Meet the Team - Economic Security Project

Board of Directors
Staff
Fellows

Board of Directors

Natalie Foster

President and Founder

Chris Hughes

Board Chair and Founder

Aisha Nyandoro

Board Member

Dorian Warren

Founder

Felicia Wong

Board Treasurer

Staff

Taylor Jo Isenberg

Executive Director

Sara Abdel Rahim

Vice President of Development

Leydy Abreu

Vice President of Finance and Operations

Andrea Aguilar

Digital Strategist

Ethan Arbuthnot

Associate Director, Major Gifts

Anna Aurilio

Senior Director of Campaigns

Chrissy Blitz

Vice President of Communications and External Affairs

Adriane Brown

Senior Communications Director

Michael Bryer

Development Operations Associate

Becky Chao

Director of Policy and Research

Michael Conti

Project Manager

Cara Rose DeFabio

Senior Director of Narrative Strategy

Andrea Diaz

Executive and Operations Associate

Mary Durden

Associate Director

Jessica Evans

Executive Assistant

Hannah Gregor

Events Manager

Tesbih Habbal

Communications Strategist

Shafeka Hashash

Director of Cash Initiatives

Mana Kharrazi

Director of State Cash Campaigns

Mike Konczal

Senior Director of Policy and Research

Marta Kuersten Wolaver

Director of Development

Mónica V. Lazo

California Campaigns Director

Erion Benjamin Malasi

Illinois Policy and Advocacy Director

Mona Masri

California Director of Strategic Initiatives

Lynnette Miranda

Chief of Staff

Layla Oghabian

Legislative Advocate

Teri Olle

Vice President, Economic Security California

Harish I. Patel

Vice President of Partnerships

Kat Phan

Policy and Research Associate

Jazmin Phillips

Senior Manager of Accounting

Kira Resnick

Director of Finance and Administration

Adam Ruben

Vice President of Campaigns and Political Strategy

Sarah Saheb

Director of Economic Security Illinois

Zoe Schlittenhardt

Senior Manager of Human Resources and Talent Operations

Jenna Severson

Deputy Communications Director

Lacey Slay

Associate Director of Development

Chloe Stryker

Events Director

Kelli Smith

Senior Director of Campaigns Research

Molly Tilghman

Associate Director of Development

Suz Warshell

Associate Director of Operations and Finance

Dr. Victor Roy, MD, PhD

Family Physician and Sociologist

Dr. Eduardo Ochoa, Jr., MD

Pediatrician

Morgan Miles

Doula

Dr. Zea Malawa, MD

Mother, Pediatrician and Public Health Professional

Dr. Tresha A. Gibbs, MD

Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Physician, Epidemiologist, and Public Servant

Dr. Kira Bona, MD, MPH

Pediatric Oncologist

Bria Bailey, MS, MTM

Community Birth Worker, Doula, Apprentice Midwife, and Mama

Shafeka Hashash

Associate Director of Guaranteed Income at Economic Security Project

Ayanna Albertson-Gay

Artist

Brian Baez

Content Creator

Jessica “Ka” Burbank

Content Creator

Nessa Diosdado

Content Creator

Joshua Doss

Pollster and Political Strategist

Akilah Hughes

Podcast Host and Writer

Michael Mezzatesta

Content Creator

Cara Nicole O’Malley

Content Creator

Max Read

Journalist and Writer

John Russell

Journalist and Content Creator

Jhumpa Battacharya

Co-President of The Maven Collaborative

Teri Olle

California Campaign Director at Economic Security Project

Mónica V. Lazo

Southern California Program Director at Economic Security Project

Mayor Darrell Steinberg

Mayor of the City of Sacramento

Libby Schaaf

Former Mayor of the City of Oakland

Kristina Bas Hamilton

KBH Advocacy

Adriana Ramos-Yamamoto

Senior Policy Analyst at California Budget & Policy Center

Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva

67th California State Assembly District

Assemblymember Isaac G. Bryan

55th California State Assembly District

Jose Cordon

Cordon Concepts

Senator Dave Cortese

California's 15th State Senatorial district

Mayor Martha Guerrero

Mayor of the City of West Sacramento

Kimberly Lewis

Abundant Birth Project SF Participant

Dr. Sheri A Lippman

Professor of Medicine Co-Director at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Division of Prevention Science | University of California San Francisco

