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Alexandra Duncan

Project Director Substance Use Prevention and Treatment

Alexandra Duncan leads Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative, which supports federal and state policies to reduce the inappropriate use of opioids and increase access to evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders.

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Kristen Mizzi Angelone

Project Director

Kristen Mizzi Angelone directs Pew’s suicide risk reduction project, where she leads efforts to help hospitals and health systems expand their suicide prevention interventions and make evidence-based suicide care a part of routine health care in the...

Marcia Argust

Director

Marcia Argust directs federal conservation policy, resilience planning, and nature-based mitigation work for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. Prior to her current position, Argust led the organization’s U.S. public lands and rivers conservation...

Margaret Arnesen

Senior Officer

Margaret Arnesen supports Pew’s work on public health data sharing, with a focus on state-level policy solutions. Before joining Pew, Arnesen worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, where she developed and managed public health programs for...

Stacy Baez

Stacy Baez, Ph.D.

Senior Officer

Stacy Baez leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ global portfolio of coastal wetlands research partnerships, generating evidence to inform policy and drive conservation.

Sarah Baulch

Sarah Baulch

Senior Officer

Sarah Baulch leads the technical team with Pew’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution, focusing on helping to develop strategies to reduce the threat to marine life, coastlines, and local communities from global plastic pollution.

Angela Bednarek

Director

Angela Bednarek leads Pew’s scientific advancement portfolio, which includes efforts to support groundbreaking science and ensure that research informs public policy and improves outcomes.

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John Begala

Officer

John Begala is an officer on Pew’s energy modernization project, advancing state and federal research and policy that supports large-scale energy to meet increasing demand.

Holly Binns

Director

Holly Binns directs efforts to conserve biodiversity and improve climate resilience for people and nature in the southeastern United States and southern Appalachian region for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. She also oversees the organization’s...

Dawn Borg Costanzi

Senior Manager

Dawn Borg Costanzi leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ regional coordination efforts to deter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

Susanne Brander

Susanne Brander, Ph.D.

Project Director

Susanne Brander, Ph.D., directs scientific advancement efforts for Pew’s safer chemicals project, which aims to reduce Americans’ exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Johnny Briggs

Director

Johnny Briggs leads Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s global efforts to improve marine conservation outcomes.

Jennifer Browning

Jennifer Browning

Senior Director

Jennifer Browning oversees strategy to conserve biodiversity and improve climate resilience for people and nature under Pew’s U.S. conservation project. Prior to this role she led Pew’s work to protect coastal and marine environments in the United...

Nic Callero

Nic Callero

Senior Officer

Nic Callero works with elected officials, agencies, Tribes, and other stakeholders throughout the Western United States to enact state and federal policies that connect wildlife habitat and protect biodiversity. He has designed and shepherded nearly...

Anindita Chakraborty

Anindita Chakraborty

Officer

Anindita Chakraborty works on The Pew Charitable Trusts’ ocean governance project, focusing on deep seabed mining issues as part of Pew’s efforts to safeguard marine ecosystems from the harmful impacts of mining.

Jeff Chapman

Director

Jeff Chapman directs Pew’s state fiscal health initiative. Through cutting-edge research and customized technical assistance, he and his team help states maintain a balanced budget, prepare for downturns, invest in long-term economic growth, and...

Christophe Chevillon

Senior Manager

Dr. Christophe Chevillon leads Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s ocean conservation work in New Caledonia, where he collaborates with local communities, government leaders, scientists, and other partners to advance marine protections and strengthen...

Nichola Clark

Nichola Clark

Senior Officer

Nichola Clark leads Pew's work related to the United Nations treaty on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) as part of the Trusts’ campaign to address gaps in ocean governance through meaningful international...

Lora Clarke

Lora Clarke

Senior Officer

Lora Clarke supports Pew’s efforts to improve the adaptation and resilience of coastal ecosystems and human communities in the Southeast United States. In leading Pew’s work on the South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative, Clarke focuses on conserving 1...

Andrew Clayton

Dyrektor projektu

Andrew Clayton kieruje projektem organizacji The Pew Charitable Trusts, który ma na celu położenie kresu nadmiernym połowom w północno-zachodniej Europie, poprzez kształtowanie polityki opartej na badaniach naukowych oraz rzecznictwo. Pan Clayton...

