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Third Way
“Fresh Thinking”
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Note: It will not require that you do much digging, but you will know the moment that you catch a whiff that this entire outfit is a fresh stinking, deleterious and noxious pile of shit.
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BS “About“
Third Way is the leading moderate think-tank of the progressive movement. Our aims: an economic agenda that is focused on growth and middle class success; a culture of shared values; a national security approach that is both tough and smart; and a clean energy revolution. We create high-impact products for use by elected officials, candidates and the Administration.
Our team is comprised of a former White House deputy and agency chief of staff, senior congressional aides, policy experts, nonprofit leaders and campaign veterans. We are governed by a prominent private sector Board of Trustees. We also have a dozen elected officials who serve as honorary co-chairs. Three of our former chairs now serve in the senior ranks of the Obama administration: Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and Under-Secretary of State Ellen Tauscher.
“What We Believe“
Progressive politics is at its best when it seeks new and modern ways forward. When we are willing to break out of ideological boxes, we get the best governing solutions and foster a big-tent progressivism that attracts the plurality of Americans who call themselves moderates.
With our name, we proudly join the tradition of 20th century leaders who held true to core progressive values but also challenged outdated orthodoxies: Theodore Roosevelt, who tamed the fierce capitalism of the Gilded Age; Franklin Roosevelt, the “Great Experimenter;” Lyndon Johnson, who pushed his own party to embrace social justice; and Bill Clinton, who offered a new covenant with the middle class. And today, we are working with President Obama and Congress to ensure that this tradition continues—that reform and new thinking are essential parts of this next progressive era.
“What We Do“
We develop and advance fresh ideas and communications strategies. Our products are recognized as unique—concise, timely, politically incisive and easy to use. Our publications include new policy and legislative proposals, reports on pressing issues, and political framing and messaging documents based on our innovative public opinion research. We regularly host Idea Forums to discuss and debate hot policy and political topics. And we also conduct a pioneering style of interactive training and briefings for elected officials, staff and other progressive leaders.
“What They Say“
Politico labeled Third Way “the moderate voice of the progressive movement,” and both Newsweek and US News have described our work as influential. New York Times columnist David Brooks described Third Way as “creating the ideas that are giving Progressives control of the center.” Other national columnists, like EJ Dionne and David Broder of The Washington Post, and Joe Klein and Amy Sullivan of Time, have cited Third Way’s impact in shaping the national debate.
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Staff
Founders
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Jonathan Cowan - President
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Matt Bennett - Vice President for Public Affairs
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Nancy Hale - Vice President for Strategy & Leadership Development
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Jim Kessler - Vice President for Policy
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Culture Program
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Lanae Erickson - Deputy Director of the Culture Program
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Hazeen Ashby - Senior Policy Counsel
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Economic Program
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Anne Kim - Director of the Economic Program
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David Kendall - Senior Fellow for Health and Fiscal Policy
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Ed Gerwin - Senior Fellow for Trade and Global Economic Policy
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Jason Gold - Senior Fellow for Housing and Financial Services Policy
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National Security Program
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Andy Johnson - Director of the National Security Program
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Scott Payne - Senior Policy Advisor, National Security Program
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Kyle Spector - Policy Advisor, National Security Program
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Clean Energy Program
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Joshua Freed - Director of the Clean Energy Program
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Sam Hodas - Policy Advisor
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Elizabeth Horwitz - Policy Advisor
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Communications
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Sean Gibbons - Director of Communications
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Jill Pike - Senior Advisor for Communications & Media Strategy
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Bill Schneider - Distinguished Senior Fellow & Resident Scholar
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Bill Rapp - Senior Manager of Design and Production
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Outreach
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Rob Keast - Director of Outreach
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Meredith Berger - Senior Policy Counsel
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Administration
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Rich Gollub, CPA - Chief Financial Officer
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Brenda Bethea - Senior Manager of Administration
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Sylvia Lee - Executive Assistant to the President
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Sean Mickens - Executive Assistant to VP of Policy and VP of Strategic and Leadership Development
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Jessica Harris - Executive Assistant to Programs
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LaKia Thomas - Office Manager
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Contributing Authors
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Sean Barney - Contributing Author
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Pete Brodnitz - Principal, Benenson Strategy Group
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William Galston - Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
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Dr. Robert P. Jones - President, Public Religion Research
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Elaine Kamarck - Lecturer in Public Policy, The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
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Jeremy Rosner - Executive Vice President, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
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Honorary Co-Chairs
House of Reps
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Jane Harman - US House, California
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Ron Kind - US House, Wisconsin
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Joseph Crowley - US House, New York
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Artur Davis - US House, Alabama
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Melissa Bean - US House, Illinois
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Gabrielle Giffords - US House, Arizona
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Senate
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Blanche Lambert Lincoln - US Senate, Arkansas
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Evan Bayh - US Senate, Indiana
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Thomas Carper - US Senate, Delaware
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Mark Pryor - US Senate, Arkansas
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Claire McCaskill - US Senate, Missouri
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Mark Udall - US Senate, Colorado
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Emeritus
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Ken Salazar - Secretary of the Interior
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Kathleen Sebelius - Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Ellen Tauscher - Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
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Board of Trustees
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John L. Vogelstein – Chairman
Chairman of New Providence Asset Management, LLC and Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus, LLC. …began his career at Lazard Freres & Co., where he became a partner in 1964. He joined E. M. Warburg & Co., Inc. (later Warburg Pincus, LLC) in 1967. Over the course of the next forty years, he and Lionel Pincus built the firm to be one of the largest and most successful full line private equity firms in the world. In 2002, he stepped down as President of Warburg Pincus as part of a plan to pass control of the firm to the next generation.
