Chief Development Officer

Gina Eleane Wood is senior director of program development at the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization that aims to promote balanced policy making and encourages proactive advocacy. We FEATURE Wood in response to the continued government shutdown. She has worked as a nationally respected leader and a confidential senior advisor to the president and CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies on the conceptual framework and implementation strategy for new initiatives, partnerships, key stakeholder relationships, communications, research, policy analysis, and resource development.

Executive Director

Dana Edell, PhD is currently the executive director of SPARK Movement, a national activist movement working to end the sexualization of girls. We FEATURE Dana in honor of the International Day of the Girl, which falls on October 11th. With SPARK, she collaborates with a team of girl activists to create and launch actions nationwide. Dana’s activist and arts work with girls and young women has been the focus of articles in the New York Times, and New York Daily News, CNN.com and she has spoken as an expert on girls’ issues on ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, Fox News, and the BBC.

Author and Reproductive Justice Advocate

In response to a recent case in Nebraska that concluded that maturity is a determining factor in abortion rights, we FEATURE reproductive rights activist, Sarah Erdreich. Newsweek has identified Erdreich as a leading pro-choice activist, and Jezebel, Feministing, and the National Partnership for Women and Families have noted her incisive writings on abortion rights. She has worked for several prominent pro-choice organizations; been published in The Jewish Daily Forward’s Sisterhood blog, On The Issues, Lilith, and RH Reality Check; and authored the Women’s Media Center’s “Media Guide to Covering Reproductive Issues.”

Economist

In response to Janet Yellen's nomination for Head of the Federal Reserve, we SPOTLIGHT economist Monique Morrissey. Morrissey joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2006. She previously worked at the AFL-CIO Office of Investment and the Financial Markets Center. Her areas of interest include retirement security, executive compensation, the Federal Reserve, and financial markets.