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Stephen Gresham is a visiting instructor at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University, and is business chair of Brown’s Retirement Readiness Project. The senior vice president of Fidelity Investments, he is the author of four books about the financial advice business, and has written more than 100 articles and regular columns. Email: [email protected]
Jennifer Slattery-Bownds is an adjunct lecturer and director of graduate study and career development at the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. She co-founded the Taubman Center's As America Ages Initiative in late 2008, working closely with Brown's Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, and is coordinator of the project. She also founded the Government at Work initiative at Brown. Her interests revolve around organizational development, and policies affecting working families. Email: [email protected]
Marion Orr is the Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions and the Fred Lippitt Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University. He previously was a member of the political science faculty at Duke University. A native of Savannah, Georgia, he earned his B.A. degree in political science from Savannah State College, M.A. in political science from Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University), and a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is affiliated with the Urban Studies Program.
He is the author and editor of four books, Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore (University Press of Kansas), which won the Policy Studies Organization's Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best book published in 1999, and The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton University Press), which was named the best book in 1999 by the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Urban Politics Section. He is the editor of Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change and Power in the City: Clarence Stone and the Politics of Inequality. He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles, essays, and reviews.