Braintrusters
The New Deal 2.0 Braintrusters are a select group of the country’s leading thinkers, including economists, historians, political scientists, and policy experts who support the effort to explore key questions at the heart of the economic debate.
The views expressed by these individuals here are theirs alone and should not be attributed to the Roosevelt Institute, its boards, or its officers.
Andrew RichDr. Andrew Rich became the President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute on January 1, 2009. Prior to that, Rich was Deputy Director and Director of Programs at the Colin Powell Center...
Ann O'LearyAnn is the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Health, Economic & Family Security (CHEFS) at University of California-Berkeley School of Law. The CHEFS mission is to develop...
Anna BurgerAnna Burger is the chair of Change to Win, America’s newest labor federation, and a top-ranking officer at the Service Employees International Union, where she oversees national political...
Arjun JayadevArjun Jayadev is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a visiting research fellow at the Columbia University Committee on Global Thought....
Barbara ArnwineBarbara R. Arnwine, the executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law since 1989, is internationally renowned for contributions on critical justice issues,...
Bill BlackBill Black is an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). He was the executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from...
Bo CutterBowman Cutter has been a managing director of Warburg Pincus, a major global private equity firm headquartered in New York City, since 1996. He has served as the firm’s economist...
Bruce JudsonBruce Judson is a senior faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management and the author of "It Could Happen Here: America on the...
Christopher HayesChristopher Hayes is the Washington, D.C. editor of The Nation and a fellow at the New America Foundation. Since 2002, he's written on issues including union organizing and economic...
Daniel BergerDaniel Berger graduated with honors from Princeton University and Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone academic scholar. He is presently a senior member and shareholder...
David WoolnerDavid Woolner is senior vice president of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park New York, and associate professor of history at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, New...
Deepak BhargavaDeepak Bhargava is executive director of the Center for Community Change, a national nonprofit organization that develops the capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people...
Eric LiuEric Liu is an author and civic entrepreneur based in Seattle. He served as a White House speechwriter in President Bill Clinton's first term and as the president's domestic policy adviser...
Stanley GreenbergStanley B. Greenberg is CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. Greenberg has served as pollster to several world leaders and collaborates with a Republican polling firm on bi-partisan surveys...
Heather GerkenHeather Gerken is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School and an expert in election law and constitutional law. She has published numerous articles on those topics in...
Hendrik HertzbergHendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor at The New Yorker, where he blogs and contributes to the opening “Comment” column in “The Talk of the Town.” He has been an officer in the...
Henry LiuHenry C.K. Liu is an independent commentator on culture, economics and politics. Born in Hong Kong and educated at Harvard University in architecture and urban design, Liu developed...
Jim CarrJim Carr is chief operating officer for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), a national association of 600 local development organizations dedicated to improving the...
James K. GalbraithJames K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin, and a...
Jeff MadrickJeff Madrick is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is currently editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting...
Joe ConasonJoe Conason is a national correspondent for The New York Observer, where he writes a weekly column distributed by Creators Syndicate. He is also a weekly columnist for Salon.com and...
Joe CostelloJoe Costello has been involved in communications, energy and political economy for three decades. He was communications director for Jerry Brown's innovative 1992 presidential campaign...
john a. powellProfessor john a. powell is an internationally recognized authority on civil rights and civil liberties, race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty and democracy. He is executive...
Jonathan AlterJonathan Alter is an award-winning columnist, television analyst and author. Since 1991, Alter has been a Newsweek columnist and originator of the magazine's "Conventional Wisdom Watch,"...
Joseph StiglitzJoseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University in New York and chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and executive...
Randall WrayL. Randall Wray is a professor of economics and research director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. His current research...
William LeuchtenbergWilliam Leuchtenburg, scholar of the presidency and history professor emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill, is the nation’s leading authority on Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The author of more...
Goodwin LiuGoodwin Liu is associate dean and professor of law at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law. His areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, civil...
Marcia DysonThe Reverend Marcia L. Dyson is a native of Chicago, where she attended high school, the University of Illinois and Chicago State University. She served as the first chief of staff for...
Mario SeccarecciaMario Seccareccia holds a PhD in economics from McGill University and has been teaching at the University of Ottawa since 1978. He has authored, co-authored or co-edited nine books or...
Mark SchmittMark Schmitt is executive editor of The American Prospect. Schmitt has been a contributor to the Prospect since 2001 and a columnist for the magazine since 2005, as well as a frequent...
Marshall AuerbackMarshall Auerback has 27 years of experience in the investment management business, serving as a global portfolio strategist for RAB Capital Plc, a UK-based fund management group with...
Matt MillerMatt Miller is the author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of the Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity, published by Times Books. Miller is a senior fellow at the...
Maya RockeymooreDr. Maya Rockeymoore is president and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a Washington, D.C. consulting firm that partners with clients to develop strategic solutions that achieve maximum...
Jal MehtaJal Mehta is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Jal received his Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Harvard and has written on a variety of public...
Meizhu LuiFor over 30 years, Meizhu Lui has dedicated herself to economic justice as an educator, organizer, and scholar. Currently, she is the Director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,...
Michael WaldmanMichael Waldman is executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law, a law and policy institute focusing on democracy and justice. Mr. Waldman...
Sarah PhillipsSarah Phillips, assistant professor of history at Boston University, is the author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. Her research focuses on...
Rev. Jim WallisThe Rev. Jim Wallis is the founder and president of Sojourners, the largest network of progressive Christians in the United States focused on the biblical call to social justice. Wallis...
Robert DallekRobert Dallek is an award-winning historian who specializes in the American presidency and foreign affairs. His most recent works include Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President...
Robert JohnsonRob Johnson is the Director of Financial Reform at the Roosevelt Institute and is a regular contributor to NewDeal 2.0, which runs his "FinanceSeer" column. He serves on the United...
Robert KuttnerRobert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine and a Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow. He also writes columns in The Boston Globe. Bob is the author...
Samuel IssacharoffSamuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. His research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation...
Sarah HicksSarah Hicks (Alutiiq) is an enrolled member of the Native Village of Ouzinkie and the founding director of the Policy Research Center of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)....
Sean WilentzSean Wilentz is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era and Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His books include...