Leo Curran

Project Director

Leo Curran oversees all Pew marine fellows program administration. Before joining Pew, Curran led the science, engineering, and technology program at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he coordinated project design, publications, and...

Emil Dediu

Senior Officer

Emil Dediu focuses on outreach to the European Union and its member states in support of creating a network of marine protections in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. He also supports the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project’s work in the Mediterranean...

Roger-Mark De Souza

Roger-Mark De Souza

Vice President Environment

Roger-Mark De Souza is vice president for environment at The Pew Charitable Trusts. In this role, he helps shape and lead a portfolio that works to conserve ecosystems and address critical threats to people and nature, including climate change and...

Kathryn de Wit

Project Director

Kathryn de Wit directs the broadband access initiative, which is working with national and state leaders to accelerate the nation’s progress on universal broadband access. Before joining Pew, de Wit was a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, where...

Thomas Dillon

Tom Dillon

Senior Vice President Environment and Crosscutting Initiatives

Tom Dillon oversees Pew’s environment portfolio and also works across Pew’s program areas to advance shared priorities and new initiatives. The environment portfolio focuses on conserving ecosystems in the United States and around the world, and on...

Ryan Dolan

Managing Director

Ryan Dolan is managing director of the Blue Nature Alliance, where he leads global efforts to advance large-scale ocean conservation and works at the intersection of conservation, policy, and partnerships. He oversees the alliance’s portfolio of...

Sheri Doyle

Senior Officer

Sheri Doyle leads Pew’s federal strategy to develop a more robust public health data infrastructure and enhance the exchange of public health data. She was previously a senior manager with Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative,...

David Draine

Principal Officer

David Draine is a principal officer with Pew’s state fiscal policy project. His research has helped policymakers understand the impact of long-term liabilities on states’ fiscal health and sustainability and provided tools to help manage those bills...

Sara Dube

Director

Sara Dube directs the Fiscal 50 project and the managing fiscal risks initiative for The Pew Charitable Trusts. These projects examine key trends in state finances and help policymakers develop and adopt evidence-based strategies that strengthen the...

Alexandra Duncan

Project Director

Alexandra Duncan leads Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative, which supports federal and state policies to reduce the inappropriate use of opioids and increase access to evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders.

Courtney Durham

Courtney Durham Shane

Senior Officer

Courtney Durham Shane works on energy and conservation policy across sectors and political perspectives at the subnational, national, and international levels, in support of practical, durable solutions. Her background includes work with governments,...

Peter Edwards

Peter Edwards, Ph.D.

Senior Officer

Peter Edwards, Ph.D., supports Pew’s environmental programs with a focus on conservation economics and finance, marine science, and environmental policy. He has expertise in natural resource economic valuation, marine policy, terrestrial and marine...

Larry Eichel

Senior Adviser

Larry Eichel advises The Pew Charitable Trusts on key policy issues affecting Philadelphia.

Tahiana Fajardo Vargas

Tahiana Fajardo Vargas

Officer

Tahiana Fajardo Vargas manages The Pew Charitable Trusts’ regional coordination efforts in Latin America to support fisheries governance and deter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

Liz Farmer

Liz Farmer

Senior Officer

Liz Farmer is a senior officer with Pew’s Fiscal 50 interactive platform and manages content for the “Budget Threads” series, which offers timely policy insights on how economic and policy developments affect state finances. She also helps manage key...

Jon Fisher

Jon Fisher

Senior Officer

Jon Fisher focuses on land and freshwater conservation across Pew. He helps to design research to improve its impact, and explores new lines of work (and how to adapt existing work).

Kathleen H. Fitzgerald

Director

Katheen H. Fitzgerald is The Pew Charitable Trusts’ director for Enduring Earth, an ambitious collaboration to accelerate conservation and sustainability. In this role, she leads the design of project finance for permanence (PFP) initiatives around...

Regan Fitzgerald

Regan Fitzgerald

Senior Manager

Regan Fitzgerald manages outreach and advocacy for Pew’s quality skills and education pathways project. The project assists states in building data collection capabilities for short-term nondegree credentials and identifying quality standards,...

