The Urban Institute invites distinguished scholars, journalists, and senior policy practitioners to join us in residence as a Visiting Fellow for a semester or more. Meet our Visiting Fellows:
David M. Betson (Income and Benefits Policy Center)
David M. Betson is an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of Notre Dame. He is working on child nutrition and poverty issues as a visiting fellow. Betson, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, coauthored Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program: Final Report and Measuring Poverty: A New Approach, both published by the National Academy of Sciences. He also serves on the Academy's panel on school nutrition programs.
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez (Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center)
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to teaching at UT, Bonin-Rodriguez was an artist for more than 20 years—working as a dancer, playwright, actor, and television producer, as well as an arts administrator and advocate. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History, Criticism, Theory, and Text from the University of Texas at Austin.
Arkaprava Deb (Health Policy Center)
Arkaprava Deb is a preventive-medicine resident at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and an intern at Bassett Healthcare. He holds an M.D. from the NYU School of Medicine and a Masters in Public Administration from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Deb previously worked for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance—Majority Health Team, the NYC Office of Citywide Health Insurance Access, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
William T. Gormley (Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population)
William T. Gormley served as interim dean at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and is the codirector of the Center for Research on Children in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a leading expert in government reform, public management, childcare, and education. Gormley is the author of nine books and is planning a new book on children, preschool, and pre-K.
Erica E. Meade (Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population)
Erica E. Meade is a social science analyst with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her research interests are poverty, the working poor, labor economics, family policy, fatherhood, and incarceration and reentry. Meade earned her master’s from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
Steve Rosenthal (Tax Policy Center)
Steve Rosenthal is a tax lawyer who has practiced in Washington, D.C., for over 25 years. He previously was a partner at Ropes & Gray and at KPMG, where he specialized in the taxation of financial institutions and financial products (including derivative contracts). In the 1990s, Rosenthal was a legislation counsel with the Joint Committee on Taxation, where he helped draft tax rules for financial institutions, financial products, capital gains, and similar subjects. He is a member of the steering committee for the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association and was a former chair of the Taxation Section of the District of Columbia Bar Association.
Stephen Wandner (Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population)
Stephen Wandner, formerly a senior economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), is an expert in employment policy. He has directed DOL research on unemployment insurance, dislocated worker employment services, and job training programs. Wandner earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University. His latest book Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy (forthcoming) is about the effect of workforce research on public policy.
David Ian White (Tax Policy Center)
David Ian White is responsible for the taxation research agenda of the Centre of Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He serves as associate director of the Centre’s advisory board and as a member of the advisory board and associate professor for the School of Accounting and Commercial Law. White previously served as chief analyst for the Regulatory and Tax Policy Branch of the New Zealand Treasury.
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