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Policy Council

Humanity Forward’s Bipartisan Policy Council unifies policy experts with a common goal of highlighting bipartisan solutions for the good of the American people.

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    John Bailey

    Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Advisor to the Walton Family Foundation

    John Bailey is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and an advisor to the Walton Family Foundation. His experience has spanned government, philanthropy, and the private sector working on a range of issues including technology, immigration, COVID-19 response, the future of work and economic mobility. Bailey previously served as special assistant to the President for domestic policy at the White House, Deputy Policy Director to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and as Vice President for Policy for Governor Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education.

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    Patrick Brown

    Former Senior Policy Advisor to Congress – Joint Economic Committee

    Patrick Brown is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where his work focuses on supporting families as the cornerstone of a healthy and flourishing society. Brown has also served as Senior Policy Advisor to Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, where he published reports on child care affordability and education policy. He has written widely on the child tax credit and other family policy topics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, USA Today, The American Conservative, and other outlets.

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    Chris Griswold

    Policy Director at American Compass

    Griswold is the Policy Director at American Compass, an organization dedicated to restoring an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. Prior to his time at American Compass, Griswold was a Congressional staffer, most recently serving as a senior advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and legislative staff to Senator Marco Rubio.

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    Samuel Hammond

    Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy at the Niskanen Center

    Samuel Hammond is the Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy at the Niskanen Center. His commentary has been published in the Atlantic, the National Review, and the American Conservative. He previously worked as an economist for the Government of Canada specializing in rural economic development, and as a graduate research fellow for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research focuses on the effectiveness of cash transfers in alleviating poverty, and how free markets can be complemented by robust systems of social insurance.

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    Leah Hamilton

    Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute

    Leah Hamilton, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Appalachian State University, Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute and Faculty Affiliate at the Social Policy Institute of Washington University in St. Louis. She teaches social welfare policy and conducts research related to economic justice and basic income. Her work has been featured in multiple national publications including The Atlantic, Vice News, National Public Radio, Governing Magazine, Fast Company and Bloomberg View. She serves on the boards of ACLU of North Carolina and the Basic Income Earth Network.

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    Elaine Maag

    Principal Research Associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute

    Elaine Maag is a Principal Research Sssociate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where she studies income support programs for low-income families and children. Before joining Urban, Maag worked at the Internal Revenue Service and Government Accountability Office as a Presidential Management Fellow. She is a member of the Poverty, Tax, and Transfer Policies Research Network and has served on panels on Assured Income and Family and Medical Leave for the National Academies of Social Insurance.

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    Matt Zwolinski

    Director of the University of San Diego’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy

    Matt Zwolinski, PhD, is the Director of the University of San Diego’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy and co-director of USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy. He is the author of over forty academic articles on topics at the intersection of ethics, law and economics. He is also the author and editor of several books, including (with Miranda Fleischer) Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know, currently under contract with Oxford University Press.