Michael Ettlinger is the founding director of the Carsey School of Public Policy, joining at its inception in July 2014. Prior to Carsey, Michael held leadership positions at several Washington, DC, think-tanks and engaged in research, policy development and advocacy—primarily in the areas of economic, budget and tax policy. He served as the Senior Director for the Fiscal and Economic Policy Portfolio at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Vice President for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress for five years, and held positions with the Economic Policy Institute and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. From August to November of 2016 Michael served as the Director of Economic Planning for the Clinton-Kaine transition.
Michael is also an Affiliate Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire’s School of Law and a Faculty Fellow at the Law School’s Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Service. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from American University
Maximilian Hell is a Senior Data Scientist at Code for America. He holds a B.A. from Sciences Po Paris, an M.Sc. in sociology at Oxford, and a Ph.D. in sociology at Stanford.
Matthew Rognlie is an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University and a faculty research fellow at the NBER. Prior to that, he was a fellow in the international economics section of the Department of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests are in macroeconomics, inequality, and international finance. Rognlie holds a B.S. in economics and mathematics from Duke University and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Matt Markezich is a senior associate at Red Ventures. He previously was a research assistant at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He graduated from Kent State University with a B.A. in economics and geography.
Matthew Hersch is an associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is an historian of technology whose research examines Cold War-era aerospace, computer, and military technologies and their relationship to labor and popular culture. His first book, Inventing the American Astronaut (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), explores the rise and transformation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s human spaceflight program during the 1960s and 1970s, analyzing spacefarers as a new kind of engineer-manager in a society increasingly defined by technologies of automation and control. Hersch received his S.B. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a William Penn Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his A.M. and Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science.
Marshall Steinbaum is a former research economist at the Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Department of Economics in 2014 and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University in 2005.
Marianne Cooper is a sociologist at the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab. She is also an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.
Marianne was the lead researcher for Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. She is a contributor to LeanIn.org, a contributing writer to The Atlantic, and a LinkedIn influencer. She is an author of the 2016, 2017, and 2018 Lean In & McKinsey Women in the Workplace reports on the status of women in corporate America. She is an expert on gender, women’s leadership, diversity and inclusion, financial insecurity, and economic inequality.
At the Lab, she is a core team member of the Institute’s Voice & Influence program, which empowers men and women to excel professionally and provides them with the knowledge and tools to create organizations where all employees thrive. At the Institute, she is also involved in conducting research and designing tools and solutions to increase the number of women leaders in education, industry, and government. Her book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, examines how families are coping in an insecure age. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mark Cooper is director of research at the Consumer Federation of America, where has responsibility for energy, telecommunications, and economic policy analysis. He is a fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, an associated fellow at the Columbia University Institute on Tele-Information, and a fellow at The Donald McGannon Communications Center of Fordham University. Cooper has published several books and hundreds of articles and papers on energy, media, telecommunications, and high-technology industries. He has provided expert testimony more than 250 times for public interest clients including attorneys general, people’s counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts, and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the United States and Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright fellow.
Liz Hipple is senior policy analyst at the Joint Economic Committee. Previously, she was senior policy advisor at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, where she led Equitable Growth’s work to explore the relationship and connections between inequality and economic mobility. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she was manager for government affairs at the Economic Innovation Group, a research and advocacy organization focusing on geographic inequality. Additionally, she worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a policy advisor in the Office of Domestic Finance and as a special assistant in the Office of the Chief of Staff. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in political science and public policy.
Lily Batchelder is the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and an affiliated professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. She served as deputy director of the White House National Economic Council and deputy assistant to the President under President Obama (2014-2015), and majority chief tax counsel for the US Senate Committee on Finance (2010-2014). Batchelder’s scholarship and teaching focus on personal income taxes, business tax reform, wealth transfer taxes, retirement savings policy, and social insurance. She is on the board of Tax Analysts and the National Tax Association. Before joining NYU in 2005, Batchelder was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, director of community affairs for a New York state senator, and a client advocate for a small social services organization in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn. Batchelder received a B.A. in political science with honors and distinction from Stanford University, an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
