Maria Shriver is a mother of four, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer, a six-time New York Times best-selling author, and an NBC News Special Anchor covering the shifting roles, emerging power and evolving needs of women in modern life. Since 2009, Shriver has produced a groundbreaking series of Shriver reports that chronicle and explore seismic shifts in the American culture and society affecting women today. Shriver was California’s first lady from 2003 to 2010 and, during that time, she spearheaded what became the nation’s premier forum for women, The Women’s Conference. Shriver’s work is driven by her belief that all of us have the ability to be what she calls Architects of Change—people who see a problem in their own life or the community around them, then step out of their comfort zone and do what it takes to create the solution.
Neera Tanden is the President of the Center for American Progress. Tanden previously was senior advisor for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, advising Secretary Sebelius and working on President Obama’s health reform team to develop and pass the Affordable Care Act. Prior to that, Tanden was the Director of Domestic Policy for the Obama-Biden campaign, managing all domestic policy proposals. She had served as Policy Director for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and Associate Director for Domestic Policy and Senior Advisor to the First Lady in the Clinton administration. She received her bachelor of science from UCLA and her law degree from Yale Law School.
Karen Skelton is the President of Skelton Strategies and has been CEO and Editor-in-Chief to all three Shriver reports. Skelton is an award-winning political strategist, lawyer, and author who has managed some of the most complex projects in the nation for Presidents, Vice Presidents, Governors, CEOs, Foundations, moms, and families. After graduating with a master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley Law School, Skelton spent about a decade in Washington, D.C., working in the Clinton/Gore Administration, and another decade managing a national public affairs firm, building it from scratch into a multimillion-dollar business. For seven years she was the Co-Executive Producer of Maria Shriver’s The Women’s Conference. Skelton serves on the Advisory Committee of the Public Policy Institute of California and on the Boards of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and the Anthony M. Kennedy Federal Judicial Learning Center.
Olivia Morgan has been at the creative edge of government, public policy, and political communications throughout her career. This is the second Shriver Report on which she has served as Managing Editor. She is president of a politicultural communications firm, OM Strategies. Morgan previously launched and grew a bi-coastal, multimillion-dollar communications and public affairs consulting practice, where she managed projects designed to shape public policy debates and aid the development of nonprofit organizations. Morgan served as the Director of Federal Relations for California under Gov. Gray Davis, and has been a spokesperson for elected leaders at national and state levels. Morgan is honored to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, on the board of the New England Center for Children, and the National Leadership Council of Polaris Project’s Vision 2020.
Daniella Gibbs Léger is the Senior Vice President for American Values & New Communities at the Center for American Progress, where her work focuses on the intersection of politics, race, demographic change, religion, and values. Prior to CAP, Gibbs Léger served as a special assistant to the president and director of message events in the Obama administration. Gibbs Léger was previously the Vice President for Communications at CAP, where she specialized in domestic and economic policy, as well as overall communications strategy. She has also been the deputy director of communications at the Democratic National Committee, where she began as communications director for the Women’s Vote Center, and was a regional media director during the 2004 presidential cycle. Prior to that, Gibbs Léger was with the National Newspaper Publishers Association and Sony Music. She holds a degree in government and a minor in sociology from the University of Virginia.
Lauren Vicary is the Vice President for Editorial at the Center for American Progress, where she manages the editorial, art, and video teams. A veteran political journalist and editor, Vicary has launched numerous properties for several news organizations, including Bloomberg’s politics and elections websites, and Political Capital newsletter and blog. She was an editor at PoliticsDaily.com as well as the political editor at NBCNews.com, where she launched their politics and elections websites. Vicary began her tenure in Washington, D.C., at the Associated Press, where she spent nearly a decade in various roles including reporter, assignment manager, editor, and lead political producer, and was instrumental in the launch of the AP’s digital operations in Washington. Vicary was also a reporter for various affiliates, and a program director at both PBS and Time-Life Video and Television. Vicary holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
Chapter Contributors
James T. Bond is the Senior Research Advisor for Families and Work Institute, or FWI. He also served as the Institute’s Vice President for Research from 1992 through 2010. He continues to be involved in the Institute’s work-life research program, which includes the ongoing National Study of the Changing Workforce, or NSCW, and National Study of Employers, or NSE. The NSCW periodically surveys nationally representative samples of employees, while the NSE surveys representative samples of employers. Over the years, Bond has authored or co-authored many FWI publications, most of which are described on the Institute’s website—www.familiesandwork.org.
Melissa Boteach is Director of Half in Ten and the Poverty to Prosperity Program at American Progress, where she coordinates “Half in Ten: The Campaign to Cut Poverty in Half in Ten Years.” Boteach previously worked as a senior policy associate and the poverty campaign coordinator at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, or JCPA, where she represented the JCPA to Congress, the administration, and in coalition on issues related to poverty, the federal budget, hunger, housing, and health care. As poverty campaign coordinator, Boteach also spearheaded JCPA’s national antipoverty campaign. A Harry S. Truman and George J. Mitchell Scholar, Boteach earned a master’s degree in public policy from The George Washington University with a concentration in budget and public finance, as well as a master’s degree in equality studies from University College Dublin. She also graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland with degrees in government and Spanish.
Heather Boushey is a Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth at the Center for American Progress. Her research focuses on U.S. employment, social policy, and family economic well-being. She co-edited The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything in 2009 and was a lead author of “Bridging the Gaps,” a 10-state study about how low- and moderate-income working families are left out of work-support programs. Her research has been published in academic journals and has been covered widely in the media, including regular appearances on “PBS NewsHour” and in The New York Times, where she was called one of the “most vibrant voices in the field.” She also spearheaded a successful campaign to save the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation from devastating budget cuts. Prior to coming to CAP, Boushey held economist positions with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the Economic Policy Institute, where she was a co-author of their flagship publication, The State of Working America 2002/3. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. from Hampshire College.
