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The Bureau includes former administration officials, policy experts, economists, and leaders in academia available to speak to a wide range of issues and add underrepresented voices and new perspectives to economic coverage.

Nabil Ahmed Senior Director, Economic Justice at Oxfam America
Gbenga Ajilore Chief Economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Skanda Amarnath Executive Director, Employ America
Alvaro Bedoya Former Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Sharon Block Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School
Heather Boushey Professor of Practice, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania + Senior Research Fellow at the Reimaginging the Economy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School
Alejandra Y. Castillo Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development
Brendan Duke Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy, CBPP
Indivar Dutta-Gupta Advisor, Community Change
Kathryn Anne Edwards Economist
Lisette Orellana Engel Director of Economic Policy, UnidosUS
Leandra English Senior Advisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michele Evermore Senior Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance
Sameera Fazili Former Deputy Director, National Economic Council
Jessica Fulton Senior Fellow, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Kate Gordon CEO, California Forward
Jennifer Harris Former Senior Director, National Security Council and National Economic Council
Angela Hanks Director of Policy Programs, The Century Foundation
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Daniel Hornung Former Deputy Director, National Economic Council
Aya Ibrahim Former Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State
Alex Jacquez Chief of Policy & Advocacy, Groundwork Collaborative
Bobby Kogan Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy, Center for American Progress
Michael Linden Senior Policy Fellow, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Doha Mekki Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division
Michael Negron Former Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
Elizabeth Pancotti Managing Director of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative
Shilpa Phadke Former Deputy Director, White House Gender Policy Council
K. Sabeel Rahman Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, and Co-Founder, Law and Political Economy Project
Bharat Ramamurti Former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council
Kitty Richards Senior Strategic Advisor, Groundwork Collaborative
Alfredo Romero Former Senior Economist, Joint Economic Committee
Gus Rossi Senior Director, Programs & Policy, Omidyar Network
Lorelei Salas Former Director of Supervision, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Julie Siegel Former Deputy Federal Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Treasury
Ganesh Sitaraman Professor of Law and Director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Vanderbilt Law School
Graham Steele Former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Anisha Steephen Former Senior Policy Advisor for Racial Equity, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Shayna Strom President and CEO, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Ambassador Katherine Tai Former United States Trade Representative
Elizabeth Wilkins President and CEO, The Roosevelt Institute
Tim Wu Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Vanessa Williamson Senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings