Caleb Crowder is a Media Relations Associate at the Institute for Policy Studies. He handles outreach for OtherWords, media monitoring, and communications for IPS. He helps build out pitching strategies for all OtherWords content, and oversees relationship building...
Alliyah is the Outreach Coordinator for the National Priorities Project, serving as project manager for growing collaborations with immigrant rights organizations and movements against climate change. Largely molded by her own diaspora, Alliyah is a first-generation...
Taneya Garcia is the 2022-2023 New Mexico Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies with a focus on the Poor Peoples’ Campaign. Being born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised on Pueblo of Santa Ana and Pueblo of Acoma reservations, has influenced her passion for...
Ashley Sheffield is the Executive Assistant for both the Executive Director, Tope Folarin, and the Deputy Director, Kathleen Gaspard. She graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in Political Science and minors in International Studies and Women’s, Gender...
Bella DeVaan is the Program Associate for Inequality.org and a member of its Charity Reform Initiative. She has worked with the Inequality.org team since she was a Next Leader intern in the summer of 2021. Previously, DeVaan wrote and researched policy for labor and...
Rebekah Entralgo is the managing editor of the IPS Inequality.org website and newsletter. Previously she covered immigration, labor and tax policy as a reporter at ThinkProgress and later led communications and media strategy at Freedom for Immigrants, a national...
Omar is a researcher for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He graduated from the University ofMassachusetts Boston with a B.A. in Political Science and holds a Masters in International Relations from the American University in Cairo. His thesis focused on...
Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military spending. He is particularly interested in examining how militarized U.S. domestic and foreign policy interacts with efforts to address...
Lauren Kojola is the Operations and Finance Assistant at Institute for Policy Studies. She graduated from University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in Sociology. Her honors thesis explored social movement coalitions between labor unions and LGBTQ+ rights...
As the Social Media Strategist and Graphic Designer, Sarah works on graphic design, social media, and communications for the Institute for Policy Studies. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in graphic design in 2018 and spent much of her...
Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at IPS. He researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Khury graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts, after completing a dissertation that focused on...
Robin was born to a military family, and has spent her life moving around the East Coast. She graduated from Roberts Wesleyan College in 2013 with a B.A. in Religion and Philosophy. Robin has previously worked as a Canvass Director with the Fund for Equality, where...
Lindsay Koshgarian is the Program Director of the National Priorities Project, where she oversees NationalPriorities.org. Lindsay’s work on the federal budget includes analysis of the federal budget process and politics, military spending, and specifically how federal...
Basav Sen joined the Institute for Policy Studies as the Climate Justice Project Director in February 2017. His work focuses on climate solutions at the national, state, and local level that address racial, economic, gender and other forms of inequality. Prior to...
Olivia Alperstein is the Deputy Communications Director at the Institute for Policy Studies. She works to advance bold policies and ideas and challenge unjust policies through strategic communications on issues impacting human health and survival. She believes that...
