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Research Associate, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Nicole Overley is a Research Associate for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Nicole majored in International Studies with a concentration in Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University during the past three years, and starts this fall as a first-year graduate student at SAIS in DC, where she will concentrate in Strategic Studies and International Economics. At Hopkins, Nicole was the founder and President of Sigma Iota Rho, the International Studies Honor Society, and an Associate Editor of the New Diplomat and the National Journal of International Studies. She was also awarded a Woodrow Wilson Research Fellowship, studying recent developments in the American and British religious economies. Her research has been published in various print and online journals and presented at several national conferences. Nicole previously worked on Capitol Hill in the office of Representative Tom Price (GA-R) and at CRFB as an intern.
Project Director, Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform
Steve Redburn is the new project director for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform, housed at the New America Foundation. He will help the Commission analyze flaws in the federal government’s budget process that have contributed to the current unsustainable fiscal situation and identify a set of recommended reforms to produce better budget outcomes in the future. Dr. Redburn was most recently study director for the joint committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration whose report on options to address the long-term budget challenge, Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, was released in January. Steve is a NAPA fellow and adjunct faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. He served as senior executive at the Office of Management and Budget until his retirement from the federal service in 2006. He worked in 2007 as advisor to the budget director of Kosovo for a USAID development project. He has authored and edited numerous academic studies on the budget, public management, and a variety of public policy issues. His Ph.D. in political science is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Outreach Assistant, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Ashley Shuler is an Outreach Assistant for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She was a Program Assistant at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty where she assisted Law & Policy staff and Communication/Development Staff in weekly projects and performed research on housing and foreclosure crises. She was also a field organizer for the Judy Hirsh for State Senate Campaign supervising 25–30 volunteers for daily canvassing (door-to-door) efforts and tracking local, state, and federal legislation for candidate debates and press conferences. She is a graduate of The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA where she studied Government.