Schwartz Fellows

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As a Schmidt Family Foundation fellow at the New America Foundation, Mark Hertsgaard is investigating and publicizing solutions to the linked challenges of climate change, food security, poverty and ecological agriculture.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Reniqua Allen will conduct a multimedia project on the erosion of the nation’s black middle class. Ms. Allen is a freelance journalist who has worked with Congressional Quarterly, Black Enterprise, Teen Vogue, Sirius XM, Fox News, MSNBC and PBS, often focusing on topics surrounding race and social justice. Her most recent project was working on the HBO documentary, Hot Coffee, a film about the tort reform movement. Previously, she worked for Bill Moyers on the newsmagazine, The Bill Moyers Journal.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Franklin Foer will write an intellectual history of American liberalism, a project that aims to explore the origins of the ideology's virtues and maladies. He is The New Republic's Editor At Large. Between 2006 and 2011, he ran the magazine. The Daily Beast named him one of America's "most influential liberal journalists." He has also been a staff writer for Slate. His international bestseller, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, has been translated into 27 languages.

Click on the photo to download a larger, print-quality image. As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Jacoby will focus on issues of immigration and social cohesion. She will remain president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of small business owners working to advance immigration reform. She is the author of Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration and editor of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American. She was the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page and a senior writer and justice editor for Newsweek.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Steve LeVine will write a book on the connection between the transformation of energy and shifts in geopolitical power. The book will focus on advances in battery technology. Mr. LeVine is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, where he writes The Oil and the Glory, a blog on the geopolitics of energy. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches energy security.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Liza Mundy will write a book exploring the global rise in the number of women who are primary earners in their households, and the impact this is having on the marriage market, dynamics within marriage, bargaining power in relationships, child well-being, single parenthood, the economy, and workplaces. She is on leave from The Washington Post, where she is a staff writer. She also contributes to Slate’s Double XX blog and has written for Slate, the Guardian, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Louie Palu will chronicle the economic integration of North America, especially the symbiotic relationship between rural communities in southern Mexico and U.S. cities that take in migrants from these communities. Mr. Palu is an award-winning photojournalist who has been covering the war in Afghanistan over the past five years and is well known for his work on the detention center in Guantanamo Bay.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Brigid Schulte will write a book on the struggle of working mothers to manage the scarcest of all resources – time – in balancing work, family and their own well-being. She will be on leave from the Washington Post, where she writes local enterprise stories and has been a staff writer since 1999. Ms. Schulte has won numerous writing and reporting awards and was part of the newspaper’s team covering the Virginia Tech massacre that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news journalism.

Click on the photo to download a larger, print-quality image. As a Schwartz Fellows at New America, Rosa Brooks studies and writes on the changing nature of warfare and changing role of the U.S. military. Ms. Brooks has recently served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and as Special Coordinator for Rule of Law and Humanitarian Policy in the Pentagon. She is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Brooks spent four years as an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and has been a frequent guest on MSNBC and BloggingheadsTV. Brooks received a B.A from Harvard, an M.A from Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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As a Schwartz Fellow at New America, Dana Goldstein will write a political history of the teaching profession in America. Ms. Goldstein is a contributing writer to The Daily Beast and is a Nation Institute Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow. Her writing on education, health, women's issues, and politics has appeared in The Daily Beast, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Washington Post, Business Week, Slate, and The New Republic. Ms. Goldstein is based in Brooklyn, NY and is a graduate of Brown University.