolitan policy, budget and fiscal policy, social security, state economic development

Sarah Jane Glynn

Areas of expertise: Economics, employment, labor, women and work, workforce development, college and career readiness, business and industry

Seth Hanlon

Areas of expertise: Budget and fiscal policy; taxes

Adam Hersh

Areas of expertise: macroeconomics, China and other Asian economies, international economics, banking and finance, global poverty, globalization, IMF and World Bank, stock markets, trade

Jitinder Kohli

Areas of expertise: Business and industry, cities, housing, economy, Europe, government, immigration, race and civil rights

Scott Lilly

Areas of expertise: Afghanistan, campaigns, China, economics, education, employment, foreign policy, intelligence, labor, national security, politics, poverty, terrorism

Michael Linden

Areas of expertise: Federal tax policy, the federal budget

David Madland

Areas of expertise: Economic policy, retirement, labor unions, employment, public opinion

Matt Miller

Areas of expertise: Economic policy, budget and tax policy, health care policy, education policy, globalization, role of business in society, role of media

Ian Millhiser

Areas of expertise: Government efficiency and transparency, constitutional law, the judiciary

David Min

Areas of expertise: Financial markets policy, economic policy, housing policy, consumer credit

Julie Morgan

Areas of expertise: Postsecondary education, economic mobility, and workforce development

Joy Moses

Areas of expertise: Poverty

Ann O'Leary

Areas of expertise: Employment, poverty, welfare, women's rights and health

Jonathan Orszag

Areas of expertise: Banking and finance, economics, labor, technology and science

Ed Paisley

Areas of expertise: Domestic and international financial markets, technology business and finance, and Asian affairs

Janneke Ratcliffe

Areas of expertise: Housing policy, financing and preservation, banking and finance

Richard Samans

Areas of expertise: International trade, monetary policy, tax, economics, development aid, global poverty and foreign assistance, globalization, IMF and World Bank, World Trade Organization

Louis Soares

Areas of expertise: Economic mobility, state strategy and incentives for economic development, adult literacy, workforce development

Stephen Steigleder

Areas of expertise: Workforce development

Will Straw

Areas of expertise: Globalization, trade, and economics

Peter Swire

Areas of expertise: Housing, financial regulation, privacy, cyberspace law

Laura Tyson

Areas of expertise: Business and industry, economics, globalization, stock markets, technology and science, trade

Karla Walter

Areas of expertise: Employment, labor

Christian E. Weller

Areas of expertise: Private pensions, social security, U.S. economy and the labor market, the Federal Reserve, international finance, consumer credit and finance

Energy Policy

Richard W. Caperton

Areas of expertise: Clean energy, energy finance, rural electric cooperatives, electricity transmission and distribution, climate change

Michael Conathan

Areas of expertise: Oceans policy

Kate Gordon

Areas of expertise: Green jobs, clean and renewable energy, regional economic development, urban planning, workforce development, green manufacturing

Melanie Hart

Areas of expertise: China and Chinese energy and climate policy

Bracken Hendricks

Areas of expertise: Clean and renewable energy; gas, oil, and automobiles; climate change; jobs and economic development; civic engagement and progressive infrastructure; urban planning; Katrina reconstruction; green building

Tom Kenworthy

Areas of expertise: Energy and environment

Andrew Light

Areas of expertise: Environmental policy and ethics, ethics of new and emerging technologies, science policy and regulatory frameworks, restoration ecology, climate change, agricultural biotechnology, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology

Joseph Romm

Areas of expertise: Climate change

Daniel J. Weiss

Areas of expertise: Congress; clean and renewable energy; gas, oil, and automobiles; global warming; clean air; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

National Security Policy

Rudy deLeon

Areas of expertise: U.S. military strategy, defense budget, national security, Middle East, and legislative/executive process and politics

Ken Gude

Areas of expertise: Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo, national security

Nina Hachigian

Areas of expertise: National security, U.S. foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, Asia geopolitics

Brian Katulis

Areas of expertise: Iraq, national security, terrorism, Middle East politics

Lawrence J. Korb

Areas of expertise: U.S. military, U.S. foreign policy and national security, defense budget, weapons systems, nonproliferation, military history

Scott Lilly

Areas of expertise: Afghanistan, campaigns, China, economics, education, employment, foreign policy, intelligence, labor, national security, politics, poverty, terrorism

Sarah Margon

Areas of expertise: Africa, foreign policy, international relations, human rights, humanitarian response, conflict prevention, postconflict reconstruction

John Norris

Areas of expertise: Africa, Asia, foreign policy, international relations, human rights, national security, peacekeeping and reconstruction, United Nations

John Prendergast

Areas of expertise: Africa, conflict resolution, ICC, counter-terrorism in Africa

Caroline Wadhams

Areas of expertise: Military manpower, terrorism, national security, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Michael Werz

Areas of expertise: Transatlantic foreign policy including Turkey, climate migration and national security, immigration and integration in Europe, anti-Americanism

Media and Communications

Julie Ajinkya

Areas of expertise: Race and ethnic politics, women's rights, immigration, Muslim communities in the West

Eric Alterman

Areas of expertise: Media business, journalism, U.S. foreign relations, U.S. history, politics, American Jewish politics

Vanessa Cárdenas

Areas of expertise: Ethnic media, immigration, Hispanic/Latino issues

Daniella Gibbs Leger

Areas of expertise: Race, media, politics

Tara McGuinness (CAP Action)

Areas of expertise: Elections, democracy programs, media, conservative politics, organizing

Alan Rosenblatt

Areas of expertise: campaigns and elections, media, politics, White House / presidency, social media, online advocacy strategy, new media

Anna Deveare Smith

Areas of expertise: The arts

Winnie Stachelberg

Areas of expertise: Congressional relations, federal budget process, gay and lesbian issues, civil rights, HIV/AIDS, nonprofit management

Ruy Teixeira

Areas of expertise: Public opinion, elections, voting behavior, demographic trends, political geography, voter turnout, political parties