Type: Staff

Maria Monroe is the associate director of digital strategy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Maria was the editorial and operations coordinator at Orb Media, a non-profit journalism organization in Washington, D.C., and the multimedia editor at The Care Courses School, Inc., a distance-learning provider. Maria holds a master’s […]

Sanjay Supan is a project manager of academic research at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, he served on Montgomery County, Maryland’s climate action planning team, worked in business-to-business advertising sales, and coached speech and debate in South Florida. Supan holds a B.A. in international relations from American University, as […]

Kaley Kawi is a development coordinator at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Kawi served as development intern at The Homeless Children’s Playtime Project in Washington, D.C. In addition to her internship and administrative experience with law firms in both D.C. and her hometown of Buffalo, NY, she has volunteered […]

Madison Moore is the senior communications manager at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she was an award-winning broadcast journalist, working as a reporter and anchor for local television stations in Syracuse, NY and Milwaukee, WI. While in Milwaukee, she dynamically reported on the 2024 presidential election, including coverage of […]

David S. Mitchell is a senior fellow for tax and regulatory policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He previously served as Equitable Growth’s director of government and external relations. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Mitchell was the associate director for policy and market solutions at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, where he […]

Megan E. Rivera is a fellow for policy and advocacy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and was 2024–2025 Siegel Research Fellow. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she was a senior policy analyst at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. Rivera previously served as the policy and outreach advisor on the U.S. House […]

Chiara Chanoi is a research assistant at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she worked as a research staff associate at Columbia University’s Department of Economics, where she primarily investigated racial disparities in police homicide victimization rates from economic and historical perspectives. She also participated in the Archer Fellowship program […]

Chris Bangert-Drowns is a senior research associate at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, he worked as a journalist with WPFW-89.3 FM, where he focused his reporting on economic policy and worker organizing. He also worked for the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO; AFSCME 1072; and other labor organizations in research, […]

Chris Clayton is the government affairs associate at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, he held positions at the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA-8), and the Center for American Progress. Clayton holds a B.A. from Louisiana Tech University and an M.P.P. […]

Emilie Openchowski is the senior manager of editorial at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Previously, she worked at the Center for American Progress and the Clinton Foundation on the CGI University team. She has a Master of Science degree in political sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s […]