Advisory Board

The Local Policy Lab Advisory Board is comprised of city, democracy, and climate experts from across the country. The Board advises the organization on strategy, policy interventions, and operational work.

• Suzette Brooks Masters, Senior Fellow, Democracy Funders Network

• Nicole Capretz, CEO, Climate Action Campaign

• Mary Beth Collins, Executive Director, Center for Community & Nonprofit Studies at UW-Madison

• Marjan Ehassi, Future of Democracy Fellow, Berggruen Institute

• LiJia Gong, Policy and Legal Director, Local Progress

• Jess King, Executive Director, Steinman Institute for Civic Engagement

• Rey Lopez-Calderon, Consultant, Lopez-Calderon and Associates

• Hollie Russon Gilman, Political Reform program Senior Fellow, New America

• Terrance Smith, Public Innovation Fellow, Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins

• Tova Wang, Senior Researcher in Democratic Practice Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

• Valerie Lemmie, Senior Advisor for State and Local Government at the Kettering Foundation