Erin Fleck

Project Director

Erin Fleck directs public policy efforts for Pew’s safer chemicals project, which aims to reduce Americans’ exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Colin Foard

Colin Foard

Project Director

Colin Foard directs Pew’s managing fiscal risks project. He leads research and engages stakeholders to improve their understanding of new and emerging risks to state budgets and to ensure that policymakers have the data and evidence needed to...

Donna Frisby-Greenwood

Senior Vice President Philadelphia and Scientific Advancement

Donna Frisby-Greenwood is a senior vice president at The Pew Charitable Trusts, leading the organization’s work throughout the Philadelphia region; with private and public funders and government, academic, and civic leaders across the country to...

Catherine Fuller

Catherine Fuller

Senior Officer

Catherine Fuller manages The Pew Charitable Trusts’ civic initiatives grantmaking portfolio in Philadelphia, which funds organizations, projects, and spaces that improve the connectedness and vitality of communities across the city. In addition, she...

Grantly Galland, Ph.D.

Project Director

Grantly Galland, Ph.D., leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ conservation advocacy with regional fisheries management organizations around the world.

Steve Ganey

Senior Vice President Strategy

Steve Ganey leads Pew’s strategy portfolio, which is responsible for enhancing the organization’s efforts to generate ideas for new projects and larger bodies of work, strengthening the design of program strategies and initiatives, and ensuring that...

Sheri Gentekos

Principal Officer

Sheri Gentekos works alongside the Philadelphia and scientific advancement portfolios’ senior leaders and provides operational and department-wide support, driving internal efforts to enhance coordination and collaboration among projects and teams.

Dave Gershman

Dave Gershman

Senior Officer

Dave Gershman leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ conservation advocacy with Pacific regional fisheries management organizations.

Francisco Solís Germani

Project Director

Francisco “Pancho” Solís Germani directs Pew’s efforts in his native Chile, where he works with partner organizations and other stakeholders to protect Patagonia, one of the world’s most pristine wilderness areas, with land and waters spanning a...

Jamie Gibbon

Jamie Gibbon

Senior Officer

Jamie Gibbon leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ efforts to improve compliance and increase monitoring of fisheries on the high seas. He also supports Pew’s work to build a sustainable and community-led seaweed farming sector.

Reyna Gilbert

Principal Associate

Reyna Gilbert supports Pew’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution , including assessing plastic value chains for countries and helping design national policies that reduce plastic pollution in the environment.

Josh Goodman

Senior Officer

Josh Goodman helps lead research on fiscal management and long-term budget sustainability as part of Pew’s state fiscal health project. He has also served as a primary author for Pew studies that examine how states should evaluate tax incentives and...

Zachary Greenberg

Zack Greenberg

Officer

Zack Greenberg coordinates policy development and outreach for Pew’s efforts to ensure clean water, abundant wildlife, and healthy working lands for communities in the Southeast U.S. He also leads Pew’s work with the U.S. aquaculture industry to...

Amanda Grigg

Project Director

Amanda Grigg directs Pew’s state science and technology policy fellowship initiative. In this role, she leads efforts to help states build durable capacity for evidence-informed decision-making by embedding scientific and technical expertise in state...

Justin Grubich

Officer

Justin Grubich leads Pew’s work to develop and implement science-based policy and management goals that promote the resilience of coastal and freshwater habitats, protect biodiversity, and foster sustainable use of natural resources in the Southeast...

Elinor Haider

Elinor Haider

Senior Director

Elinor Haider oversees The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work on important issues affecting Philadelphia and peer cities, providing timely research and analysis and collaborating with partners to identify and implement policy solutions.

Chad Hanson

Chad Hanson

Officer

Chad Hanson leads Pew’s work to develop and implement science-based conservation policies and plans in the Southeast United States, including fostering resiliency, sustainability, and biodiversity in the Apalachicola River Basin. Leveraging...

Bobby Hayden

Officer

Bobby Hayden coordinates policy, outreach, and coalition work for Pew’s efforts to ensure clean water, abundant wildlife, and healthy working lands for communities on the United States’ West Coast.

Thomas Hickey

Thomas Hickey

Project Director

Thomas Hickey oversees The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work to preserve coastal wetlands, including country partnerships across the Latin American, Caribbean, and Western Indian Ocean regions, and leads engagement with policy stakeholders.

