Suzanne Kahn
Managing Director, Research and Policy
As Managing Director of Research and Policy, Suzanne works with the Think Tank's issue area directors to develop critical research and policy to rebalance power in our society and economy.
As Managing Director of Research and Policy, Suzanne works with the Think Tank’s issue area directors to develop critical research and policy to rebalance power in our society and economy.
Previously, Suzanne was Roosevelt’s Director of Education, Jobs, and Worker Power and the Great Democracy Initiative. Her research and writing focus on building a network of robust public goods–for example public higher education–and labor organizations that together can empower workers to counter corporate power in the labor market and public sphere.
Prior to joining Roosevelt, Suzanne most recently worked as a research analyst at SEIU 32BJ, where she built a program to organize workers in new residential developments. Suzanne holds a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University and earned her B.A. from Yale University. Her forthcoming book, Divorce, American Style, won the American Society for Legal History’s Cromwell Dissertation Prize. As an undergraduate, in 2005, Suzanne was a founder of the Roosevelt Network.
Publications By The Author
Building Wealth for Generation Z: How Policy Can Help New Labor Market Entrants
January 26, 2021
By Suzanne Kahn
The Case for Progressive Stimulus: How Spending Now Can Drive Long-Term and Equitable Prosperity
December 16, 2020
By Suzanne Kahn
A True New Deal for Higher Education: How a Stimulus for Higher Ed Can Advance Progressive Policy Goals
December 16, 2020
By Suzanne Kahn, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Lisa Levenstein
How and Why to Empower Workers in the COVID-19 Response
April 24, 2020
By Sharon Block, Suzanne Kahn, Brishen Rogers, Benjamin I. Sachs
A Progressive Framework for Free College
December 18, 2019
By Suzanne Kahn
Latest By The Author
Three Reasons to Worry about the House Democrats’ New Student Debt Proposal
May 15, 2020
By Suzanne Kahn Julie Margetta Morgan
A Generational Crisis: Restructuring America’s Social Insurance System to Better Protect Young People
March 31, 2020
By Suzanne Kahn
The Gender Gap in College Scorecards and the Problem with 10-Year Earnings Data
November 23, 2015
By Suzanne Kahn