Advisory Panel Members
Laurie Ekstrand, Ph.D.
Former Director, Health Care issues, and Former Director, Justice Issues
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D.
Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Principal Investigator and Director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention
Denise Gottfredson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
University of Maryland
Jonathan Crane, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute
Former Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Albert Gore
Dan Levy, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Public Policy, and Faculty Chair of the Master in Public Administration (MPA) Programs
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Ron Haskins, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Former Senior Advisor for Welfare Policy to President George W. Bush
Former Majority Staff Director, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means,
U.S. House of Representatives
Larry Orr, Ph.D.
Former Chief Economist, Abt Associates Inc.
Howard Rolston, Ph.D.
Principal Associate, Abt Associates, and Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution
Former Director of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)