Executive Team

Elizabeth Wilkins
President and CEO

Felicia Wong
Principal

Lisa DeRoché
Chief People & Equity Officer

DeDe Dunevant
Senior Vice President, Communications

Katarina Duplessy
Chief Financial Officer
Ariel Evans
Senior Executive Assistant and Board Liaison

Suzanne Kahn
Senior Vice President, Think Tank

Juliette Kang Stableski
Chief Development Officer

Katie Kirchner
Vice President, Field-Building Programs

Ilona Kramer
Chief Operating Officer
Communications

Emily Carew
Digital Marketing Manager

Katherine De Chant
Editorial Manager

Matt Hughes
Director, Editorial and Narrative Strategy

Anthony Thomas
Communications Associate

Brian Mandel
Events Director

Keesa McKoy
Digital Director

Meredith MacKenzie de Silva
Managing Director, Media Relations

Aastha Uprety
Editorial Manager

Ariela Weinberger
Deputy Director, Media Strategies and Internal Communications
Development

Marie Avetria
Director of Foundation Relations

Dominique Brown-Sampayo
Grants Manager

Lauren Karagianis
Deputy Director and Head of Membership, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

Matthew Nowling
Donor Engagement Manager

Sehar Raziuddin
Managing Director of Development

Javier Reyes
Development Associate
Finance
Jessica Lei
Senior Finance Manager

Elijah Moore
Finance Manager

Shannon Smith
Vice President of Finance
Willie Vega
Controller

Perla Zabala
Finance Associate
Government Relations
Network

Lina Hunt
Student Program Associate

Robert-Thomas Jones
Senior Manager, Training and Field

Eric A. Paul
Deputy Director, Roosevelt Network

Jeanne Tilley
Deputy Director, Alumni Programs

Alex Trefftz
Senior Manager, External Relations

Elijah Wilson
Senior Program Associate, Roosevelt Network
Systems and Operations
People

Sonia Ares
Director of Human Resources

Compton DaSilva
Senior People and Culture Manager
Eric Martinez-Valerio
Human Resources/Facility Services Associate

Claudia Porras
Senior Human Resources Associate
Think Tank

Bilal Baydoun
Director of Democratic Institutions

Lena Bilik
Program Manager

Alí R. Bustamante
Director, Worker Power and Economic Security

Emily DiVito
Director Finance, Corporate Regulation, and Consumer Protection
Oskar Dye-Furstenberg
Research Associate

Raquel Greene
Senior Think Tank Associate

Hannah Groch-Begley
Director, Think Tank

Kristina Karlsson
Deputy Director, Climate Policy

Stephen Nuñez
Director, Stratification Economics

Michael Madowitz
Principal Economist

Sunny Malhotra
Senior Research Associate, Industrial Policy and Trade

Ira Regmi
Program Manager, Macroeconomic Analysis
Noa Rosinplotz
Research Associate

Shahrzad Shams
Senior Program Manager, Race and Democracy

Todd N. Tucker
Director, Industrial Policy and Trade