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Leadership & Staff
Leadership
- john a. powell, J.D., Executive Director
- Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D., Deputy Director
- Kathy Baird, Director of Communications
- Tom Rudd, Senior Researcher
- Jason Reece, AICP, Senior Researcher
- Tara McCoy, Fiscal & Human Resources Manager
Staff
- Charisma Acey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
- Michelle Alexander, J.D., Associate Professor of Law
- Mikyung Baek, Ph.D., Research & Technical Associate
- Jamaal Bell, Media Relations Manager
- Barbara Carter, Assistant to the Director/Office Manager
- Elsadig Elsheikh, Research Associate
- Samir Gambhir, Senior Research Associate (GIS)
- Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
- Lidija Knuth, Research Fellow
- Philip J. Kim, Assistant Editor
- Matthew Martin, GIS/Planning Specialist
- Stephen Menendian, J.D., Senior Legal Research Associate
- Jillian Olinger, Research Associate
- Rajeev Ravisankar, Research Assistant
- Rebecca Reno, Senior Research Associate
- Christy Rogers, Senior Research Associate
- Leslie Birdwell Shortlidge, Managing Editor
- Sarah Solarik, Administrative and Development Assistant
- Cheryl Staats, Research Assistant
- Angela Stanley, Research Associate
- Eric Stiens, Research Associate
- Wendy Smooth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Women’s Studies
- Angela Stuesse, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher
- S. P. Udayakumar, Research Fellow
- Caitlin Watt, Legal Research Associate
- Matthew Wolstoncroft, Web Communications Specialist
Graduate Research Associate
- Michele Battle-Fisher, Graduate Research Associate
- Mark Harris, Jr., Graduate Research Associate
- Keischa Irons, Graduate Research Associate
- Brandon Moss, Graduate Research Associate
- Charles Patton, Graduate Research Associate
- Abigail St. Peter, Graduate Research Associate
- Carlos Teel, Graduate Research Associate
- Jen Washco, Graduate Research Associate
