Team

Staff Leadership

Jason Grumet
President
Kelly Veney Darnell
Chief Operating Officer
Jason J. Fichtner
Vice President and Chief Economist
Gwen Fortune-Blakely
Vice President of External Affairs and Marketing
Lisel Loy
Senior Vice President
G. William Hoagland
Senior Vice President
Elena Muehlenbeck
Vice President of Finance and Administration
Michele Nellenbach
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
Steve Scully
Senior Vice President of Communications
Michele Stockwell
Senior Vice President and Executive Director of BPC Action
Tycely Williams
Chief Development Officer

Founders

Howard Baker
Co-Founder; Former Senate Majority Leader
Tom Daschle
Co-Founder; Former Senate Majority Leader
Bob Dole
Co-Founder; Former Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell
Co-Founder; Former Senate Majority Leader

Board of Directors

Jason Grumet
President
Robbie Bach
Board Chair; Former President of Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft
Doyle N. Beneby, Jr.
Board Member; President and Chief Executive Officer Midland Cogeneration Venture
Julián Castro
Board Member; Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Ralph Cavanagh
Board Member; Co-Director of NRDC's Energy Program
Henry Cisneros
Former Secretary, Housing and Urban Development
Maria Contreras-Sweet
Board Member; Co-Chair, Task Force on Paid Family Leave; 24th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
John Delaney
Board Member; Former Representative from Maryland
Kimberly Olson Dorgan
Chair of BPC Action’s Board of Directors
Thomas J. Falk
Board Member; Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kimberly-Clark
C. Robert Henrikson
Board Member; Former President and CEO of MetLife, Inc.
Gary Locke
Board Member; Former Governor of Washington, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Pamela Hughes Patenaude
Former Deputy Secretary, Housing and Urban Development
Olympia Snowe
Board Member and Senior Fellow; Former Senator from Maine
Michael S. Steele
Board Member; Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor
Stacey D. Stewart
President and CEO, March of Dimes
Ron Terwilliger
Chairman Emeritus of Trammell Crow Residential Company
Charles F. Wald
Board Member and Co-Chair, National Security Program; Former Deputy Commander of EUCOM
Mark Walsh
Board Member; Managing Director, Ruxton Ventures, LLC
Leana Wen
Board Member; Professor of Health Policy and Management, George Washington University
Geisha Williams
Board Member; Former CEO and President of PG&E Corporation

