Alumni

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Jack Gorman was the deputy director of the Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) at New America. Mr. Gorman previously served as deputy director for the federal office for the governor of the state of California where he represented Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state before Congress and the executive branch on a portfolio of issues including labor, housing, agriculture and education.
 

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Rebecca Rabinowitz is a former research associate for the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program. She worked with with Senior Fellow Dr. Sheri Fink doing research on medical relief during disasters. As a research associate, she supported Dr. Fink's work, which focuses on triage and how medical resources are distributed during large scale disasters, such as during Hurricane Katrina.

As the Multimedia Producer and Audio Visual Technician, Hillary Esquina was a part of the busy Media & Communications department and the contact for management, coordination, and delivery of audio visual services for events, multimedia projects and media appearances. In September 2011, she left New America for a position with the National Wildlife Federation.
 

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Sabrina Siddiqui was New America's media relations manager from early 2011 through February 2012, when she left to serve as a Treasury Department spokeswoman for budget, fiscal and economic policy.

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As Program Coordinator at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget until autumn of 2011, Conor McKay formed content and outreach strategies that best promoted the work and ideas of the Committee. Mr. McKay specializes in project management and media relations, coupled with a background in fiscal and economic policy. Before joining CRFB, Mr. McKay served as the Chief of Staff for the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and as a press secretary with the Democratic Leadership Council.

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Hannah Sassaman is an organizer living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Until mid-2011, Wajahat Ali wass a South Asia Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a Research Consultant with the Pak Institute for Peace Studies in Islamabad. He is also the first Pakistani to have won The Asia Foundation’s William P. Fuller Fellowship in Conflict Resolution.

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Fadi Elsalameen was a Research Fellow with the New America Foundation's American Strategy Program. He is also director general of the Palestine Note and Diwan Palestine — Internet newspapers in English and Arabic about Palestine, Israel and the Middle East. Prior to joining Palestine Note, Elsalameen served as the director of Institutional Advancement at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) where he established the Development Department by securing the first foundation grant to the organization.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Wallace-Wells examined the shifting role of intellectuals in public policy.   He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.  Wallace-Wells has worked as a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer and as an editor at The Washington Monthly.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

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Rebecca Hamilton is a writer and human rights lawyer. She is a Special Correspondent on Sudan for the Washington Post, with funding from the Pulitzer Center. Her first book, Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide, which investigates the impact of Darfur advocacy on foreign policy, came out in February 2011. In the process of her research she has conducted over 120 interviews with those involved in Sudan policy within the UN, African Union, Arab League, and U.S.