Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress is a think tank founded in 2003 by John Podesta, as an organization dedicated to progressive ideas and action. ThinkProgress was a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action) that was active from 2005 to 2019.

Nationalize Election Policy

The Declaration for American Democracy heavily pushes the so-called "Freedom to Vote" act, which would nationalize the election process. The legislation was the "successor bill to the For the People Act", which "would strip the states of their electoral process autonomy and impose blanket rules, such as doing away with voter ID.". On October 14, 2021, the Declaration for American Democracy published an open letter to Chuck Schumer, Amy Klobuchar, Tim Kaine, Angus King, Joe Manchin, Jeff Merkley, Alex Padilla, Jon Tester, and Raphael Warnock signed by coalition members thanking them for their role in the "Freedom to Vote" legislation. Center for American Progress signed the letter.

White House Conference on Hunger

Alliance to End Hunger Logo

The Biden White House agreed to host a conference after a letter coordinated by the Alliance to End Hunger, who seeks to expand the role of government in food systems, was signed by multiple advocacy organizations on March 14, 2022.

The letter reads in part:

"...Food insecurity negatively impacts health, educational access, workforce readiness and business productivity. In addition, the COVID pandemic has affected food security in all corners of America, while also widening the disparities in food insecurity among individuals who are Black, Indigenous, Latino and other people of color. Food insecurity in America is a political choice and there is an opportunity to take transformative action.

"A new White House Conference would bring together a broad range of stakeholders to comprehensively address food, nutrition, hunger and health in America. The conference should include the expertise of government agencies, the anti-hunger community, individuals who have experienced hunger and poverty, businesses, academia, and grassroots, healthcare and faith-based organizations. Ideally, it would seek to create a real, concrete plan to eliminate hunger and food insecurity, address hunger’s root causes and ensure nutritious food is accessible to all."

Center for American Progress signed the letter.

Partner Organization of ProsperUS

Center for American Progress is listed as a "Partner Organization" of ProsperUS, a coalition of leftist groups formed during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic to demand massive government spending, including Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" spending bill.,,

Open Letter to the Biden-Harris Administration: Treating Disinformation as an Intersectional Threat

Center for American Progress signed a letter spearheaded by Accountable Tech headlined Open Letter to the Biden-Harris Administration: Treating Disinformation as an Intersectional Threat urging Joe Biden to "treat disinformation as a fundamental and intersectional threat" and proposes a range of supposed remedies to suppress speech on social media platforms, create and bolster federal government agencies to deal with "disinformation" and further to actively indoctrinate Americans, particularly in public schools.

Petition to 'enact emergency ban on tear gas before election'

Shut Down DC promoted a petition to enact an "emergency ban on tear gas before election." Supporting organizations included:

• Black Lives Matter DC
• Calvary Episcopal Church
• CASA
• Collective Action for Safe Spaces
• Center for American Progress Union
• DC Jobs With Justice
• Delicious Democracy
• Nonprofit Professional Employees Union
• Shut Down DC
• The DC Center
• The Democratic Coalition
• Women's March
• Occupation Free DC

Funding the Resistance

In March 2017, The Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Markay wrote about Media Matters as a "prominent liberal group" which is "running high-level campaigns opposing the Trump White House and Republican policies at the federal level."

"Democracy Alliance-backed organizations include some of the most prominent liberal groups currently running high-level campaigns opposing the Trump White House and Republican policies at the federal level.

"Those include the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy shop that has turned its 501(c)(4) arm into an anti-Trump “war room,” and Media Matters, a media-focused rapid response group that has recently retooled its efforts toward “fake news” and pro-Trump disinformation."

"Who we are"

According to the organization's website:

The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. We combine bold policy ideas with a modern communications platform to help shape the national debate, expose the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy, and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter.

CAP is designed to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement. Our ability to develop thoughtful policy proposals and engage in the war of ideas with conservatives is unique and effective.

