Nonprofit Representatives Advise Obama Administration on Transition

November 18, 2008

Nonprofit Representatives Advise Obama Administration on Transition

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, which is in the process of preparing for a change of power on January 20, includes a number of representatives of nonprofit groups, foundations, and think tanks.

Most are members of “agency review teams” that are charged with examining particular government bodies and offering advice on policy, budgetary, and personnel matters. Members from the nonprofit world, and the agencies they will review, include:

Robert Beers, president, National Security Network. (Homeland Security Department)

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president, global development program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

Barbara Chow, director, education program, Hewlett Foundation. (Office of Management and Budget)

Bill Corr, executive director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. (Health and Human Services Department)

Stephen Crawford, deputy director, metropolitan policy program, Brookings Institution. (U.S. Postal Service and Postal Regulatory Commission)

Ivo Daalder, senior fellow, foreign policy, Brookings Institution. (National Security Council.)

Clark Kent Ervin, director, homeland security program, Aspen Institute. (Homeland Security Department)

Ralph Everett, president, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. (Commerce Department)

Alan H. Fleischmann, managing director, ImagineNations Group. (Inter-American Development Bank)

Michele Flourney, president, Center for a New American Security. (Defense Department)

Marilyn Golden, policy analyst, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. (National Council on Disability and U.S. Access Board)

David Hayes, senior fellow, World Wildlife Fund; senior fellow, Progressive Policy Institute. (Working group responsible for energy and natural-resources agencies)

Alan W. Houseman, executive director, Center for Law and Social Policy. (Legal Services Corporation)

Michele Jolin, senior fellow, Center for American Progress. (Council of Economic Advisers)

Deborah Jospin, nonprofit-strategy consultant and president, Daniel A. Dutko Memorial Foundation. (Corporation for National and Community Service)

Bruce Katz, director, metropolitan policy program, Brookings Institution. (Housing and Urban Development Department, Federal Housing Finance Board, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness)

Brad Kiley, vice president, finance and operations, Center for American Progress (on leave). (Office of Administration)

Jim Kohlenberger, executive director, Voice on the Net Coalition, and senior fellow, Benton Foundation. (National Science Foundation)

Nicole Lurie, director, Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, RAND Corporation. (Health and Human Services Department)

Amy Comstock Rick, chief executive, Parkinson’s Action Network. (Office of Government Ethics and Office of Special Counsel)

Mara Eve Rudman, senior fellow, Center for American Progress, Washington. (National Security Council)

Shirley Sagawa, nonprofit-strategy consultant and fellow, Center for American Progress. (Corporation for National and Community Service)

Phyllis Segal, vice president, Civic Ventures. (Federal Labor Relations Authority)

The full list of transition-team members is available on the president-elect’s Change.gov Web site.

— Suzanne Perry

Comments

“Clark Kent” Ervin—great choice to review Homeland Security! Hope he won’t have to quit his night job!

— smartgirl Nov 18, 03:32 PM #

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