Donald Kimelman

Managing Director
Information Initiatives and the Philadelphia Program

Don Kimelman manages Pew's information initiatives, which are largely carried out by the internationally renowned Pew Research Center. The research center, based in Washington DC, produces timely reports on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It takes no positions on policy issues. In addition, Mr. Kimelman oversees the Philadelphia Program, which includes Pew’s Culture program, its Philadelphia-based Civic Initiatives, the Pew Fund for Health and Human Services and the Philadelphia Research Initiative, which produces timely research on key issues facing the city.

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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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Holly Binns

Director, Southeast and U.S. Caribbean Fish Conservation Campaign
Pew Environment Group

Holly Binns joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as manager of efforts to protect ocean life and end overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

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Nick Bourke

Director, Safe Credit Cards Project; Director, Safe Small Dollar Loans Research Project
Pew Health Group

Nick Bourke is director of both the Safe Credit Cards Project and the Safe Small Dollar Loans Research Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Allan Coukell

Director, Medical Programs
Pew Health Group

Allan Coukell is a pharmacist and former health reporter. He directs the Pew Prescription Project, a drug-safety initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts to promote consumer safety through reforms in the approval, manufacture and marketing of prescription drugs.

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Erin Currier

Project Manager, Economic Mobility Project
Pew Charitable Trusts

Erin Currier is the project manager for the Economic Mobility Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts. Currier works with top experts in the field and oversees the project team on its comprehensive research agenda and ensures it is understandable to a variety of audiences, including policy makers and the public.

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Jane Danowitz

Director, U.S. Public Lands Program
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 legislation and regulations.

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Larry Eichel

Project Director
Philadelphia Research Initiative

Larry Eichel is the project director of the Philadelphia Research Initiative at The Pew Charitable Trusts. The initiative provides timely, impartial research and analysis on key issues facing Philadelphia for the benefit of the city’s citizens and leaders. 

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Adam Gelb

Director, Public Safety Performance Project
Pew Center on the States

Adam Gelb directs the Public Safety Performance Project, which helps states advance fiscally sound, data-driven sentencing and corrections policies that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs.

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Michelle Grady

Director, Marine & Western Australia, Outback Australia Program
Pew Environment Group

Michelle Grady joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as manager of the Australia Program. Grady has worked for 18 years as a conservation advocate at the local, national and international levels; a managing director of nonprofit organizations; and campaign manager and senior policy adviser to government.

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Marilyn Heiman

Director, U.S. Arctic Program
Pew Environment Group

Marilyn Heiman joined the Pew Environment Group in January 2009 as director of the U.S. Arctic Program, which works to protect the U.S. Arctic Ocean and its marine life from rapid industrialization made possible by the warming climate and the melting ice cap.

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Kil Huh

Director, Research
Pew Center on the States

Kil Huh manages the states’ fiscal research agenda in the Pew Center on the States’ Research and Information unit, and he is leading the Center’s new project on states’ fiscal health. He has overseen project teams of researchers, policy analysts, journalists and consultants to conceptualize, design and implement research and analysis across 50 states that inform state policy-focused efforts on a wide range of issues, including state tax systems, retirement benefits, mortgage lending and state elections administration.

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Andrea Kavanagh

Director, Protecting the Deep Sea Campaign
Pew Environment Group

Andrea Kavanagh is Director of the Protecting the Deep Sea Campaign, a project dedicated to stopping the destructive practice of bottom trawling.

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Andrew Kohut

President
Pew Research Center

Andrew Kohut is the president of the Pew Research Center. He also acts as director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (formerly the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press) and the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

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Luis Lugo

Director
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

 Luis E. Lugo became the director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in January 2004.  Prior to joining the Pew Forum, he served as the director of the Religion program at The Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, a position he held for seven years.

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Michele Mariani Vaughn

Manager, Research and Information
Pew Center on the States

Michele Mariani Vaughn manages research and journalism projects, concentrating on issues related to states’ fiscal health and economic growth. She came to Pew from Builder magazine, where she directed coverage of the residential construction and real estate industries. Prior to joining Builder, she spent several years as a senior special project reporter at Governing magazine. She has co-authored two editions of Governing States and Localities, an award-winning introductory college textbook on state and local government. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master in public policy degree from George Mason University.

