WHO WE ARE
For over 30 years, Public Agenda has been providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, Public Agenda was founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1975. Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help:
- American leaders better understand the public's point of view.
- Citizens know more about critical policy issues so they can make thoughtful, informed decisions.
| Daniel Yankelovich | Chairman, Co-Founder |
| Lloyd Morrisett | Chairman, Executive Committee |
| David Coleman | Founder and CEO, The Grow Network |
| Philip Howard | Vice-Chairman of Covington & Burling and founder of Common Good |
| Alice S. Huang | Senior Faculty Associate, California Institute of Technology |
| Bobby R. Inman | Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired) |
| Ann Kirschner | University Dean, Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York |
| Alan I. Leshner | Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| David Mathews | President, Charles F. Kettering Foundation |
| Judith Davidson Moyers | President, Public Affairs Television, Inc. |
| Deborah Wadsworth | Senior Advisor, Public Agenda |
| Mitchel Wallerstein | Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University |
| Cyrus Vance | Former U.S. Secretary of State |
| Peter G. Peterson | Senior Chairman, The Blackstone Group, and Chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation |
| Sidney Harman | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harman International Industries, Inc. |
Staff
| Ruth A. Wooden | President |
| Scott Bittle | Director of Public Issues Analysis |
| Jean Johnson | Director of Education Insights and Director of Programs |
| Will Friedman, Ph.D. | Director of the Center for Advances in Public Engagement |
| Jonathan Rochkind | Vice President and Director of Research for Education Insights |
| Amber N. Ott | Research Manager |
| Jared Bosk | Research Associate |
| Paul Gasbarra | Research Associate for Education Insights |
| Samantha DuPont | Research Assistant |
| John Doble | Senior Research Fellow |
| Steve Farkas | Senior Research Fellow |
| John Immerwahr | Senior Research Fellow |
| Lara Birnback | Senior Public Engagement Project Director |
| Maria Martha Chavez | Senior Engagement Research Associate |
| Chris Haller | Public Engagement Associate and Online Engagement Manager |
| Alison Kadlec | Associate Director, Center for Advances in Public Engagement |
| McKenna Morrigan | Public Engagement Associate |
| Gwen Wright | Public Engagement Associate |
| Amanda Sperber | Public Engagement Intern |
| Francie Grace | Managing Editor |
| David White | Manager, Technology and Programming |
| Jenny Choi | Assistant Editor |
| Peiting Chen | Web Development Assistant |
| Meagan Murray | Web Site Intern |
| Allison Rizzolo | Web Site Intern |
| Shaheen Hasan | Communications Manager |
| Sanura Weathers | Graphics Designer |
| Maya Dusenbery | Communications Intern |
| Andrew Yarrow | Vice President, Director of the Washington, DC Office |
| Gail Gottlieb | Assistant to the Director of the Washington, D.C., office |
| Alex Trilling | Vice President and General Manager |
| Joan Austin | Administrative Assistant |
| Nora Benavidez | Development Associate |
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