Lila Hobbs

Lila Hobbs

Officer

Lila Hobbs works on Pew's seaweed farming project, where she helps build the foundation for a sustainable and inclusive seaweed farming industry that delivers social, environmental, and economic benefits to coastal communities in Alaska. She brings...

Glen Holmes

Glen Holmes

Senior Officer

Glen Holmes leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ conservation advocacy with Indo-Pacific regional fisheries management organizations.

Rachel Hopkins

Director

Rachel Hopkins leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work to strengthen international fisheries management. She also leads Pew’s work to build a sustainable and community-led seaweed farming sector.

Alex Horowitz

Alex Horowitz

Project Director

Alex Horowitz guides research for Pew’s housing policy initiative, focusing on how home financing, the housing shortage, and land-use regulations affect household well-being. He has also conducted extensive research on consumer finance issues,...

Jake Horowitz

Senior Director

Jake Horowitz oversees Pew’s safety and justice portfolio, which brings together the research, solutions, and momentum that decision-makers need to transform the nation’s civil and criminal justice systems. Currently, the portfolio focuses on mental...

Kristiane Huber

Kristiane Huber

Officer

Kristiane Huber works to advance state-level climate resilience planning with Pew’s U.S. conservation project. She engages with state and local leaders to develop and enact policy and resilience planning to address disaster risk from flooding,...

Kil Huh of Pew Charitable Trusts

Kil Huh, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President Government Performance

Kil Huh, Ph.D., is a senior vice president and head of Pew’s government performance division, which seeks to strengthen the effectiveness of government at the federal, state, and local levels. The portfolio includes a wide range of initiatives,...

Colby Humphrey

Officer

Colby Humphrey is an officer with Pew’s broadband access initiative, and his research focuses on broadband access and affordability challenges throughout the U.S.

David Hyun

David Hyun, M.D.

Project Director

David Hyun, M.D., directs Pew’s state health solutions project, which works with policymakers to narrow health disparities, reduce health care costs, and reach better outcomes by improving how data is used.

Neel Inamdar

Neel Inamdar

Senior Officer

Neel Inamdar is a senior officer at Pew where he helps lead the development of innovative sustainable financing mechanisms that advance Pew’s large-scale conservation efforts. His work includes developing financing solutions for Enduring Earth and...

Brandee Izquierdo

Brandee Izquierdo, Ph.D.

Director

Brandee Izquierdo, Ph.D., oversees Pew’s behavioral health portfolio, which includes the substance use prevention and treatment initiative and the suicide risk reduction project.

Julian Jackson

Julian Jackson

Project Director

Julian Jackson heads Pew’s work to safeguard the marine environment by advocating for precaution in the development of a management regime for deep seabed mining at the International Seabed Authority. He also leads engagement in Europe on Pew’s...

Tanisha Jackson

Tanisha Jackson, Ph.D.

Project Director

Tanisha Jackson, Ph.D., leads Pew’s biomedical programs, which include the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences, and the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research....

Cameron Jaggard

Officer

Cameron Jaggard works to protect biodiversity, advance habitat connectivity, and improve adaptation and resilience of ecosystems and human communities in the United States’ Southeast coastal states. Jaggard leads Pew’s river reconnection and...

Carolina Jarpa

Carolina Jarpa

Officer

Carolina Jarpa’s work at Pew’s conserving nature for Chile project focuses on supporting the local coalition’s efforts to advance unprecedented conservation policies and collaborations among organizations working to protect Patagonia. She is...

Isabel Jarrett

Senior Manager

Isabel Jarrett leads advocacy work for Pew’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution in the European Union and at the World Trade Organization. Jarrett previously led Pew’s campaign to reduce harmful fisheries subsidies, working in collaboration with the...

Kim Jensen

Kim Jensen

Senior Manager

Kim Jensen co-leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work to conserve coastal wetlands in Belize, Jamaica, and Kenya and supports Pew’s efforts on peatland conservation.

Megan Jungwiwattanaporn

Megan Jungwiwattanaporn

Officer

Megan Jungwiwattanaporn supports Pew’s crosscutting environmental policy team, providing expertise and coordination to advance Pew’s engagement in multilateral forums, including the United Nations, World Trade Organization, International Union for...

