National Advisory Board
Members of the NPC’s National Advisory Board represent a diverse set of senior researchers, policy analysts, and policymakers. The National Advisory Board provides broad input on our research agenda and helps shape the strategic direction of the NPC.
Eloise Anderson, President, Job Wave America
Gordon Berlin, President, MDRC
Douglas Besharov, Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs and Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies, The American Enterprise Institute
Maria Cancian, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Public Affairs and School of Social Work; Director, Institute for Research on Poverty
Greg Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy; Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Susan Golonka, Program Director, Welfare Reform, National Governors Association Social, Economic, & Workforce Programs Division.
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Senior Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Sara McLanahan, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School
Ronald Mincy, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Columbia University, School of Social Work
Katherine Newman, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Melvin Oliver, Professor and Dean of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark V. Pauly, Bendheim Professor; Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, Insurance and Risk Management, and Economics; Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
LaDonna Pavetti, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research
With Don Oellerich, Deputy to the Chief Economist and Senior Advisor, ASPE.
Don Winstead, Deputy Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families.