WHO WE ARE
For over a quarter of a century, 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 |
| Deborah Wadsworth | Senior Advisor, Public Agenda |
| Judith Davidson Moyers | President, Public Affairs Television, Inc. |
| David Mathews | President, Charles F. Kettering Foundation |
| Bobby R. Inman | Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired) |
| Alice S. Huang | Senior Faculty Associate, California Institute of Technology |
| David Coleman | Founder and CEO, The Grow Network |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sidney Harman | Executive Chairman, Harman International Industries, Inc. |
President:
| Ruth A. Wooden | President |
| Scott Bittle | Director of Public Issues Analysis |
| Jean Johnson | Director, Education Insights and Director of Programs |
| Will Friedman, Ph.D. | Director, Center for Advances in Public Engagement |
| Alex Trilling | General Manager |
| Michael Hamill Remaley | Vice President, Director of Communications |
| Jonathan Rochkind | Vice President, Director of Research for Education Insights |
| Andrew Yarrow | Vice President, Director of the Washington, DC Office |
| David White | Manager, Technology and Programming |
| John Immerwahr | Senior Research Fellow |
| Steve Farkas | Senior Research Fellow |
| Lara Birnback | Senior Public Engagement Project Director |
| Amber N. Ott | Research Manager |
| John Doble | Senior Research Fellow |
| Alison Kadlec | Associate Director, Center for Advances in Public Engagement |
| Paul Gasbarra | Research Associate for Education Insights |
| Joan Austin | Administrative Assistant |
| Peiting Chen | Web Development Assistant |
| Jenny Choi | Assistant Editor |
| McKenna Morrigan | Public Engagement Associate |
| Jared Bosk | Research Associate |
| Maria Martha Chavez | Senior Engagement Research Associate |
| Shaheen Hasan | Communications Manager |
| Francie Grace | Managing Editor |
| Samantha DuPont | Research Assistant |
| Mikhail Iliatov | Graphics Designer |
| Nora Benavidez | Development Associate |
| Gwen Wright | Public Engagement Associate |
Members of the Board of Directors also serve on the Policy Review Board
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