People Leadership Staff Board Senior Fellows All All A-F G-M N-S T-Z Christine Alanis Finance and Operations Associate Leslie Arroyo Office Manager Julia Austin Deputy Director of Communications Aneesha Badrinarayan Director of State Performance Assessment Initiatives Jessica Barajas Research and Policy Associate Melissa Bellin Senior Policy Advisor Jennifer A. Bland Senior Researcher Dion Burns Senior Researcher Angela Button Executive Assistant Desiree Carver-Thomas Researcher and Policy Analyst Roby Chatterji Senior Policy Advisor Linda Darling-Hammond President and CEO Jennifer DePaoli Senior Researcher Michael A. DiNapoli Jr. Deputy Director of Federal Policy Vanessa Edwards Human Resource Generalist Daniel Espinoza Researcher and Policy Advisor Siobhan Flynn Grants and Contracts Manager