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Domestic Policy

Jessica Arons

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

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

Robin Chait

Areas of expertise: high school reform, teacher quality, education of low-income and minority students

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

Karen Davenport

Areas of expertise: health insurance, health system reform, Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care

Lisa Donner

Areas of expertise: poverty

Elizabeth Edwards

Areas of expertise: Health Care, Poverty

Maria Echaveste

Areas of expertise: education, civil rights, immigration and bankruptcy reform

Lia Epperson

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

Judy Feder

Areas of expertise: Health insurance; Medicare; Medicaid; the uninsured; long-term 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

Mark Greenberg

Areas of expertise: poverty, child care and early education, employment, training and workforce development, welfare reform

David Halperin

Areas of expertise: campus organizing and politics, young advocacy and politics, national security policy, legal policy, technology

John Halpin

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

Peter Harbage

Areas of expertise: health care

Angela Kelley

Areas of expertise: immigration, media

Melissa Lazarín

Areas of expertise: K-12 education, high school reform, standards-based reform, Hispanic/Latino issues, English language learners, education and immigration

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

Joy Moses

Areas of expertise: poverty

Todd Park

Areas of expertise: health information technology, health reform

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

Derrick Richardson

Areas of expertise: State and federal government relations, legislative affairs, education, health care, energy, national guard

Ilia Rodriguez

Areas of expertise: congressional relations, legislative affairs, Hispanic/Latino issues

Fred Rotondaro

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

Reece Rushing

Areas of expertise: health, safety, and environmental protection; information policy; government reform

Bill Schulz

Areas of expertise: religion and public policy

Shirley Sagawa

Areas of expertise: volunteerism and 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

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: privacy, cybersecurity, law of cyberspace

Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite

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

Ellen-Marie Whelan

Areas of expertise: heath care, Medicare/Medicaid, women's health

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; Community Reinvestment Act

David Balto

Areas of expertise: competition policy, intellectual property law, and health care

Heather Boushey

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

Louis Caldera

Areas of expertise: education, higher education, national security, Hispanic/ Latino issues

Aaron Chatterji

Areas of expertise: innovation policy, entrepreneurship and small business issues, and corporate social responsibility

Sabina Dewan

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

Michael Ettlinger

Areas of expertise:Taxes, Economics, Employment, Cities/Metropolitan Policy, Budget / Fiscal Policy, Social Security, State Economic Development

Andrew Jakabovics

Areas of expertise: housing policy, community and economic development, urban planning, and Jewish law and public policy

Karen Kornbluh

Areas of expertise: energy and environment

Scott Lilly

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

David Madland

Areas of expertise: economic policy, retirement, labor unions, employment and 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

David Min

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

Ann O'Leary

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

Jonathan Orszag

Areas of expertise: Banking/Finance, Economics, Labor, Technology/Science

Ed Paisley

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

Richard Samans

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

Louis Soares

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

Laura Tyson

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

Karla Walter

Areas of expertise: employment, labor

Sarah Rosen Wartell

Areas of expertise: technology policy, consumer finance and consumer protection, and housing and community development

Christian E. Weller

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

Energy Policy

Jake Caldwell

Areas of expertise: international trade (WTO and free trade agreements), agriculture (Farm Bill), energy, biofuels

Kate Gordon

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

Benjamin Goldstein

Areas of expertise: climate change, energy policy, green jobs, cap and trade, electric vehicles, building weatherization and efficiency retrofits, transmission and smart grid

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

Alice Madden

Areas of expertise: economy, affordable health care, energy, climate change, and protecting civil liberties

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

Julian L. Wong

Areas of expertise: China, Asia, climate change, energy, environment

National Security Policy

Mark David Agrast

Areas of expertise: the Constitution, separation of powers, and rule of law; terrorism and civil liberties; judicial independence; international human rights; civil rights - sexual orientation and the law; history of American progressive thought

Moran Banai

Areas of expertise: Middle East

Spencer Boyer

Areas of expertise: public international law, United Nations and international organization affairs, transatlantic relations and European affairs, international courts and tribunals, U.S. war powers

Reuben Brigety

Areas of expertise: role of development assistance in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. national security, human rights, and humanitarian affairs.

Samuel Charap

Areas of expertise: Russian and Ukrainian domestic politics and foreign policy, U.S. policy in the post-Soviet region, U.S. economic relations with the former Soviet states

Rudy deLeon

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

Andrew Grotto

Areas of expertise: Iran, North Korea, nuclear and biological weapons proliferation, U.S. national security strategy, U.S. nuclear weapons strategy, European national security policies, international law

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

John Norris

Areas of expertise: Africa, Asia, foreign policy, international relations, human rights, national security, peacekeeping / reconstruction, united nations

John Prendergast

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

Dan Restrepo

Areas of expertise: Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, Hispanic/Latino issues, U.S. electoral policy

Bill Schulz

Areas of expertise: human rights

Colin Thomas-Jensen

Areas of expertise: Africa, foreign policy, human rights, national security and international relations

Caroline Wadhams

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

Matthew Yglesias

Areas of expertise: national security, foreign policy/international relations, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East