Dr. Zea Malawa

Director of Expecting Justice and Perinatal Equity Medical Director at San Francisco Department of Public Health

Sukhi Samra

Director of Mayors for Guaranteed Income

Sevly Snguon

PhD Student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Kimberly Serrano

Director of the Center for Inclusion and Belonging at American Immigration Council

Michael Tubbs

Special Advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom for Economic Mobility and Opportunity

Megan Whelan

Deputy Director at the California Domestic Workers Coalition

Devon Gray

President of End Poverty in California

Andrew Cheyne

Managing Director of Public Policy at GRACE/End Child Poverty California

Simone Price

Director of Organizing at the Center for Employment Opportunities

Nabila Dunbar

Advocacy Program Manager, National Jewish Council of Women, Los Angeles

Karina Melendez

Coalition for Reentry Cash

Kim Johnson

Director of the California Department of Social Services

Sameera Fazili

Former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council of the United States

Jerusalem Demsas

Journalist

Felicia Wong

President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute

Chris Hughes

Senior Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School and Co-Founder and Chair of the Economic Security Project

Dorian Warren

Co-President of Community Change and Community Change Action and Co-Founder of the Economic Security Project

Talmon Joseph Smith

New York Times Economics Reporter

Shabaz Ali

Comedian and Broadcaster

Sarah Meyers

Managing Director of the AI Now Institute

Pete Buttigieg

Secretary of Transportation

Natalie Foster

President and co-founder of the Economic Security Project

Nabil Ahmed

Oxfam Economic Justice Director

Lorella Praeli

Co-President of Community Change and Community Change Action

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

President of the Writers Guild of America East

Ian Madrigal

Monopoly Man

Jennifer Abruzzo

General Counsel at the National Labor Relations Board

Ganesh Sitaraman

Director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

Children’s Defense Fund and CDF Action Council President and CEO

Faiz Shakir

Founder and Executive Director of More Perfect Union

Elizabeth Kelly

Special Assistant to the President on the National Economic Council

Chase Strangio

ACLU Staff Attorney

Aisha Nyandoro

Springboard to Opportunities CEO

Mitch Landrieu

White House Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Cultural Critic, Sociologist, and Writer

Heather Boushey

Member of the Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist for the Invest in America Cabinet at The White House

Cindy Estrada

Strategic Adviser to AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler

Hope Wollensack

Executive Director, Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund

Anand Giridharadas

Journalist and Writer

Angela Garbes

Speaker and Author

Darrick Hamilton

Founding Director Of The Institute On Race, Power, And Political Economy At The New School

Brad Lander

New York City Comptroller

Dr. Eve L. Ewing

Creator In Residence, Writer, Scholar, And Cultural Organizer

Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger

Founders, Respair Production and Media

Josh Allen

Video

David Johnson

Video

Sean Sankalp Raju

Documentary Film

Jade Willliams

Mixed Media

Fantasía Ariel Graham

Painting

Matt Muse

Performance Art and Music

Anwulika Anigbo

Photography

Center for Employment Opportunities

Returning Strong: A Virtual Rally for Reentry Cash Assistance

Just Income GNV

Reentry: The Game of Coming Back to Life

The NM Economic Relief Working Group (ERWG)

Video Vignettes: NM GBI Pilot Project

Rooted School Foundation

The $50 Study

Springboard for the Arts

Artists Respond: People, Place, Prosperity

Laura Alexander and Oscar Valdés Viera

The Impact of Private Equity Roll-up Strategies on Competition

Brian Callachi and Marshall Steinbaum

The Effect of Buyer Power on Occupational Illness and Injuries at Upstream Suppliers

Loka Ashwood, Mary Hendrickson, Phil Howard, and Andy Pilny

Spiders in the Web: A Social Network Analysis of Dependency in U.S. Industrial Agriculture

Elettra Bietti, Jacquelene Mwangi, and Friso Bostoen

Shades of Decentralization: Decentralizing Centralizing and Re-Decentralizing Digital Infrastructures for a Global Democratic Public Sphere

