Who We Are | Scholars Strategy Network

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Our Team

Our national staffers and steering committee support SSN members, chapters, cohorts, and working groups. Meet them below.

Careers

Steering Committee

Harvard University

Robert Bowditch Jr

Scholars Strategy Network

David desJardins

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Georgetown University

Darrick Hamilton

The New School

Alexander W. Hertel-Fernandez

Columbia University

Duke University

Suzanne Mettler

Scholars Strategy Network

Ellen Nissenbaum

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Duke University

Scholars Strategy Network

New America

Foundation for Civic Leadership

Chapter Advisory Council

University of Notre Dame

University of Maine

Barbara J. Risman

University of Illinois at Chicago

Natasha Kumar Warikoo

Tufts University

National Staff

Education Policy Fellow

Communications Intern

Membership Intern

Trainings Fellow

Senior Communications Associate

Director of Communications

Lizzy Ghedi-Ehrlich

Managing Director

Kimberly Gonzalez

Senior Digital Communications Associate

Senior Policy Associate

Natalie Griffith-Shafer

Policy Associate

Lisa M. Hernandez

Senior Reproductive Health & Rights Associate

Policy Associate

Chief Financial Officer

Senior Salesforce Administrator and IT Manager

Director of Training

Senior Accounting and Administrative Coordinator

Paola Maynard-Moll

Executive Director

Mandana Mohsenzadegan

Director of Member Engagement

Avigail S. Oren

Director of Development

Yamira Patterson

Education Policy Intern

Director of Policy

Jessica Thompson

Senior Policy Associate

Policy Fellow

Rachel Somerstein

Opinion Editor

Director of Chapters