Shelley A. Hearne

Managing Director
Pew Health Group

Shelley A. Hearne is the managing director of the Pew Health Group at The Pew Charitable Trusts and a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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John E. Morton

Managing Director
Pew Economic Policy Group

John E. Morton is managing director of the Pew Economic Policy Group at The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Economic Policy Group houses the Economic Mobility Project, an initiative seeking to broaden the current national debate on income inequality to include a more substantive focus on economic mobility and opportunity. The department also focuses on fiscal and budget policy and on highlighting the full extent of government’s engagement in the market economy.

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Susan K. Urahn

Managing Director
Pew Center on the States

As managing director of the Pew Center on the States, Susan Urahn leads efforts at The Pew Charitable Trusts to help states identify and implement policies that are fiscally sound,  provide a return on investment to taxpayers and, more than ever, help our nation tackle its toughest challenges.

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Michael G. Caudell-Feagan

Deputy Director
Pew Center on the States

Michael Caudell-Feagan manages the Pew Center on the States Government Performance unit, overseeing the work of the Government Performance Project, Elections Initiatives and the Public Safety Performance Project.

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Lee Crockett

Director, Federal Fisheries Policy Reform Project
Pew Environment Group

Lee Crockett joined the Pew Environment Group in June 2007 as the director of Federal Fisheries Policy. Lee works to establish policies to end overfishing and promote sustainable fishing under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) -- the federal law that governs ocean fish management. 

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Jane Danowitz

Senior Officer and Director, Mining Law Reform
Pew Environment Group

Jane Danowitz joined the Pew Environment Group in 2002 as a senior officer responsible for the U.S. public lands protection program, which seeks to preserve America’s wilderness areas and undeveloped national forests through federal legislative and regulatory protections.

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Marian A. Godfrey

Senior Director, Culture Initiatives
Pew Charitable Trusts

Marian Godfrey has an extensive background in nonprofit arts management, production, administration, fund raising, strategic planning and grantmaking. Currently the senior director of Culture Initiatives at The Pew Charitable Trusts, Marian oversees programs that support the arts and heritage in Philadelphia and special civic projects that benefit the region and the nation at large. Prior to arriving at Pew in 1989, Ms. Godfrey has worked for such organizations as Mabou Mines, Dance Theater Workshop, and La Jolla Playhouse. She produced film and video projects, including the feature-length film, “Dead End Kids: A Story of Nuclear Power,” which aired on public television nationwide.

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Douglas Hamilton

Deputy Director, Pew Economic Policy Group
Pew Economic Policy Group

Douglas Hamilton is deputy director of Pew’s Economic Policy Group. He joined Pew after a 24-year career at the Congressional Budget Office, where he served as deputy assistant director of CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis division. He received an MPP from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Joseph Kennedy

Senior Officer, Pew Economic Policy Group
Pew Economic Policy Group

Joseph Kennedy is a senior officer in Pew's Economic Policy Group. Previously, Joe served as chief economist at the Department of Commerce and senior economist for the Joint Economic Committee. He received a PhD from the George Washington University and a JD from the University of Minnesota.

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Erik Olson

Director, Food and Consumer Product Safety Programs
Pew Health Group

 Erik D. Olson is the director of Food and Consumer Product Safety Programs at The Pew Charitable Trusts.  He was deputy staff director and general counsel of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works until November 2008 and has 25 years of experience in environmental policy and consumer advocacy.  Erik is responsible for consumer product safety, including efforts to improve food safety, overhaul toxic chemical regulatory programs to better protect children and other vulnerable people and establish safeguards for emerging risks in consumer products.

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Marvin Phaup

Project Director, Federal Budget Reform Initiative
Pew Economic Policy Group

Marvin Phaup is project director of the Federal Budget Reform Initiative and is also a research scholar and professorial lecturer at George Washington University. He previously served as deputy assistant director in the Financial Studies group of the Congressional Budget Office’s Macroeconomic Analysis division and as a senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Marvin holds a PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Virginia.

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Charles Taylor

Project Director, Financial Reform Project
Pew Economic Policy Group

Charles Taylor is the Director of the Pew Financial Reform Project. Taylor was formerly the Director of Operational Risk at the Risk Management Association, a Managing Director at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, an Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and the Executive Director of The Group of Thirty. He holds a B.A. from Cambridge University, an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.

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Aaron Wernham

Project Director, Health Impact Project
Pew Health Group

Aaron Wernham, M.D., is the director of the Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts designed to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) and support the growth of the field in the United States.

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