Our policy experts cover a wide range of issue areas, and often work across disciplines to tackle complex, interrelated issues such as national security, energy, and climate change. This year, we are pushing to keep four leading issues at the center of the national debate:

• Restoring America's global leadership to make America more secure and build a better world.
• Seizing the energy opportunity to create a clean, innovation-led economy that supports a sustainable environment.
• Creating progressive growth that's robust and widely shared, and restoring economic opportunity for all.
• Delivering universal health care so that quality, affordable health services are available to all Americans.

Influence

Since the advent of the Obama administration CAP is often regarded as the most influential think tank in the US;

Through dialogue with leaders, thinkers, and citizens, we explore the vital issues facing America and the world. We develop a point of view and take a stand. We then build on that and develop bold new ideas.

We shape the national debate. We share our point of view with everyone who can put our ideas into practice and effect positive change. That means online, on campus, in the media, on the shop floor, in faith communities, and in the boardroom. Our progressive partners—including the CAP Action Fund—take our ideas to Congress and statehouses.'

Doctors for Obama

From Politico on May 4 2009:

Sen. Max Baucus and the Center for American Progress Action Fund are announcing a new group on a conference call later this morning: Doctors for America, which is a reincarnation of Doctors for Obama, an arm of the Obama campaign that boasted more than 10,000 members.

The question of patients' relationships with their doctors is always a flashpoint in debating changes to the health care system, so doctors are often particularly credible messengers.

Today they'll "release new reports detailing the depth and breadth of America's health care crisis and announce a new effort to amplify physicians' voices in support of health care reform," according to the advisory.'

Infiltrating the Obama administration

Mark Rudd was a leader of the '60s mass radical organisation Students for a Democratic Society and its terrorist splinter group-Weather Underground Organization.

Rudd claims that the Center for American Progress serves as a "government in waiting" for the Obama administration.

In 2007 Mark Rudd served on the board of the Movement for a Democratic Society, which is the parent body of Progressives for Obama, the leading leftist umbrella group behind Obama's presidential campaign.

Progressives for Obama was designed to unite radicals behind the Obama campaign, defend Obama from attack and "explain" Obama's positions to radicals who don't understand his subtle approach to socialism. Rudd was also a Progressives for Obama endorser.

Movement for a Democratic Society unites leaders of the four major Marxist organisations backing Obama-Democratic Socialists of America, Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

Movement for a Democratic Society also groups together many former leaders of both the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground Organization-several of who-Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Carl Davidson and Mike Klonsky know Barack Obama personally.

Rudd posted an article on the Movement for a Democratic Society aligned The Rag Blog, November 27 2008, just after the election, when many "progressives" were alarmed at some of Obama's "moderate" appointments.

Rudd's purpose was to calm his wavering radical friends. To assure them that Obama was on their side, but must work tactically to achieve his radical goals.

He also specifically urged his comrades to watch the Center for American Progress.

If you're anything like me, your inbox fills up daily with the cries and complaints of lefties. Just the mere mention of the names Hillary Clinton and Lawrence Summers alone conjure up a litany of horrendous right-wingers appointed to top level positions.

Betrayal is the name of the game.

But wait a second. Let's talk about a few things:

• Obama is a very strategic thinker. He knew precisely what it would take to get elected and didn't blow it...But he also knew that what he said had to basically play to the center to not be run over by the press, the Republicans, scare centrist and cross-over voters away. He made it.

So he has a narrow mandate for change, without any direction specified. What he's doing now is moving on the most popular issues -- the environment, health care, and the economy. He'll be progressive on the environment because that has broad popular support; health care will be extended to children, then made universal, but the medical, pharmaceutical, and insurance corporations will stay in place...the economic agenda will stress stimulation from the bottom sometimes and handouts to the top at other times. It will be pragmatic...On foreign policy and the wars and the use of the military there will be no change at all. That's what keeping Gates at the Pentagon and Clinton at State and not prosecuting the torturers is saying.

And never, never threaten the military budget. That will unite a huge majority of congress against him.