Ari Ezra Waldman and Julie E. Cohen

Regulatory Managerialism and the Rule of Law

Vellah Kedogo Kigwiru and Zlatina Georgieva

Multinationals Economic Power and Inclusion in Feed to Poultry Value Chains in Africa

Peter Norlander

Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts

Frank Pasquale and Jay Varellas

New Policy Horizons for Quantitative Analysis

Simon Roberts and Sumayya Goga

Multinationals Economic Power and Inclusion in Feed to Poultry Value Chains in Africa

Madiha Zahrah Choksi and Ari Ezra Waldman

Misinformation Platform Power and Social Policy

Branden Adams

Miners’ Unions and the Coordination of the Coal Market

Ilan Strauss and Jangho Yang

Mergers and Acquisitions and Big Tech’s Innovation Capabilities: Evidence From Patents’ Concentration

Erik Peinert

Masking Protectionism as Free Trade: The Role of Antitrust

Erin McElroy

Landlord Tech Watch

Hiba Hafiz

Labor Monopsony and Geographic Inequality

Kevin Devereux and Blair Long

Labor Market Concentration Unionization and the Firm-size Wage Premium

Sonja Solomun

Environmental Racism and Monopoly Power in Algorithmically Mediated Work

Paul Ohm

Developing Better Remedies for Platform Harms

Shobita Parthasarathy

Concentrating Economic Power Through Epistemological Power: Analyzing Innovation Policy Institutions in the United States

Seeta Peña Gangadharan

Community Power Tech Power and Racial Surveillance Capitalism

Marita Freimane

Changing News Industry Dynamics: Regulation Financing and Media Independence

Chase Foster and Melike Arslan

Business Power and State Aid: Investment Subsidies in Comparative Perspective

Lenore Palladino

‘Bigness’ in the Electric Vehicle Industry: a Curse and a Blessing?

Robin Feldman

Assessing Race, Gender, and Income Disparities in Pharmaceutical Drug Access, Availability, and Pricing

Zach Y. Brown and Alexander MacKay

Antitrust Implications of Online Pricing Algorithms: Evidence From High-frequency Price Data

Richard R. John

A History of American Antimonopoly Thought

Fellows

Board of Directors

Natalie Foster

Chris Hughes

Aisha Nyandoro

Dorian Warren

Felicia Wong

Staff

Taylor Jo Isenberg

Sara Abdel Rahim

Leydy Abreu

Andrea Aguilar

Ethan Arbuthnot

Anna Aurilio

Chrissy Blitz

Adriane Brown

Michael Bryer

Becky Chao

Michael Conti

Cara Rose DeFabio

Andrea Diaz

Mary Durden

Jessica Evans

Hannah Gregor

Tesbih Habbal

Shafeka Hashash

Mana Kharrazi

Mike Konczal

Marta Kuersten Wolaver

Mónica V. Lazo

Erion Benjamin Malasi

Mona Masri

Lynnette Miranda

Layla Oghabian

Teri Olle

Harish I. Patel

Kat Phan

Jazmin Phillips

Kira Resnick

Adam Ruben

Sarah Saheb

Zoe Schlittenhardt

Jenna Severson

Lacey Slay

Chloe Stryker

Kelli Smith

Molly Tilghman

Suz Warshell

Experts

Dr. Victor Roy, MD, PhD

Dr. Eduardo Ochoa, Jr., MD

Morgan Miles

Dr. Zea Malawa, MD

Dr. Tresha A. Gibbs, MD

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Dr. Kira Bona, MD, MPH

Bria Bailey, MS, MTM

Shafeka Hashash

Ayanna Albertson-Gay

Brian Baez

Jessica “Ka” Burbank

Nessa Diosdado

Joshua Doss

Akilah Hughes

Michael Mezzatesta

Cara Nicole O’Malley

Max Read

John Russell

Jhumpa Battacharya

Teri Olle

Mónica V. Lazo

Mayor Darrell Steinberg

Libby Schaaf

Kristina Bas Hamilton

Adriana Ramos-Yamamoto

Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva

Assemblymember Isaac G. Bryan

Jose Cordon

Senator Dave Cortese

Mayor Martha Guerrero

Kimberly Lewis