URBAN INSTITUTE - Key Persons


Amanda Cage

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • President and CEO, National Fund for Workforce Solutions

Arin Dube

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Beth Jacob - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications

Bill Dirksen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board

Blair Milo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Director of the Center for Talent & Opportunity at Sagamore Institute

Brigitte Valcin

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategy and Operations

Caleb Quakenbush

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Grantmaking and Programs

Dane Linn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Senior Vice President, Corporate Initiatives, Immigration, Business Roundtable

Darrick Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, the New School

David Autor Ford

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Rolf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • President Emeritus, SEIU 775

David Zammiello

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
William Spriggs Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and Professor of Economics, Howard University

Eduardo Padrón

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • President Emeritus, Miami Dade College

Elisabeth Jacobs

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director
  • Senior Fellow

Erika Zelaya

Job Titles:
  • Digital Communications Coordinator

Farzana Olla

Job Titles:
  • Project Administrator

Joe Peck

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Kate Bahn

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research

Megan Tackney

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategic Partnerships and Engagement

Michael Deich

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor and Institute Fellow

Michael R. Strain

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Director of Economic Policy Studies, Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute

Nicole Sherard-Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Executive Director of Workforce Development, City of Detroit

Oren Cass

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Executive Director, American Compass

Palak Shah

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Founding Director, NDWA Labs

Ramiro Cavazos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Tanya Wallace-Gobern

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Executive Director, National Black Worker Center Project

Theresa Sundin

Job Titles:
  • Policy Coordinator, Grants and Programs

Todd Greene

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director and Institute Fellow

Tracy Wareing-Evans

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, American Public Human Services Association

William J. Congdon

Job Titles:
  • Research Advisor and Senior Fellow

William Spriggs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Board
  • Chief Economist
  • CIO and Professor of Economics