Anne-Marie Slaughter
Senior Advisor, Executive Office
Who We Are
Paul E. Butler
Interim CEO and President & Chief Transformation Officer, New America
Barry Howard
Chief Operating Officer
Peter Bergen
Vice President, Global Studies & Fellows, New America; Professor of Practice, Arizona State University; Author, All the Presidents’ Wars
Kevin Carey
Vice President, Education & Work
David Lanham
Vice President, Content & Communications
Tara Dawson McGuinness
Founder & Executive Director, New Practice Lab
Mark Schmitt
Senior Director, Political Reform Program
Soren Spicknall
Data Engineering Lead, New Practice Lab
Virginia Spinks
Data & Policy Analyst, Education Funding Equity
Zahava Stadler
Director, Education Funding Equity
Jewel Stafford
Senior Accountant, General Ledger
David Sterman
Deputy Director, Future Security, New America; Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Maresa Strano
Deputy Director, Political Reform Program
Ivy Sullivan
Manager, Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship
Meredith Sumpter
Director, Justice, Health, and Democracy Impact Initiative
Ashley Swearengin
President & CEO, Central Valley Community Foundation; Board Member, New America
Becky Sweger
Data Engineering Lead, New Practice Lab
Haley Swenson
Senior Writer and Researcher, Better Life Lab
Tiffany Thai
Policy Analyst, Center on Education & Labor
Melissa Tooley
Director, Educator Quality
EmmaLi Tsai
Digital Service for the Planet Fellow; Data Scientist, EPIC’s Technology Program
Stephanie Valencia
Co-Founder of Equis and Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Latino Media Network; Board Member, New America
Tyrone Warren
Financial Planning & Analyst Manager
JR Washebek
Digital Service for the Planet Fellow; Fellow for AI and Ecosystem Management, EPIC’s Technology Program
Gabe Watson
Digital Service for the Planet Fellow; Data Science and Applications Lead, EPIC’s Technology Program
Emily Wax
Fellow, Better Life Lab
Jessica Weeden
Director of Design, New Practice Lab
Wesley Whistle
Project Director, Higher Education
Taylor White
Director, Postsecondary Pathways for Youth
Emily Winchester
Events Manager
Sabiha Zainulbhai
Deputy Director, Future of Land and Housing Program
Allison Zhang
Development Manager