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Jay Nelson

Director, Global Ocean Legacy
Pew Environment Group

Jay Nelson joined the Pew Environment Group in 2006 as director of the Global Ocean Legacy project, which works to create large no-take marine reserves around the world.

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Erik Olson

Director of Food Programs
Pew Health Group

As director of food programs, Erik Olson works to limit the impact of foodborne illnesses, assess the risks associated with chemical additives in food, and improve the healthfulness of what kids are eating at school.

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Ken Rait

Senior Officer, Campaign for America's Wilderness
Pew Environment Group

Ken Rait joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 as senior officer for the Campaign for America’s Wilderness. Rait is the former director of the Heritage Forests Campaign, an initiative that successfully advocated for the conservation of nearly 60 million acres of roadless, wild national forestlands.

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Laura Rogers

Project Director, Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming
Pew Health Group

Laura Rogers has nearly 20 years experience in advocacy, public relations, crisis communications, marketing, brand management and fundraising. She serves as the Project Director for Pew Charitable Trusts’ campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming.

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Gregory Rowe

Director, Culture Initiatives and Deputy Director, The Philadelphia Program
Pew Charitable Trusts

Gregory Rowe directs Pew’s Culture program, which includes the Philadelphia Cultural Leadership Program, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, special projects such as the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s program Engage 2020 and the Cultural Data Project, an online data collection and dissemination tool that streamlines grant applications and provides longitudinal data for policy and program evaluation purposes. Since 1997 he has managed Pew’s efforts to encourage individuals and institutions in southeastern Pennsylvania to achieve programmatic excellence, improve management practices and build strong connections to their audiences and constituents. He has experience in strategic and business planning, financial management, program development and evaluation, governance, fund-raising and marketing.

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Ingrid Schroeder

Director, Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative
Pew Economic Policy Group

Ingrid Schroeder is the director of the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative. Prior to Pew, Ingrid was a Senior Executive Service branch chief at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Legislative Reference Division.

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Karen Steuer

Deputy Director, Government Relations
Pew Environment Group

Karen Steuer joined Pew in 2008 as director of government relations for the Pew Environment Group.

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Paul Taylor

Executive Vice President
Pew Research Center

Paul Taylor is the executive vice president of the Pew Research Center, and serves as the director of the center's Social and Demographic Trends project and director of the Pew Hispanic Center. From 1996 through 2003, he served as president and board chairman of the Alliance for Better Campaigns.

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Neville Vakharia

Director, Cultural Data Project
Pew Charitable Trusts

Neville Vakharia directs the Cultural Data Project, a Web-based data collection, management and reporting tool created to allow cultural organizations to benchmark results and streamline the grants application process, inform grantmaking strategies, and provide a powerful state-by-state tool for cultural policy research and analysis. An emerging national model, the Cultural Data Project is used by thousands of cultural organizations and more than 100 funders throughout the country, with continued growth each year. On behalf of Pew and as the project’s administrator, Neville oversees the operations and strategic expansion of the initiative, including the cultivation of new partners, creation of training programs, coordination of research activities and technical development.

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Tom Wathen

Deputy Director, Lands, U.S. and Canadian Oceans and Ocean Science
Pew Environment Group

Tom Wathen joined the Pew Environment Group in June 2008 as a deputy director, managing programs in North American ocean conservation, wilderness protection and marine science.

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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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Robert Zahradnik

Director, Research
Pew Center on the States

Robert Zahradnik manages the states’ economic growth research agenda in the Pew Center on the States’ research and information unit. Before joining Pew, he worked for the chief financial officer of the District of Columbia as a manager in the Office of Budget and Planning and then as director of research in the Office of Revenue Analysis. In the latter position, he managed the office’s research agenda that covered tax, budget and economic policies and processes impacting the District of Columbia. He was also a senior policy analyst with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, DC. At the Center, he was on the staff of the State Fiscal Project and his work focused on state budget and tax issues.

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