Staff

Meet our team members across our policy areas and departments…

Linda Smith
Director, Early Childhood Initiative
Victoria Owens
Policy Analyst
Kelly Veney Darnell
Chief Operating Officer
Jason J. Fichtner
Vice President and Chief Economist
Shai Akabas
Director of Economic Policy
Gwen Fortune-Blakely
Vice President of External Affairs and Marketing
Andrew Carothers
Research Analyst
Sasha Mackler
Executive Director of the Energy Program
Ben Gitis
Associate Director
Danny Broberg
Senior Policy Analyst
Tanya Das
Associate Director
Xan Fishman
Director, Energy Policy and Carbon Management
G. William Hoagland
Senior Vice President
Pamela Baba
CRM Data Assistant
Jacqueline Boothe
Receptionist/Front Desk Administrative Assistant
Alyssa Fuller
Project Assistant
Dane Stangler
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Abbey Brandon
Associate Director, Applications and Analytics
Elena Muehlenbeck
Vice President of Finance and Administration
Anand Parekh, MD
Chief Medical Advisor
Michele Nellenbach
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
Audrey Cope
Special Assistant to the President
Brittany Walsh
Associate Director
Justin Carter
End User Support Specialist
John Jacobs
Policy Analyst
Tom Romanoff
Director of Technology Project
Marilyn Werber Serafini
Director of the Health Project
Danielle Draper
Project Coordinator
Steve Scully
Senior Vice President of Communications
Lesley Jantarasami
Managing Director of the Energy Program
Caroline Normile
Senior Policy Analyst
Michelle Kumar
Research Analyst
Wise Crowder
Office and Facilities Manager
Garrett Langdon
Associate Director, Financial Planning and Analysis
Kyle Huang
Recruitment and Internship Manager
Shenice Gross
System Administrator/End User Support Specialist
Naleli Askew
Associate Director of Events
Theresa Cardinal Brown
Managing Director, Immigration and Cross-Border Policy
Holly Bensur
Senior Marketing Manager
Babu Jackson
Chief Technology Officer
Michele Stockwell
Senior Vice President and Executive Director of BPC Action
Arvind Lemuel
Financial Analyst
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill
Director, Campus Free Expression Project
Phenan Kidane
Human Resources Coordinator
Hedayat Niazi
Accounting Manager
Abigail Messier
Staff Accountant
Benjamin Brophy
Director of Digital Media
Tycely Williams
Chief Development Officer
Kimberly Dean
Director, BPC Action
Alyssa Lennon
Foundation Relations Associate
Natalie Butler
Project Associate
Allison Buffett
Policy Analyst
Lauren Hopple
Director of Events
Alex Varisco
Associate Director of Digital Media
Maureen Atkins Vollmer
Senior Director of Individual Giving
Hanna Vohra
Policy Analyst
Rebecca Orbach
Project Coordinator, Housing and Infrastructure
Richard Jones
Financial Analyst
Jonathan Arias
Senior Policy analyst
Oliver J. Kim
Health Policy Director
Natalie Tham
Policy Analyst
Anna Fridley
Project Assistant
Andrew Orbe
Project Assistant
Hannah Tyler
Research Analyst
Marley Whittle
Project Assistant
Kevin Miller
Associate Director, Higher Education
Sabah Bhatnagar
Senior Policy Analyst
Michele Gilbert
Senior Policy Analyst
Uzo Obele
Controller
Lisa Harootunian
Associate Director
Emma Waters
Project Manager
Laura Hall
Managing Director, BPC Action
Faye Powers
Senior Executive Assistant
Kyle Fischer
Senior Manager, Media Relations
Hannah Hardin
Project Coordinator, BPC Action
Andrea Lau
Policy Analyst
Andrew Hu
Director, BPC Action
Wynton Henderson
Design and Digital Media Manager
Peter Steinmuller
Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Blake Johnson
Senior Manager of Media Relations
Loren Long
Senior Manager of Communications, BPC Action
Hanadi Jordan
Communications Associate
Michael Kelley
Director, BPC Action
Julia Harris
Senior Policy Analyst
Tara Hartnett
Project Coordinator
Luci Manning
Director of Media Relations
Erin Meade
Associate Director of Media Relations
Sabine Neschke
Research Analyst
John Richter
Director of the Congress Project
John Soroushian
Associate Director
Ethan Plotkin
Digital Media Assistant
Owen Minott
Policy Analyst, Housing and Infrastructure
Lauren Floro
Associate Director, Donor Relations
Tiffany Jones
Chief of Staff, Development
Matthew Weil
Director of the Elections Project
Michael Lovegrove
Project Assistant
Natalie Rogers
Media Relations Manager, J. Ronald Terwilliger Housing Policy Center
Collier Fernekes
Research Analyst
Niña Ledonio
Corporate Relations Manager
Neha Srinivasan
Project Coordinator, BPC Action
Grace Gordon
Policy Analyst
Landon Li
Corporate Relations Associate
Elise Scott
Special Assistant to Lisel Loy and Kelly Darnell
Rachel Snyderman
Associate Director, Economic Policy
Lia Martin
Development Associate
Pamela Larkin
Campaign Manager
Alejandro Marquez
Project Associate
Emerson Sprick
Policy Analyst
Kurt Redenbo
Senior Director of Foundation Relations
Tim Wahlers
Senior Director of Corporate Relations
Brady Newell
Project Manager
Erin White
Senior Manager of Foundation Relations
Dennis C. Shea
Executive Director, J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy
Michael Vavala
Senior Director of Human Resources
Rachel Orey
Senior Policy Analyst
Michael Thorning
Associate Director of Governance
Meron Tesfaye, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst
Wilson Smerconish
Special Assistant to the Housing Center
Brian O’Gara
Research Analyst
Franz Wuerfmannsdobler
Senior Advisor
Kamryn Perry
Project Associate
Jennifer Ruff
Senior Media Relations Manager
Arica Young
Associate Director
Andy Winkler
Director, Housing and Infrastructure Project
Kendall Strong
Senior Policy Analyst