And I agree with this strategy. Anything else will court sure defeat. Move on the stuff you can to a small but significant extent, gain support and confidence. Leave the military alone because they're way too powerful. For now, until enough momentum is raised. By the second or third year of this recession, when stimulus is needed at the bottom, people may begin to discuss cutting the military budget if security is being increased through diplomacy and application of nascent international law.

• Obama plays basketball. I'm not much of an athlete, barely know the game, but one thing I do know is that you have to be able to look like you're doing one thing but do another. That's why all these conservative appointments are important: the strategy is feint to the right, move left. Any other strategy invites sure defeat. It would be stupid to do otherwise in this environment.

• Look to the second level appointments. There's a whole govt. in waiting that Podesta has at the Center for American Progress. They're mostly progressives, I'm told (except in military and foreign policy). Cheney was extremely effective at controlling policy by putting his people in at second-level positions.

Radical personnel

In 2008 Van Jones, later Obama "Green Jobs" Czar, was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Board of directors

• Carol Browner, Principle, The Albright Group
• Richard Leone, President, The Century Foundation
• Peter Lewis, Chairman, The Progressive Corporation
• Cheryl Mills, SVP for Operations and Administration, New York University
• Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
• John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
• Marion Sandler, Co-Chair of the Board and Co-CEO, Golden West Financial
• Hansjorg Wyss, Chairman and CEO, Synthes-Stratec

CAP Action Fund

• Peter Edelman, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Judith Feder, Dean, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute
• Broderick Johnson, Vice President of Federal Relations, BellSouth
• Ron Klain, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Revolution LLC
• Thomas Perez, Council member, Montgomery, MD County Council
• John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
• Hilary Rosen, Former Chairman and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America

CAP Trustees

• Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• John Adams, Past President and Founding Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State and Principal, The Albright Group
• Judith Areen, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center
• Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
• Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
• John Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Peter Edelman, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Judith Feder, Dean, Georgetown School of Public Policy
• Harvey Gantt, Former Mayor of Charlotte, NC
• Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• Bill Ivey, Director, Vanderbilt University Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy
• Broderick Johnson, Vice President of Federal Relations, BellSouth
• Bob Kerrey, Former Senator and President, New School University
• Ron Klain, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Revolution LLC
• Bill Lann Lee, Former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
• Dan Leeds, President and Managing Partner, Fulcrum Investments
• Judith Lichtman, Former President, National Partnership for Women and Families
• Enrique Moreno, Sole Practitioner, Law Offices of Enrique Moreno
• Philip Murphy, National Finance Chair, Democratic National Committee
• Tom Perez, Councilmember, Montgomery, MD County Council
• F. Noel Perry, Managing Director, Baccharis Capital Inc.
• Hilary Rosen, Former Chairman and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America
• Harley Shaiken, Professor, University of California at Berkeley
• Anna Deavere Smith, Professor, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
• Robert Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Ph.D., President, Chicago Theological Seminary
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
• Laura Tyson, Dean, London Business School
• Roderick von Lipsey, Vice President, Private Wealth Management, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Akila Weerapana, Assistant Professor, Economics, Wellesley College

"Ideas conference"

Democratic Party luminaries and 2020 presidential mentionables gathered May 2017 for an “ideas conference” organized by the Center for American Progress, the Democratic establishment’s premier think tank.

Its stated purpose was to focus not on “what could have been,” said CAP Vice President Winnie Stachelberg introducing the day, but on “new, fresh, bold, provocative ideas that can move us forward.”

Convened in a basement of Georgetown’s Four Season’s Hotel, the posh watering hole for Washington lobbyists, lawyers and visiting wealth, the conference quickly revealed how hard it is for Democrats to debate the future when Trump is taking all of the air out of the room.

Virtually every speaker dutifully invoked the theme of the day: resistance is not enough; Democrats must propose what they are for. Each then proceeded to rail at one Trump folly or another, calling on those assembled to join in defending what was achieved over the last eight years.

CAP President Neera Tanden lasted barely a minute before condemning “foreign actors” who seek to disrupt our elections and a “leader of the free world” who fires the man investigating him.