Masha Kalinina

Senior Officer

Masha Kalinina supports Pew’s environment projects and partnerships, with a primary focus on designing and executing political strategies to deliver campaign objectives. Between 2018 and 2022, she played a lead role in advancing Pew’s efforts to...

Liz Karan

Director

Liz Karan leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ campaign to address gaps in ocean governance through meaningful international cooperation. Working closely with key stakeholders and partner organizations, Karan focuses on developing policy mechanisms to...

Nicholas Kirkham

Nicholas Kirkham

Officer

Nicholas Kirkham works on Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project’s efforts to create a representative system of marine protected areas (MPAs) and improve fishing conservation measures in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.

Emily Klein

Emily Klein, Ph.D.

Officer

Emily Klein, Ph.D., supports Pew’s work on conserving and sustaining marine and freshwater systems and their vital connections to people. She has expertise in fisheries science and marine ecology, as well as in innovative analytical and modeling...

Patrick Lane

Senior Manager

Patrick Lane works with key stakeholders throughout the Intermountain West to protect and reconnect rivers and wetlands, conserve key wildlife migration routes, and preserve areas of critical importance to biodiversity for Pew’s U.S. conservation...

Keith Lawrence

Keith Lawrence

Project Director

Keith Lawrence leads a team of Pew experts on conservation finance, climate mitigation and adaptation, and economic approaches to conservation. Lawrence also provides guidance to several Pew projects, such as preventing ocean plastics and protecting...

Laura Lightbody

Laura Lightbody

Director

Laura Lightbody directs Pew’s energy modernization project, which works with state and federal policymakers to modernize the grid to meet increasing energy demand.

Ruth Lindberg

Project Director

Ruth Lindberg directs Pew’s public health data improvement project, which conducts research, provides technical assistance, and advocates for policies, resources, and practices to enable the rapid and effective use of health care data to advance...

Shubash Lohani

Shubash Lohani

Senior Director

Shubash Lohani directs global conservation initiatives for Pew, including the Blue Nature Alliance and Enduring Earth.

Aly Lorenz

Project Director

Aly Lorenz is a project director working on private sector engagement for Pew’s safer chemicals project, which aims to reduce Americans’ exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. This work includes helping businesses adopt safer alternatives to...

Andy Maggi

Andy Maggi

Officer

Andy Maggi works with Pew’s U.S. conservation project to safeguard and reconnect freshwater systems and terrestrial landscapes in states along the Pacific Coast. Maggi also leads Pew’s efforts in Oregon to advance policies that prioritize landscape...

Katie Martin

Project Director

Katie Martin directs research for The Pew Charitable Trusts on citywide trends and public opinion in Philadelphia. Her areas of focus include the project’s annual State of the City report, citywide resident polling, and Pew’s analysis of the...

Steve Marx

Senior Officer

Steve Marx supports Alaska Indigenous peoples’ fishery management and marine conservation priorities for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. He also works to advance implementation of ecosystem-based fisheries management in the North Pacific.

Melissa Maynard

Project Director

Melissa Maynard oversees Pew’s Fiscal 50 interactive platform. The resource helps policymakers understand fiscal, economic, and demographic trends affecting their states by tracking tax revenue, reserves, employment rates, Medicaid spending, and...

Alaina McBournie

Alaina McBournie

Senior Manager

Alaina McBournie is a senior manager with Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative. She works with states to identify and advance solutions that enhance access to substance use disorder treatment. McBournie also oversees research and...

Jennifer McPartland

Director

Jennifer McPartland, Ph.D, directs Pew's safer chemicals project, which aims to reduce Americans’ exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Greg Mennis

Principal Officer

Greg Mennis leads state engagement planning and strategy across Pew’s fiscal and economic policy portfolio. He also conducts research and analysis exploring how economic risks can affect state finances.

Kate Meyer

Kate Meyer

Officer

Kate Meyer manages The Pew Charitable Trusts’ research and policy partnerships to advance mangrove and seagrass conservation across Latin America and the Caribbean.

KerriLynn Miller

Manager

KerriLynn Miller leads the country-level work to develop national plans and policies to reduce plastic pollution and supports crosscutting topics on Pew’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution.

Yaron Miller

Project Director

Yaron Miller leads the state policy and campaigns portfolio of Pew’s energy modernization project, which works with state and federal policymakers to modernize the grid to meet increasing energy demand.

