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The People Behind The Grand Bargain

We unite Americans around a practical plan to advance seven objectives that over 80% of citizens see as critical to their future.

Our Team

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Sol Erdman

Founder
& CEO

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Liz Sheldon

Director
of Development

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Mike Ingrao

Advisor
on Engaging Congress

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Leah Spitzer

Office
Manager

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Hannah Bouillon 

Administrative Coordinator for the Executive Team

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Richard Schwartz

Chief
of Staff

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Christopher Hayes

Senior Advisor, Media, Engagement & Public Affairs

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Vinay Orekondy

Senior
Advisor

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David Fairman

Senior
Advisor

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Tyler Hughes

Marketing & Comms Coordinator

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David Levy

Director of Marketing & Communications

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Patricia Neal

Senior Advisor on
Philanthropy

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Jeff Holland

Advisor
on Fiscal Policy

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Pooja Bachani

Program
and Engagement

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Kristina Becvar

Director of
Partnerships

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Debilyn Molineaux

Director
of Administration

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Howard 'Bud' Wilson

Advisor
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Jonathan Herrera

Partnerships Team Associate Project Manager

Core Team

Grand Bargain Expert Team

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Eric Hanushek

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (Stanford), specializing in economic analysis of educational issues. Won the Yidan Prize for research.

Glenn Hubbard

Dean Emeritus of Columbia Business School. Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Former Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Robert Reischauer

President Emeritus, Urban Institute. Former director of the Congressional Budget Office. Former trustee of Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern. Former Director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings. Scholar at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Michael Strain (Team Co-Leader)

Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute. Member of Aspen Economic Strategy Group. Research fellow at Germany’s IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

Bill Hoagland

Senior Vice President, Bipartisan Policy Center. Former Director of the Senate Budget Committee. Participated in major federal budget negotiations throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Maya MacGuineas

President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Government. Specializes in budget, tax, and economic policies. Serves as a consistent resource on Capitol Hill and international media outlets.

Gerard Robinson

Fellow of Practice, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (UVA). Former Secretary of Education in Virginia. Former Commissioner of Education in Florida.

Richard Schmalensee

Former Dean of Sloan School of Management, MIT. Former Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Founder and President, American Action Forum. Former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Former senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Richard V. Reeves

Senior Fellow, Brookings. Specializes in economic studies. Former European Business Speaker of the Year. Former principal policy advisor to the Minister of Welfare Reform in Great Britain.

Isabel Sawhill (Team Co-Leader)

Senior Fellow and former Director of Economic Studies at Brookings. Former Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Eugene Steuerle

Fellow, Urban Institute. Former Deputy Secretary for Treasury. Co-founder and former President of National Tax Association. One of the chief architects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

Board of Advisors

Barry Anderson

Former Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office

Larry Diamond

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Founding Co-Editor, Journal of Democracy

Hahrie Han

Inaugural Director, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Adi Ignatius

Editor, Harvard Business Review

Thomas Kahn

Distinguished Fellow, Center for Congressional & Presidential Studies, American University

Seth Radwell

Author of American Schism, winner of the International Book Award for Best General Nonfiction

Jerry Taylor

Co-Founder and Former President of the Niskanen Center

Steve Bartlett

Former President of the Financial Services Roundtable and former mayor of Dallas

‍Francis Fukuyama

Professor, Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

Jake Harriman

Founder and CEO, More Perfect Union

Francis Johnson

Former President, Take Back Our Republic

Joseph V. Kennedy

Former Senior Economist with the Joint Economic Committee in Congress

Eugene Steuerle

Richard Fischer chair at the Urban Institute; co-founder, Tax Policy Center

David Walker

Former Comptroller General of the United States

Andrew Card

Former Chief of Staff to the President of the United States

Pearce Godwin

Founder of Listen First Project and Listen First Coalition

DeVone Holt

President and CEO, Muhammad Ali Center

Kelly Johnston

Former Secretary of the U.S. Senate

Carolyn Lukensmeyer

Executive Director Emeritus, National Institute for Civil Discourse

Lawrence Susskind

Vice Chair and Co-Founder, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School

Charles Wheelan

Founder and Co-Chair, Unite America

Advisors
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The Center for Collaborative Democracy is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit and the sponsor of the Grand Bargain Project. We strive to help every American reach their potential by working with business leaders, consumer advocates, labor unions, environmentalists, civil rights groups and other major stakeholders to develop innovative solutions for our nation’s most critical problems. We see that process as necessary to reduce the hyper-polarization that threatens our democracy.

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