Meet Our 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

Emily Carew

Digital Marketing Manager

Katherine De Chant

Editorial Manager

Matt Hughes

Director, Editorial and Narrative Strategy

Meredith MacKenzie de Silva

Managing Director, Media Relations

Brian Mandel

Events Director

Keesa McKoy

Digital Director

Anthony Thomas

Communications Associate

Aastha Uprety

Editorial Manager

Ariela Weinberger

Director, Media Relations and Internal Communications

Marie Avetria

Director of Foundation Relations

Dominique Brown-Sampayo

Grants Manager

Lauren Karagianis

Deputy Director of Development, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

Matthew Nowling

Donor Engagement Manager

Sehar Raziuddin

Managing Director of Development

Javier Reyes

Development Associate

Jessica Lei

Senior Finance Manager

Elijah Moore

Finance Manager

Shannon Smith

Vice President of Finance

Willie Vega

Controller

Perla Zabala

Finance Manager

Alan Barber

Managing Director, Partnerships and Government Relations

Tyler Bellstrom

Deputy Director Government Relations

Tahis Meza

Government Relations Associate

Lina Hunt

Associate, Student Programs

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

Manager, Mentorship Programs

Meta Knight-Nzongola

Senior Contracts Associate

Tiara Peele

Systems, Director

Eamon Ross

Systems Manager

Sophia Spriggs

Senior Contracts Associate

Eric Martinez-Valerio

Human Resources/Facility Services Associate

Claudia Porras

Senior Human Resources Associate

Bilal Baydoun

Director, Democratic Institutions

Lena Bilik

Program Manager

Alí R. Bustamante

Director, Worker Power and Economic Security

Oskar Dye-Furstenberg

Research Associate

Hannah Groch-Begley

Managing Director, Think Tank

Kristina Karlsson

Deputy Director, Climate Policy

Michael Madowitz

Principal Economist

Sunny Malhotra

Senior Research Associate, Industrial Policy and Trade

Stephen Nuñez

Director, Stratification Economics

Ira Regmi

Program Manager, Macroeconomic Analysis

Noa Rosinplotz

Research Associate

Shahrzad Shams

Deputy Director, Democratic Institutions

Todd N. Tucker

Director, Industrial Policy and Trade