Christabel Mitchell

Christabel Mitchell

Project Director

Christabel Mitchell leads Pew’s marine conservation work in Australia, working with local partners, Traditional Owners, scientists, and communities on securing large-scale enduring outcomes for nature and people.

Kendra Moore

Officer

Kendra Moore is an officer with Pew’s conservation Canada and seaweed farming projects, supporting marine protection and sustainable resource management. She works with partners to advance marine protected areas in British Columbia, the development...

Patrick Morgan

Project Director

Patrick J. Morgan works to advance The Pew Charitable Trusts’ collaboration with policymakers and civic partners to improve government effectiveness in Philadelphia.

Alex Clayton Moya

Alex Clayton Moya

Officer

Alex Clayton Moya works to incorporate conservation and restoration of coastal blue carbon and peatland habitats in state and national climate policies for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. She leads efforts to engage primarily with state agencies as...

Peter Muller

Peter Muller

Senior Officer

Peter Muller is a senior officer with Pew’s managing fiscal risks project and conducts research and engages policymakers on topics such as natural disaster budgeting, other new and emerging risks, and state management of federal funds.

Leah Mupas Segui

Leah Mupas Segui, Ph.D.

Principal Associate

Leah Mupas Segui supports Pew’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution. She provides technical expertise and coordinates international collaborations to advance the project’s goal of developing enforceable policies that will reduce the amount of plastic...

Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy

Senior Director

Mary Murphy directs Pew’s fiscal and economic policy initiatives, leading a portfolio that supports state and local decision-makers in building long-term fiscal sustainability and promoting economic opportunity. Her work includes overseeing new...

Jenny Netherton

Jenny Netherton

Officer

Jenny Netherton is an officer on Pew’s energy modernization project, leading state campaigns to advance solutions for transmission infrastructure in the United States.

Tim Nicol

Director

Tim Nicol leads Pew’s program work across Australia. Working with individual campaign managers, Nicol oversees Pew’s marine conservation, Indigenous land management, rivers and protected area conservation campaigns.

Aleena Oberthur

Aleena Oberthur

Project Director

Aleena Oberthur is a project director with Pew’s state fiscal policy project. She oversees research related to critical state policy issues including long-term liabilities, public sector retirement system design and funding, and investments in and...

Phillip Oliff

Project Director

Phillip Oliff is the project director for Pew’s work to ensure that workers have high-quality pathways into the labor force. Previously, he was a leader on Pew’s student loan initiative, focusing on the challenges of, and possible solutions for,...

Kim Olson

Kim Olson

Senior Officer

Kim Olson provides expertise and technical assistance to state governments studying, legislating, or implementing automated savings programs as part of Pew’s retirement savings team. These programs provide private sector employees who lack access to...

Jim Palardy, Ph.D.

Director

Jim Palardy leads Pew’s work to assess and strengthen the evidence base for the organization’s conservation science and environmental portfolio, providing scientific advice to the environmental leadership team to help guide and shape its strategic...

Travis Plunkett

Senior Director

Travis Plunkett oversees Pew’s housing, labor, and education portfolio. Under his leadership, projects apply a rigorous, analytical approach to the study and development of policy recommendations. Plunkett’s work focuses on increasing access to safe,...

Maureen Quinlan

Senior Manager

Maureen Quinlan leads Pew’s work to decarbonize the grid, including research on the economic and social impacts of carbon reduction policies. She also serves as a subject matter expert with policymakers and stakeholders. Quinlan’s efforts inform...

Matt Rand

Senior Director

Matt Rand joined Pew as director of what is now the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project in 2013. He works with local communities, governments, and scientists around the world to protect and conserve some of the Earth’s most important and unspoiled...

Makarena Roa

Makarena Roa

Senior Officer

Makarena Roa’s work at Pew focuses on engaging and building bottom-up relations with local communities and authorities, Indigenous peoples, and regional nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Chilean Patagonia. Doing so is critical to achieving...

Winnie Roberts, Ph.D.

Vice President

Guinnevere (Winnie) Roberts is vice president for environment at The Pew Charitable Trusts, helping shape and influence its multifaced environmental portfolio and oversee significant elements of the organization’s environmental and crosscutting work.