Bold, new ideas were scarce, but there was a vigorous competition on who had the best Trump putdown. Instead of the sign on Harry Truman’s desk that read “the buck stops here,” Cory Booker offered, Trump’s should read “the ruble stops here.”

“Do you get the feeling that if Bernie Madoff weren’t in prison,” Elizabeth Warren offered, “he’d be in charge of the SEC right now?” Rep. Maxine Waters topped them all by calling for Trump’s impeachment: “We don’t have to think impeachment is out of our reach,” she said. As for 2020, “We can’t wait that long,”

The first sessions of the day on the economy revealed that Bernie Sanders’ agenda is gaining ground among mainstream Democrats. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti described his success in passing a $15.00 minimum wage, a large infrastructure program, “wrap around” – pre-school, after school, and special tutoring – education reforms, and tuition free community college.

Senator Jeff Merkley, the sole Senator to support Sanders in 2016, indicted the trade and tax policies that give companies incentives to move jobs abroad, called for major investments in infrastructure, in the transition to renewable energy, and in education, including debt free college and new apprenticeship programs. Sanders’ call for Medicare for All is still off the table, however, with most focused on defending Obamacare against the Republican assault.

Even on economic reform, Trump hijacked the discussion. CAP released a new report for the conference – “Towards a Marshall Plan for America” – calling for “large scale permanent public employment and infrastructure investment program” – that would move towards a jobs guarantee for working age Americans. For CAP to call for a jobs guarantee – even though it dilutes it in the text – is a big, bold idea worthy of real attention.

Introducing Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s former economics advisor, to discuss it, CAP President Neera Tanden invited him to talk about Trump’s policies as well. Goolsbee invited people to read the report and focused his remarks on “the grubby reality” of Trump’s obscene tax plan.

Two presentations managed to offer bold ideas. Senator Elizabeth Warren took her swipes at Trump, but used her presentation to present a bigger argument for Democrats. Arguing that concentrated money and concentrated power were “corrupting our democracy,” Warren noted that “Trump did not invent these problems,” and called for sweeping reforms.

On concentrated money, she argued not simply for overturning Citizens United and moving to publicly financed elections, but for taking on the revolving door between Wall Street and giant companies and government, the “bought and paid for policy experts,” and the armies of lobbyists that distort our politics. On concentrated power, she argued for “picking up the anti-trust stick” to break up monopolies and the big banks, and revive competitive markets.

Investor and environmentalist Tom Steyer, one of the Democrats’ billionaires, provided a clear agenda for addressing catastrophic climate change, as well as savvy advice on the coalition needed to bring reform about.

Arguing Republicans are hopeless and business won’t lead, Steyer called for building a coalition around a green jobs agenda that offers jobs that pay a decent wage, reaching out to labor, people of color, and businesses that will gain in the transition in a bold plan to rebuild the country.

The foreign policy discussion, in contrast, was virtually bereft of new ideas or serious analysis. The US is mired in wars without end and without victory. Its war on terror has succeeded spreading violence and minting terrorists. Its “humanitarian intervention” in Libya has produced a failed state.

Its globalization strategy has been devastating to America’s working class. We’re facing rising tensions with both Russia and China. Both parties are pushing for spending more on the Pentagon that already consumes 40 percent of global military spending.

The clear and present danger of climate change is slighted, while we commit $1 trillion to a new generation of nuclear weapons. Surely progressives ought to be at least considering a fundamental reassessment.

Instead, Susan Rice, Obama’s former national security advisor, offered little but platitudes, calling for the US to sustain its “mantle of global leadership.” Instead of Trump’s vow to bomb the bleep out of ISIS, we should “use our full arsenal.” She called for a “balanced” approach, including strong defense (able to respond to “any threat at a moment’s notice”), skillful diplomacy, smart development and domestic strength.

On the foreign policy panel, Senator Chris Murphy, who is seen a leader of progressive foreign policy thinking, criticized Trump’s “foreign policy by improvisation,” called for a special prosecutor, and delivered a strong defense of diplomacy and the State Department.