Dr. Anthony Carnevale currently serves as Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Between 1996 and 2006, Carnevale served as Vice President for Public Leadership at the Educational Testing Service, or ETS. While at ETS, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the White House Commission on Technology and Adult Education. Before joining ETS, he was Director of Human Resource and Employment Studies at the Committee for Economic Development, or CED, the nation’s oldest business-sponsored policy research organization. While at CED, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to chair the National Commission on Employment Policy. Carnevale founded and was president of the Institute for Workplace Learning, or IWL, from 1983 to 1993. Prior to founding IWL, he served as Director of Political and Government Affairs for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, the largest union in the AFL-CIO. Before joining AFSCME, he was a senior staff member in both houses of Congress. Carnevale was appointed as the Majority Staff Director on the Public Financing Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations and served on the Senate Committee on Budget. He also served as Senior Economist for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
Shawn Fremstad is an attorney and consultant in Washington, D.C. After graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School, he worked as a legal services attorney representing low-income people in legal matters involving family law, housing, benefits, and other civil issues. His work also included policy advocacy on behalf of the Minnesota Coalition on Battered Women and work as a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Commission on Child Support Rules, where he represented low-income mothers who were owed child support. Fremstad worked for six years at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he was a Senior Policy Analyst and Deputy Director of the Welfare Reform and Income Support Division. Since 2007, he has been affiliated with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, where he directed the Bridging the Gaps Project and is currently a Senior Research Associate. In his role as a consultant and policy advisor, he has written reports and conducted research for a number of national, nonprofit organizations, including CAP, the National Academy of Social Insurance, Demos, the National Council of La Raza, and the National Skills Coalition.
Ellen Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute, or FWI. She helped establish the field of work and family life while she was at Bank Street College of Education, where she was on the faculty for 25 years. Her more than 45 books and reports include the best-selling Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs; Ask The Children; the now-classic The Six Stages of Parenthood; and the highly acclaimed Workflex: The Essential Guide to Effective and Flexible Workplaces. She has published more than 125 articles in academic journals, books, and magazines. At FWI, Ms. Galinsky co-directs the National Study of the Changing Workforce, the most comprehensive nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce. She also co-directs When Work Works, a project on workplace flexibility and effectiveness that was first funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. When Work Works launched the Sloan Awards and conducted the National Study of Employers, a nationally representative study that has tracked trends in employment benefits, policies, and practices since 1998. A leading authority on work-family issues, Galinsky was a presenter at the 2000 White House Conference on Teenagers and the 1997 White House Conference on Child Care. She was a planner and participant at the March 2010 White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility. She served as the elected President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the largest professional group of early childhood educators.
Anne Mosle is a Vice President at the Aspen Institute and Executive Director of Ascend. In these roles, she is an advisor to the senior leadership of the Aspen Institute and directs the vision and strategic goals of Ascend, a policy program of the Institute. Ascend serves as the national hub for breakthrough ideas and multisector collaborations that move children and their parents toward educational success and economic security. The Aspen Institute’s mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. Prior to the Aspen Institute, Mosle served as a Vice President and officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she developed the Family Economic Security and Civic Engagement portfolios and oversaw the launch of the Mission-Driven Investing program. Prior to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Mosle served as the President of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation. Earlier in her career, Mosle was a member of the leadership team at the Center for Policy Alternatives. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the Oxford University Said School of Business.
Ann O’Leary is the Director of the Children and Families Program at Next Generation. Her work includes spearheading “Too Small to Fail”—Next Generation’s joint initiative with the Clinton Foundation to help parents and businesses take meaningful actions to improve the health and well-being of children younger than age 5—developing a national research portfolio, and leading policy activities in California. O’Leary also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she writes about work-family policies. She previously served as a lecturer in health law at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; as Executive Director of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security; as a Deputy City Attorney for the city of San Francisco; and as Legislative Director to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). She also led the children and family policy team on the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton. O’Leary is a member of the board for KQED, Northern California’s public news provider, and the East Bay Community Law Center, a legal aid clinic for low-income community members. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College, a master’s in education policy from Stanford University, and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Dr. Nicole Smith is a Research Professor and Senior Economist at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, where she leads the center’s econometric and methodological work. Smith has developed a framework for restructuring long-term occupational and educational projections. She is part of a team of economists working on a project to map, forecast, and monitor human capital development and career pathways. Smith was born in Trinidad and Tobago and graduated with honors from the University of the West Indies, or UWI, St. Augustine campus, with a double major in economics and mathematics. She was the recipient of the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Prize for outstanding research at the master’s level at the UWI and was a co-recipient of the 2007 Arrow Prize for Junior Economists for educational mobility research. She received her Ph.D. in economics from American University in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the center, Smith was a faculty member in economics at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. Her current research is on the role of cognitive and noncognitive competencies in shaping workforce outcomes and intergenerational education mobility.
Eve Tahmincioglu is the Director of Communications at Families and Work Institute and an award-winning labor columnist. She is the voice behind the popular CareerDiva.net blog and the author of From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons Learned on the Journey to the Top. As a columnist and business reporter for NBCNews.com, she was named top online business columnist in 2009 by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, was awarded a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award in 2005 for team small business coverage for BusinessWeek, and earned a fellowship with the Economics Institute for Journalists in 1995. In addition, CareerBuilder and CNN named her one of the top 10 career/workplace tweeters on Twitter, and CareerBuilder and Forbes named CareerDiva.net one of the top blogs in the country. She has more than 20 years of experience as a business reporter working as a staffer for Women’s Wear Daily, United Press International, and the St. Petersburg Times. She was also a long-time contributor to The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Workforce Management.