Tara Roche

Tara Roche

Project Director

Tara Roche leads Pew’s housing policy initiative, conducting original analyses of the safety, affordability, and availability of small mortgages and alternative financial arrangements used to purchase manufactured homes and other low-cost housing.

Kristin Romens

Director

Kristin Romens directs the Pew Fund for Health and Human Services, overseeing Pew’s grantmaking and support for Philadelphia-area nonprofits that serve individuals and families facing complex challenges rooted in poverty.

Ruth Rosenthal

Ruth Rosenthal

Project Director

Ruth Rosenthal directs state and local court policy and research for The Pew Charitable Trusts. She focuses on the profound impact that the civil and criminal legal systems have on people’s lives. The project helps these courts examine current...

Carrie Sandstedt

Carrie Sandstedt

Senior Officer

Carrie Sandstedt leads Pew’s work to protect and reconnect rivers, wetlands, and coastal areas and conserve important lands and wildlife habitat in the Western United States. Her efforts, as part of Pew’s U.S. conservation project, focus on advancing...

Jen Sawada

Senior Manager

Jen Sawada provides strategic guidance and project management support for the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project. In that capacity, she focuses on campaigns that work to promote a conservation network of marine protected areas, ecological corridors,...

Daniel Schaeffer

Senior Manager

Daniel Schaeffer works to advance The Pew Charitable Trusts’ efforts to strengthen enforcement in support of ocean conservation.

John Scott

Project Director

John Scott directs Pew’s retirement savings project, which conducts original research and works with experts and policymakers to understand the barriers to retirement savings in the United States; policy initiatives that might increase retirement...

John Seebach

Project Director

John Seebach manages work to conserve land and freshwater and advance policies to improve the resilience of these ecosystems to climate change in southern Appalachia for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. Previously, Seebach led Pew’s efforts to secure...

Victoria Sheppard

Senior Officer

Victoria Sheppard helps to lead Pew’s conservation Canada project in Ottawa (on traditional unceded territory of the Anishnaabeg people), where she works with partners to ensure progress toward Canada’s marine conservation goals, from marine...

Rachel Siegel

Rachel Siegel

Senior Officer

Rachel Siegel guides research and policy for Pew’s housing policy initiative, focusing on manufactured and other lower cost homes. In this role, she conducts original research and analysis on the availability, safety, and affordability of mortgages...

Matt Skroch

Matt Skroch

Director

Matt Skroch directs work to conserve biodiversity and improve climate resilience for people and nature throughout the Pacific, Intermountain West, and Alaska for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. Previously he oversaw Pew’s efforts to improve...

Lauren Spurrier

Lauren Spurrier

Senior Director

Lauren Spurrier leads Pew’s work to conserve environmentally important ecosystems across the globe—including public lands in the western United States, Canada’s boreal forest, Australia’s Outback, and Chile’s Patagonia region—as well as efforts to...

Julie Sulc

Senior Officer

Julie Sulc is a senior officer overseeing a portfolio of grants related to religion and society. Her current work focuses on identifying promising approaches to bridging religious differences and countering bias against religion and religious...

Kira Sullivan-Wiley

Kira Sullivan-Wiley, Ph.D.

Senior Officer

Kira Sullivan-Wiley, Ph.D., focuses on the human dimensions of conservation in Pew’s environmental portfolio, providing support to teams thinking about human impacts, behavior, and decision-making.

Lauren Swaddell

Lauren Swaddell

Principal Associate

Lauren Swaddell works across The Pew Charitable Trusts’ environment portfolio to secure conservation outcomes that provide long-term benefits for nature and people. She advances Pew’s work in supporting Indigenous Pacific Islander-led marine...

Brett Swift

Brett Swift

Project Director

Brett Swift leads work protecting and restoring freshwater, terrestrial, coastal, and marine ecosystems and advancing policies to improve the resilience of these ecosystems to climate change in Oregon and Washington for Pew’s U.S. conservation...

Ama Takyi-Laryea

Ama Takyi-Laryea

Senior Manager

Ama Takyi-Laryea manages Pew’s quality skills and education pathways project, leading the team’s research and formulating its methodology. With over 20 years of experience in research, monitoring, and evaluation, Takyi-Laryea focuses on developing...

Kathy Talkington

Senior Director

Kathy Talkington oversees teams of policy experts, scientists, and staff who lead engagement for Pew’s work on public health issues, including the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the need for new antibiotics and safe drugs, health care...