Bizarrely, with the U.S. headed into its 16th year of war in Afghanistan, the only mention of the debacle was Adam Schiff invoking disgraced former General David Petraeus on the importance of US aid in building a competent Afghanistan government. Apparently pouring over $100 billion in that feckless effort is not enough.

The national press treated the event as a cattle show, an early audition of potential 2020 presidential contenders. This is both way premature and unfair. Kirstin Gillibrand (S-NY), Kamala Harris (S-Cal) and Terry McAuliffe (G-Va) delivered brief addresses on specific issues rather than stump speeches.

Gillibrand laid out her national paid family leave plan; Harris took apart Attorney General Session’s revival of the failed war on drugs; McAuliffe warned about gerrymandering and the importance of winning gubernatorial races before the 2020 census and reapportionment. Sen. Merkley was buried on the economics panel. Bernie Sanders wasn’t even invited.

The most interesting contrast was between Warren and Senator Cory Booker, both given star turns. Warren was full of fire and brimstone, while using her speech to put forth a clear analysis and reform agenda that pushed the limits of the Democratic debate.

Booker closed the conference with a passionate address, invoking the progressive movements that have transformed America, concluding that Democrats can’t merely be the “party of resistance,” but must “reaffirm” America’s “impossible dream.” Fittingly, it was a speech brutal on Trump, replete with good values, sound goals and uplifting oratory, and utterly devoid of ideas.

CAP Staff

As of 2009;

Executive Committee

• John Podesta, President and Chief Executive Officer
• Sarah Wartell, Executive VP
• Laura Nichols, Senior Fellow
• Jennifer Palmieri, Senior VP for Communications
• Winnie Stachelberg, Senior VP for External Affairs

Senior Staff

• Rudy deLeon, Senior VP for National Security and International Policy
• Debby Goldberg, Senior VP for Development
• David Halperin, Senior VP and Director, Campus Progress
• Andrew Sherry, Senior VP for Online Communications
• Cynthia Brown, VP for Education Policy
• Michael Ettlinger, VP for Economic Policy
• Debbie Fine, General Counsel
• Kate Gordon, VP for Energy Policy
• Steve Heibein, VP for Technology
• Angela Kelley, VP for Immigration Policy and Advocacy
• Ed Paisley, VP for Editorial
• Kaliope Poulianos, VP for Finance and Administration
• Anna Soellner, VP for Communications

Distinguished Senior Fellow

• Senator Tom Daschle

Fellows

• David Abromowitz
• Eric Alterman
• David Balto
• Matt Browne
• Louis Caldera
• Aaron Chatterji
• Maria Echaveste
• Elizabeth Edwards
• Lia Epperson
• Judith Feder
• Sam Fulwood III
• Henry Fernandez
• Mark Greenberg
• Nina Hachigian
• John Halpin
• Peter Harbage
• Bracken Hendricks
• Brian Katulis
• Tom Kenworthy
• Lawrence Korb
• Karen Kornbluh
• Andrew Light
• Scott Lilly
• Alice Madden
• Matt Miller
• Jonathan Moreno
• Ann O'Leary
• Jonathan Orszag
• Todd Park
• Lois Quam
• Joseph Romm
• Fred Rotondaro
• Lesley Russell
• Shirley Sagawa
• Richard Samans
• Shira Saperstein
• Bill Schulz
• Sunil Sharan
• Ruy Teixeira
• Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite
• Laura Tyson
• Daniel Weiss
• Christian Weller

Artist in Residence

• Anna Deavere Smith

Affiliated Scholars

• William Aceves
• Anne Alstott
• Alan Bersin
• Nicholas Bromell
• Aldo Civico
• Dalton Conley
• Michele Landis Dauber
• Martha Fineman
• Jacob Hacker
• Darrick Hamilton
• Doug Harris
• Lisa Heinzerling
• Obery Hendricks
• Robert Jones
• Mark Kleiman
• Jeff Madrick
• Kevin Mattson
• Thomas McGarity
• Suzanne Nossel
• Stephen Metcalf
• Ruth O'Brien
• Paul Pierson
• Jedediah Purdy
• William Rom
• Leon Sigal
• Ted Widmer
• Janelle Wong

