Message from NJPP:

Mary E. Forsberg, Interim President, has been with NJPP since 2001 after working 14 years in Trenton for the state Office of Legislative Services, the nonpartisan research arm of the state Legislature. There, she was involved with drafting the state budget, analyzing municipal aid programs and examining activities of the state Treasury Department.

Forsberg was graduated from Connecticut College with a BA in Asian History and has an MA from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, where she focused on public finance and budgeting issues. She also did post-graduate studies at the Wharton School of Finance at Penn.

Ray Castro, Senior Policy Analyst, joined NJPP in 2006 after more than 30 years with the New Jersey Department of Human Services. Prior to serving as the Director of the DHS Office of Legislative Services he held a number of posts, including Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, Policy Analyst, Program Development Specialist and Legislative Analyst. Castro was closely involved with state legislation relating to New Jersey FamilyCare, Medicaid and child welfare programs and helped develop the policy and legislative strategy that led to New Jersey's state Earned Income Tax Credit. He is an expert in national and state welfare-to work policies and legislation.

He received a BA in Psychology from the University of California-Berkeley and holds a Masters in Social Work with a specialization in policy from Rutgers University .

Norman J. Glickman, University Professor at Rutgers University is NJPP’s Thomas Hartmann Policy Fellow. At Rutgers, he carries out research and teaching in urban and public policy and studies the work of nonprofit organizations. From 1989 to 2000, Norm directed Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research. During that time, he and CUPR won awards for research and service from the United Nations, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the APA and other organizations. Glickman was awarded the Lindback Prize for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania and holds HUD’s Certificate of Special Achievement. He is the author of books on econometrics, foreign investment, urban development in Japan, the urban impacts of federal policies and numerous scholarly articles. Glickman also works with community development organizations throughout the country on issues of economic development and poverty.

Dr. Glickman is an economist, with degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to Rutgers, he taught at Penn and the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the first holder of the Hogg Professorship in Urban Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. NJPP’s Policy Fellow position is named for Thomas B. Hartmann, who served as a member of our Board of Trustees from the organization’s founding in 1997 until his death in November 2007. Tom was a professor of Journalism and Mass Media at Rutgers University’s Livingston College after helping to found the college.

Karen Lagerquist, Community Outreach Director, joined NJPP in 2008 after working as Policy Advocate for the Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment (CAHE). At the Coalition, she developed advocacy strategies to ensure affordable housing opportunities and open spaces for New Jersey’s urban, rural and suburban communities. Prior to CAHE, Karen was Director of Public Policy and Community Education for Family Promise, and also worked as a photojournalist in the Middle East in the 1990s.

Karen received her JD from Rutgers Law School-Newark and graduated with honors from St. John’s University.

Sarah Stecker became Policy Analyst at NJPP on a full-time basis in June 2002 after serving an internship for several months. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a BA in Political Science. At Rutgers she was a Phi Beta Kappa and received the Center for American Women and Politics Nancy H. Becker Award for Public Leadership.

Stecker received her Master of Public Administration degree, with policy specialization, from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. Prior to attending graduate school she served as District Representative for US Rep. Rush Holt and was on the Washington staff of US Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.

Anastasia R. Mann joined NJPP as a Policy Analyst in 2007. Before becoming a staff member, she wrote NJPP's report Flunking Out: New Jersey's Support for Higher Education Falls Short. Stacy received her BA from Clark University and has a PhD. from Northwestern University in U.S. History with a focus on social policy. Her dissertation, "All for One, but Most for Some," examined how the push for veterans’ rights during World War II undercut the movement for universal security and, as often as not, drew arbitrary distinctions among groups of hardworking Americans.

Stacy began her postgraduate career at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City and has taught undergraduates at Northwestern and Princeton University. She is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History (Routledge, 2006).

Naomi Mueller Bressler joined NJPP as a Policy Analyst in June 2008, after graduating with a Master of Public Policy from Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy. While at Rutgers, Naomi worked as an intern with the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. Naomi was also a Raimondo fellow with the Eagleton Institute for Politics and was involved with several research projects while at school, including one that studied campaign finance reform in New Jersey and another that looked at the consolidation of municipal governments in the state.

Before attending graduate school, Naomi worked as a newspaper reporter for seven years, including nearly six years at New Jersey's Asbury Park Press. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the University of Florida.

Jon Shure: Founder and President, 1997-2009

Kate Atkins
Executive Director, Garden State Alliance for a New Economy (GANE)

John Atlas
President, National Housing Institute

Timothy Carden
Founding Partner, Public Private Strategy Group

Henry A. Coleman
Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

J. Kelly Conklin
Partner, Foley-Waite Associates Architectural Woodworking

Debby D'Arcangelo
Community activist

Amy Goldsmith
Executive Director, New Jersey Environmental Federation

Herbert Greenberg
President and CEO, Caliper Human Strategies

Rona Parker
Media communications consultant

Bruce S. Rosen
Attorney, McCusker, Anselmi, Rosen and Carvelli

Richard V. Sinding
Senior Communications Consultant, New Jersey Future

Deborah Spitalnik
Executive Director, Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Diane Sterner
Executive Director, Housing & Community Development Network of New Jersey

Gerald R. Stockman
Former State Senator; Attorney, Kalavruzos, Mumola and Hartman

Irwin S. Stoolmacher
President, Stoolmacher Consulting Group

Susie N. Wilson
Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Answer, Rutgers University Center for Applied Psychology

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January 2009

TAX REFORM

WORK & WAGES

BUDGET & FISCAL POLICY

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VOTING & GOVT REFORM