People Leadership Staff Board Senior Fellows All All A-F G-M N-S T-Z Christine Alanis Finance and Operations Associate Julia Austin Deputy Director of Communications Aneesha Badrinarayan Director of State Performance Assessment Initiatives Jessica Barajas Research and Policy Associate Jennifer A. Bland Senior Researcher Dion Burns Senior Researcher Angela Button Executive Assistant Desiree Carver-Thomas Researcher and Policy Analyst 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