About IWF > Staff

  • Michelle D. Bernard
    President and CEO

    Expertise: Campus, Crime, Justice and the Law, Economics and Political Thought, Education, Family, Culture and Community, Foreign Policy and International Relations, Governing and Elections, Health and Welfare, National Security, Women in Iraq
  • Stacy Chin
    Vice President of Operations and Administration

  • Erin Grant
    Vice President of Development and Programs

  • Glenda McDougal
    Vice President of Finance and Administration

  • Regina Truslow
    Executive Assistant to the President

Policy

  • Sandy Liddy Bourne
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment
  • Jennifer C. Braceras
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Federalism and Feminism
  • Charlotte Hays
    Senior Fellow

    Expertise: Family, Culture and Community, Governing and Elections, Work and Family Balance
  • Krista Kafer
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: School Choice: Charter Schools, Vouchers, Home Schooling, and Women for School Choice, The Boy Crisis
  • Halima Karzai
    Director of Foreign Policy and International Women's Issues

    Expertise: Foreign Policy and International Relations, National Security
  • Allison Kasic
    Director of The R. Gaull Silberman Center for Collegiate Studies

    Expertise: Campus, Economics and Political Thought, Family, Culture and Community, Governing and Elections
  • April Lassiter
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Marriage and Family Structure
  • Carrie L. Lukas
    Vice President for Policy and Economics

    Expertise: Campus, Economics and Political Thought, Education, Family, Culture and Community, Governing and Elections, Health and Welfare, Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment, School Choice: Charter Schools, Vouchers, Home Schooling, and Women for School Choice
  • Vicki Murray
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Education
  • Nina Owcharenko
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Health Care Reform
  • Christie Raniszewski Herrera


  • Solveig Singleton
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Information Technology
  • Princella Smith


    Expertise: Campus, Governing and Elections
  • Heather R. Higgins
    Chairman, Board of Directors

  • Amy Watson
    Senior Policy Analyst

    Expertise: Crime, Justice and the Law, Economics and Political Thought
  • Donna Wiesner Keene


    Expertise: Budget and Taxation, Economics and Political Thought, Education, Information Technology
  • Anne Trenolone


    Expertise: Economics and Political Thought, Foreign Policy and International Relations, Governing and Elections, National Security, Women in Iraq
  • Ana Carcani Rold
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Foreign Policy and International Relations
  • Sabrina Schaeffer
    Visiting Fellow

    Expertise: Budget and Taxation, Economics and Political Thought, Education, Family, Culture and Community, Governing and Elections

Communications