Meet Our Team

Felicia Wong

President and CEO

Lisa DeRoché

Chief People & Equity Officer

DeDe Dunevant

Senior Vice President, Communications

Katarina Duplessy

Chief Financial Officer

Ariel Evans

Executive Assistant and Board Liaison

Suzanne Kahn

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

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

Marie Avetria

Director of Foundation Relations

Dominique Brown-Sampayo

Grants Manager

Lauren Karagianis

Development Manager and Head of Membership, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

Matthew Nowling

Donor Engagement Manager

Javier Reyes

Development Associate

Danica Stewart Schreiner

Major Gifts Officer, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

Jessica Lei

Finance Manager

Elijah Moore

Finance Manager

Fharhan Rahman

Associate Director of Finance

Shannon Smith

Managing Director of Finance

Willie Vega

Controller

Perla Zabala

Finance Associate

Alan Barber

Managing Director, Partnerships

Tyler Bellstrom

Appointments Manager

Elly Kugler

Managing Director of Government Relations

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

Meta Knight-Nzongola

Senior Contract Associate

Tiara Peele

Systems, Director

Eamon Ross

Systems Manager

Sophia Spriggs

Senior Operations Associate

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

Bilal Baydoun

Director of Democratic Institutions

Lena Bilik

Program Manager

Alí R. Bustamante

Director, Worker Power and Economic Security

Emily DiVito

Deputy Director, Financial Regulation

Oskar Dye-Furstenberg

Research Associate

Raquel Greene

Senior Think Tank Associate

Hannah Groch-Begley

Director, Think Tank

Kristina Karlsson

Deputy Director, Climate Policy

Stephen Charles Nuñez

Director, Stratification Economics

Niko Lusiani

Director, Corporate Power

Michael Madowitz

Principal Economist

Sunny Malhotra

Senior Research Associate, Industrial Policy and Trade

Elizabeth Pancotti

Director, Special Initiatives

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