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Our Leadership



Founding Principals


The principal initiators of The Democracy Collaborative include:

Gar Alperovitz Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and President of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives.

Benjamin R. Barber Distinguished University Professor, Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and the Maryland System-wide Wilson H. Elkins Professor at the University of Maryland, and author of Jihad vs. McWorld, Strong Democracy, and other works.

Stephen Elkin Founder of the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS) and Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

William A. Galston Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement in the Maryland School of Public Affairs, Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) and a founder of the National Alliance for Civic Education.

 

Jessica Gordon Nembhard Professor in the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, and previously a fellow of The Preamble Center.

Virginia Hodgkinson Director of the Center for the Study of Voluntary Organizations and Service at Georgetown University and President of the International Society for Third Sector Research.

Gary LaFree Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, and formerly Chairman of the Sociology Department at the University of New Mexico.

Linda Williams Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland and formerly Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Education at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

 

 
You may also explore Books & Articles authored by our principals.

Professor of Practice
Harris Wofford
University of Maryland

Staff & Other Leaders
Ted L. Howard
Executive Director
thoward@democracycollaborative.org

James V. Riker
Associate Director
jriker@democracycollaborative.org

Margaret Morgan-Hubbard
Associate Director
mmh@democracycollaborative.org

Sondra Myers
Senior Associate

 

Szilvia Rohoska
Faculty Research Assistant
srohoska@democracycollaborative.org

Alex Campbell
Faculty Research Assistant
acampbell@democracycollaborative.org

 

Graduate Assistants

Visiting Research Fellow

Lorrie Frasure
Lynne Garcia
Ann Marie Leonetti
Patricia Steele
  Felix Nolte
Örebro University, Sweden


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