Network

Katharine G. Abraham
Co-Chair, BPC’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Initiative
Julie Anderson
Senior Advisor
Haley Barbour
Co-Chair, Immigration Task Force; Former Governor of Mississippi
Dan Blair
Senior Counselor
Michael Chertoff
Co-Chair, Immigration Task Force; Former Secretary of Homeland Security
Henry Cisneros
Former Secretary, Housing and Urban Development
Kent Conrad
Co-Chair, Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings; Former Senator from North Dakota
Dominique Baker
Fellow
Tom Daschle
Co-Founder; Former Senate Majority Leader
Rick Dearborn
Senior Fellow for BPC's Campus Free Expression
Maria Contreras-Sweet
Board Member; Co-Chair, Task Force on Paid Family Leave; 24th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
George David Banks
Fellow
Karen DeSalvo
Senior Fellow
Byron L. Dorgan
Senior Fellow; Former Senator from North Dakota
Tim Doyle
Senior Policy Advisor
Eric S. Edelman
Co-Chair, Task Force on Managing Disorder in the Middle East; Former U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Turkey
Richard Fischer
Co-Chair, Consumer Protection Task Force
Bill Frist
Senior Fellow, Former Senate Majority Leader
Dan Glickman
Senior Fellow; Former Secretary of Agriculture
Lee H. Hamilton
Co-Chair, Task Force on Terrorism and Ideology; Former Representative from Indiana
Ron Haskins
Co-Chair, BPC’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Initiative
Colette D. Honorable
Senior Fellow; Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Capri S. Cafaro
Fellow
Thomas H. Kean
Co-Chair, Task Force on Terrorism and Ideology; Former Governor of New Jersey
Maggie Cordish
Fellow
Katie Harbath
Fellow
Dirk Kempthorne
Co-Chair, Commission on Political Reform; Former Governor of Idaho and Secretary of the Interior
Mike Leavitt
Co-Chair, Prevention Initiative; Former Governor of Utah and Secretary of HHS
Nick Hart
Fellow
James B. Lockhart, III
Senior Fellow; Co-Chair, Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings; Former Director of FHFA
Steven F. Hayward
Fellow; Advisor, Campus Free Expression
Casey Higgins
Fellow
Katherine Hayes
Fellow
Chris Jennings
Fellow; President, Jennings Policy Strategies
Trent Lott
Senior Fellow; Former Senate Majority Leader
Beverly G. Hudnut
Fellow
Mel Martinez
Co-Chair, Housing Commission; Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Senator from Florida
James Peake
Senior Fellow; Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Robert Kelchen
Fellow
George Miller
Former U.S. representative from California; Co-Chair, BPC's Early Childhood Initiative
Janet M. Marchibroda
Fellow
Ted McCann
Fellow
George Mitchell
Co-Founder; Former Senate Majority Leader
Edward G. Rendell
Co-Chair, Immigration Task Force; Former Governor of Pennsylvania
Mike Beebe
Governors' Council Member; Former Governor of Arkansas
Charles Robb
Co-Chair, National Security Program; Former Governor of Virginia and Senator
Suzann Morris
Fellow, Early Childhood Initiative
Steven Beshear
Governors' Council Member; Former Governor of Kentucky
Adrienne Schweer
Fellow
Jim Douglas
Governors' Council Member; Former Governor of Vermont
Kathy Roth-Douquet
Co-Chair, Task Force on Defense Personnel; CEO of Blue Star Families
Chris Gregoire
Governors' Council Member; Former Governor of Washington
Eric Rodriguez
Co-Chair, Consumer Protection Task Force
Avik Roy
Senior Advisor; President, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
David Heineman
Governors' Council Member; Former Governor of Nebraska
Rick Santorum
Former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania; Co-Chair, BPC's Early Childhood Initiative
Allyson Y. Schwartz
Co-Chair, Senior Health and Housing Task Force; Former Representative from Pennsylvania
Christopher Thomas
Fellow
Olympia Snowe
Board Member and Senior Fellow; Former Senator from Maine
Roger Wallace
Fellow; Former Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Ruth Wasem
Fellow, Immigration Project
Jim Talent
Former US Senator from Missouri; Senior Fellow
Tommy G. Thompson
Senior Fellow; Former Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of Health and Human Services
Douglas Webber
Fellow
Tevi Troy
Senior Fellow; Former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D.
Senior Advisor; President of Samaritan Health Initiatives, Inc.
Donald R. Wolfensberger
Fellow
Vin Weber
Co-Chair, Senior Health and Housing Task Force; Former Representative from Minnesota