California Office

• Shana Jenkins, Special Asst/Office Manager for California

Campus Progress

• Katie Andriulli, Communications and Outreach Manager
• Tommaso Boggia, Advocacy Associate
• Natasha Bowens, Advocacy Associate
• Annika Carlson, Operations and Development Manager
• Pedro de la Torre, Advocacy Senior Associate
• Arielle Fleisher, Events Associate
• Isabelle Gerard, Special Assistant to the Director of Campus Progress
• Shereen Hall, Online Communications Manager
• Rosanna Herrera, Events Manager
• Paula-Raye O'Sullivan, Events Associate
• Drew Seman, Online Communications Associate
• David Spett, Publications Associate
• Kay Steiger, Editor, CampusProgress.org
• Erica Williams, Deputy Director, and Policy and Advocacy Manager
• Vincent Villano, Events Associate

Communications

• Raúl Arce-Contreras, Press Assistant
• Benjamin Armbruster, Assistant Editor
• Drew Brookie, Press Secretary for Progressive Media
• Vanessa Cardenas, Ethnic Media Director
• Nate Carlile, Senior Reporter/Blogger
• Matt Corley, Assistant Editor
• Emma Diebold, Special Events Coordinator
• Matthew Duss, National Security Researcher/Blogger
• Suzi Emmerling, Press Aide
• Lee Fang, Researcher
• Pat Garofalo, Economics Researcher/Blogger
• Christy Harvey, Director of Strategic Communications
• Zaid Jilani, Reporter/Blogger
• Brad Johnson, Climate Researcher/Blogger
• Ivan Kander, Videographer/Editor
• Sara Langhinrichs, Special Assistant for MicCheck Radio
• Christine McDonough, Special Events Coordinator
• Paul Meyer, Senior Videographer and Editor
• Nicole Murphy, Special Assistant for Mic Check
• John Neurohr, Strategic Communications Manager
• Andrea Nill, Immigration Researcher/Blogger
• Andrea Purse, Director of Media Strategy
• Jason Rahlan, Press Aide
• Faiz Shakir, Research Director
• Amanda Terkel, Managing Editor Progress Report / Think Progress
• Marlene Cooper Vasilic, Director of Outreach and Special Events
• Igor Volsky, Health Care Researcher/Blogger
• Matthew Yglesias, Fellow
• Victor Zapanta, Researcher

Development & Strategic Planning

• Yasmin Abboud, Major Gifts Officer
• Emily Berman, Corporate Relations and Annual Events Manager
• Katie Dranoff, Special Assistant
• Anna Ekindjian, Director of Development
• Ali Fisher, Business Alliance Assistant
• Becky Webster, Development Associate

Domestic Policy

• Jessica Arons, Director of Women's Health and Rights Program
• Alexandra Cawthorne, Research Associate
• Robin Chait, Associate Director for Teacher Quality
• Karen Davenport, Director of Health Policy
• Sarah Dreier, Research Assistant
• Marshall Fitz, Director of Immigration Policy
• Ann Garcia, Special Assistant for Immigration Policy
• Melissa Lazarín, Associate Director of Education Policy
• Raegen Tabot Miller, Associate Director for Education Research
• Joy Moses, Policy Analyst, Poverty Program
• Isabel Owen, Research Assistant for Education Policy
• Reece Rushing, Director of Regulatory and Information Policy
• Sonia Sekhar, Special Assistant for Health Policy
• Valerie Shen, Special Assistant for Domestic Policy
• Sally Steenland, Senior Policy Advisor for Faith and Progressive Policy
• Ellen-Marie Whelan, Associate Director of Health Policy and Senior Health Policy Analyst