Donatien Tanret

Donatien Tanret

Principal Officer

Donatien Tanret manages the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project’s efforts in French Polynesia. He collaborates with local governments, elected officials, and the community to work toward protecting French Polynesian waters and creating rāhui, a...

David Tecklin, Ph.D.

Project Director

David Tecklin, Ph.D., drives Pew’s work to conserve the Pantanal and Gran Chaco of South America, working closely with partner organizations in the region to expand conservation management for key ecological areas.

Justin Theal

Justin Theal

Senior Officer

Justin Theal is a senior officer with Pew’s Fiscal 50 project and manages research on key state fiscal trends—including revenue, spending, and reserves—while providing data-driven insights that help policymakers understand and navigate complex fiscal...

Rebecca Thiess

Rebecca Thiess

Manager

Rebecca Thiess helps lead Pew’s managing fiscal risks project, which focuses on how federal policies affect states. In this position, she oversees and conducts original research and analysis on various aspects of the federal and state fiscal...

Sylvia Troost

Project Director

Sylvia Troost works on natural climate solutions, with an emphasis on coastal blue carbon and other wetland habitats, resiliency planning, and federal coastal policy, for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. Her portfolio includes advancing nature-based...

Natacha Tullis

Natacha Tullis

Senior Officer

Natacha Tullis leads Pew’s efforts to advance European Union legislation to curb microplastic pollution with Pew’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution.

Jean-Christophe Vandevelde

Manager

Jean-Christophe Vandevelde works to advance The Pew Charitable Trusts’ efforts to embed biodiversity protections in the international governance of large-scale fisheries.

Jake Varn

Jake Varn

Officer

Jake Varn is an associate manager with Pew’s broadband access initiative. He provides technical assistance to state broadband offices through Pew’s broadband education and training initiative.

Ellen Ward

Ellen Ward, Ph.D.

Officer

Ellen Ward, Ph.D., works with Pew’s conservation science team, where she focuses on furthering climate adaptation and resilience solutions in the U.S. and internationally.

Brian Watts

Officer

Brian Watts leads Pew’s research and analysis that informs federal and state energy policy and decision makers. In this role, he works at the intersection of data, environment, and policy, advancing efforts to modernize the grid, scale distributed...

Anna Wearn

Officer

Anna Wearn works with stakeholders and decision-makers in the Intermountain West to conserve key wildlife migration routes, rivers, and public lands for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. Currently, she is advancing conservation campaigns in Montana,...

Pía Weber

Pía Weber

Officer

Pía Weber is an environmental and administrative lawyer leading Pew's work to protect Patagonia's rivers, advancing the conserving nature for Chile project’s freshwater conservation efforts.

Thomas Wheatley

Tom Wheatley

Project Director

Tom Wheatley manages efforts to increase resiliency for biodiversity and vulnerable communities in the southeastern U.S. for Pew’s U.S. conservation project. In this role, he works to support and expand the National Estuarine Research Reserve System...

Elizabeth Wilson

Senior Director

Elizabeth Wilson leads the Pew environmental policy team that focuses on securing policy change at various levels of government, from state and federal to multilateral forums such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.

Esther Wozniak

Esther Wozniak

Senior Manager

Esther Wozniak works to advance The Pew Charitable Trusts’ advocacy for sustainable global fisheries, particularly through Atlantic and Mediterranean regional fisheries management organizations.

Elaine Young

Elaine Young

Officer

Elaine Young conducts research for The Pew Charitable Trusts to identify gaps in efforts to deter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

Fatima Yousofi

Senior Officer

Fatima Yousofi leads the state fiscal policy project’s work examining additional long-term liabilities to state and local governments budgets, including the accumulated deferred maintenance of public infrastructure. Her research also explores...

Rachel Zetts

Rachel Zetts

Senior Officer

Rachel Zetts is a senior officer with Pew’s state health solutions project, which works with policymakers to reduce health care costs and reach better outcomes by improving how data is used. The project helps states to establish data partnerships...

Anelise Zimmer

Anelise Zimmer

Officer

Anelise Zimmer co-leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ coastal wetlands conservation efforts in Costa Rica, Panama, and Tanzania and advances international coastal wetlands policy and partnerships.