Currently, Mr. Vogelstein is Chairman of the New York City Ballet; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Prep for Prep; Vice Chairman of the Board of Overseers of The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University; Trustee of New York University; Chairman of Third Way; Chairman of Christie’s Advisory Board; Trustee of Temple Emanu-El; Trustee of The Jewish Museum, and Director of Flamel Technologies.
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Bernard L. Schwartz – Chairman Emeritus
Chairman and CEO of BLS Investments, LLC. Mr. Schwartz retired in March 2006 after 34 years as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LORL), and its predecessor, Loral Corporation, headquartered in New York City. …has established several permanent programs at various institutions to study economic and public policy development, including Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the New School University, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Brookings Institution and Tel Aviv University.
…Schwartz serves as a trustee of the New York University Hospitals Center, the New York Historical Society, Thirteen/WNET Educational Broadcasting Corporation and Baruch College and is Vice Chairman of the New York Film Society. …In addition, Mr. Schwartz is a member of the Democratic Leadership Council and is a Director of the New America Foundation, where he sponsors several fellows, and a Trustee of Third Way, a progressive advocacy organization.
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David Heller – Vice-Chairman
… lives in New York City and is the Global Head of Equity Trading for Goldman Sachs. He currently sits on the firm’s Securities Division Operating Committee, Firmwide Risk Committee, Business Practices Committee, Finance Committee and Compensation Committee. Mr. Heller joined Goldman in 1989 in New York as an Equity Derivatives Trader. He worked for Goldman in Japan from 1993-1998, initially as an Equity Derivatives Trader and eventually as the co-head of Goldman’s Japanese equity business. Mr. Heller transferred to London in 1999 to become the Global Head of Equity Derivatives Trading and returned to New York in 2002. Mr. Heller loved his overseas experiences, both professional and personal, and continues to travel to Europe and Japan regularly.
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Principal and Portfolio Manager of Ospraie Management, LLC, an $8 billion investment firm focused on four investment strategies in the basic industry and commodity sectors—hedge fund, private equity, incubation/seeding and long-only. Ospraie actively invests in basic industry and commodity markets on a global basis from a fundamentally driven, long-term perspective.
Anderson founded the Ospraie Funds in February 2000 in partnership with Tudor Investment Corporation, where he served from July 1999 until December 2003. In 2004, he left Tudor to form Ospraie Management, LLC. Prior to joining Tudor, Mr. Anderson was an Associate Director and later a Managing Director in charge of the Basic Industries and Commodities Group at Tiger Investment Management from October 1994 to July 1999. Before joining Tiger, Mr. Anderson was an Associate at JP Morgan & Co.
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…an award-winning sociologist, criminologist, and journalist—is Founder and President of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. The Center is firmly committed to the idea that religious pluralism is one of the linchpins of a democratic society ["lol"]. To that end, the Center takes action against the destructive effects of religious hatred through a range of innovative domestic and international programs. These programs, which bridge theology and practicality, focus on: schools and afterschool programs, the workplace, deadly sectarian conflicts, special consultations and educational forums, etc.
Bennett has previously been affiliated with the Center for Policy Research in New York and the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. As a television and radio commentator, she was a Network Correspondent for NBC News and host of Walter Cronkite’s PBS current affairs series, Why in the World? She created three of her own syndicated radio programs and was a regular commentator for Fox-TV’s 10 O’Clock News. In addition, she created stories for 20/20, 60 Minutes, and MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
She has also served as Deputy Assistant Director for Administration of Justice, New York City Office of Management and Budget, Coordinator for Training and Evaluation and Personal Consultant to the Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, and on several university faculties where she taught sociology, education, research methods, law enforcement and criminology.
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