Economic Policy

• Heather Boushey, Senior Economist
• Sabina Dewan, Associate Director of International Economic Policy
• Andrew Jakabovics, Associate Director for Housing and Economics
• Nayla Kazzi, Research Assistant
• Michael Linden, Associate Director for Tax and Budget Policy
• Amanda Logan, Research Associate
• David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project
• David Min, Associate Director for Financial Markets Policy
• Luke Reidenbach, Special Assistant
• Lauren Smith, Research Assistant
• Louis Soares, Director of the Economic Mobility Program
• Karla Walter, Policy Analyst
• Liz Weiss, Policy Analyst

Energy Policy

• Jake Caldwell, Director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade & Energy
• Benjamin Goldstein, Policy Analyst
• Alexandra Kougentakis, Fellows Assistant
• Kari Manlove, Research Associate
• Sean Pool, Special Assistant
• Julian Wong, Senior Policy Analyst

Enough Project

• John Bagwell, Field Manager
• Zack Brisson, Web Producer
• Rebecca Brocato, Policy Assistant
• Molly Browning, Development and External Relations Manager
• Summer Buckley, Special Assistant
• Thomas Burton, Director of Online Communication
• Nanda Chitre, Communications Director
• Maggie Fick, Policy Assistant
• Laura Heaton, Writer/Editor
• Tsegaye Hidru, Webmaster
• Stella Kojo Kenyi, Sister Schools Campaign Coordinator
• Candice Knezevic, Congo Campaign Manager
• John Norris, Executive Director of Enough
• Robert Padavick, Director of Special Media Projects
• John Prendergast, Co-Founder
• Meghna Raj, Government Relations Associate
• Eileen White Read, Associate Director of Communications
• Jenny Russell, Advocacy Director
• Rebekah Seder, Receptionist/Administrative Assistant
• David Sullivan, Research Associate
• Colin Thomas-Jensen, Policy Adviser
• Nicole Vance, Press Assistant
• Sarina Virk, Congo Campaign Assistant

Executive

• Juliana Gendelman, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO
• Anne Kolker, Special Assistant
• Sarah Miller, Policy Advisor to the President and CEO

External Affairs

• Stephanie Grow, Outreach Systems Coordinator
• Adam Jentleson, Communications and Outreach Director
• Brian Komar, Director of Strategic Outreach and Alliances
• Chris Semenas, Constituent Outreach Assistant
• Rebecca Salay, Associate Director of Government Affairs
• Brian Smith, Email Marketing Assistant
• Rae Rawls, Email Marketing Manager
• Ilia Rodriguez, Director of Government Affairs
• Alan Rosenblatt, Associate Director for Online Advocacy
• Josh Rosenthal, Special Assistant
• Antonia Scatton, Associate Director of Constituent Relations
• Jack Swetland, Manager of Government Affairs

Fellows

• Michael Rugnetta, Research Assistant
• Anne Shoup, Research Associate

Legal

• Debbie Fine, General Counsel
• Alex DeMots, Legal Counsel
• Allison Lessne, Law Clerk
• Praveen Madhiraju, Legal Counsel

National Security

• Moran Banai, U.S. Editor of Middle East Bulletin
• Krisila Benson, Director of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
• Ian Bomberg, Middle East Progress Assistant
• Spencer Boyer, Director of International Law and Diplomacy
• Reuben Brigety, Director, Sustainable Security Program
• Samuel Charap, Associate Director for the Russia and Eurasia Program
• Winny Chen, Research Associate
• Laura Conley, Special Assistant
• Colin Cookman, Special Assistant
• Sean Duggan, Research Associate
• Andrew Grotto, Senior Analyst
• Ken Gude, Associate Director, International Rights & Responsibility
• Peter Juul, Research Associate
• Natalie Ondiak, Research Associate
• Andrew Sweet, Research Associate
• Caroline Wadhams, Senior Policy Analyst

Online Communications

• Christopher Bachmann, Unix Systems Administrator
• J R Boynton, Director of Web Products
• Kasie Coccaro, Web Producer and Project Manager
• George Estrada, Project Manager
• Annie Schutte, Managing Editor
• Megan Slack, Assistant Editor
• Robert Valencia, Assistant Editor
• Dan Wagener, Assistant Editor

External links

• Center for American Progress website
• 2004-2005 annual report of CAP

References

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