Meet the staff

Meet our staff

For over 75 years, FAS has fostered the voices of world-class experts and early-career researchers alike from a variety of scientific, academic, and professional backgrounds.

meet our experts
Staff Fellow
Jenna Knobloch
Jenna Segal has worked nationally and internationally across the food system to develop and support equitable, sustainable food systems that positively impact the health and well-being of people around the world
Staff Fellow
Jenna Segal
Senior Fellow
Jennifer Erickson
Innovation,
Organ Donation Policy,
Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship,
U.K./Scotland Economic Policy/Politics
Senior Fellow
Jennifer Pahlka
State capacity,
Government innovation
Staff Fellow
Jess Rogers
Senior Manager, Environmental and Climate Policy
Jessica Blackband
Environmental policy,
wildfire,
federal permitting
Policy Entrepreneurship Fellow
Jessie Mahr
Environmental Technology,
Restoration,
Environmental Policy,
Environmental Justice
Staff Fellow
Jillian Dy
Director of Government Capacity
Jim Thompson
Public-Private Partnerships;
Procurement;
Open-Innovation;
Design-Thinking;
National Security
Staff Fellow
Jodie McVane
Staff Fellow
John Cotton Dean
Staff Fellow
John Reichard