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Charles Barnes

Account Executive

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Matt Barnes

Sales and Operations Manager

Matthew Chervenak

Founder and President

Jessica Friedman

Director, Marketing and Communications

Nick Harlan

Policy Analyst

Ani Harutyunyan

Scholar

King Laughlin

Director, Development

Leo Meyers

Account Executive

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J.D. Rackey

Director, Legislative Studies

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Casey Burgat

External Scholar

Robert Gmeiner

External Scholar

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Matt Jones

External Scholar

Tim LaPira

External Scholar

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Kenneth Lowande

External Scholar

Joseph Kochanek

External Scholar

Annelise Russell

External Scholar

Legislative Studies

Congressman Daniel Lipinski

Senior Advisor

Honorable Philip Kiko

Senior Advisor

Sandra Strokoff

Senior Advisor

Property, Markets & Trade

Mark Cohen

Mark Cohen

Senior Advisor

John Duffy

Senior Advisor

Walter Park

Senior Advisor

Matthew Chervenak

President and Chairman

Michael Hickey

Board Member

J. Eric McAndrew

Board Member

Stephany Yu

Chairman

Dr. Jonathan Zifferblatt

Board Member

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