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STAFF

Cara Cappello is the Staff Assistant of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. She graduated from Trinity College in May 2006 with a degree in Political Science (concentration in International Relations) and a minor in Spanish Language. As a senior at Trinity, she interned for State Senator John A. Kissel as a participant in Trinity's Legislative Intern Program. She from Pennsylvania and hopes to go to Law School within the next few years.

Sandra Garron is the Associate Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. She has been with the Center since 1991. Before joining the Center, Sandra held the position of manager of Harvard’s Cash Management department in Central Financial Administration where she concentrated on systems analysis and development for Harvard’s rapidly changing banking environment. Currently, Sandra oversees all of the administrative and financial operations of the Taubman Center and supports overall strategic planning and development for the Center. She is also responsible for financial oversight of each of the major programs that fall under the Taubman Center umbrella, including the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. Outside of work, Sandra volunteers as a tutor for "Stand and Deliver" an MCAS tutoring program in the City of Lawrence, and as Financial Administrator for the Northshore Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Edward L. Glaeser is co-director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and co-faculty director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He is a long-time Taubman Center faculty affiliate, and shares his post with Alan Altshuler, who directed the Center since its founding in 1988. He is a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He teaches urban and social economics and microeconomy theory. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. In particular, his work focuses on the determinants of city growth and the role cities as centers of idea transmission. He is writing a book on economics and the history of American cities. He is also co-editor (with John R. Meyer) of Chile: Political Economy of Urban Development, and also edits the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992.

Arnold M. Howitt is Executive Director of the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. He serves as faculty cochair of the executive program on Crisis Management and chair of the program for Beijing senior officials and teaches in several other KSG executive programs. His research focuses in part on emergency preparedness and crisis management. For four years he directed KSG's research program on domestic preparedness for terrorism. Howitt served on an Institute of Medicine panel that authored Preparing for Terrorism (2002), and is coauthor and coeditor of Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness (2003). Howitt's other research focuses on transportation and environmental regulation. He served on a National Research Council panel that wrote Air Quality Management in the United States (2004). He is currently studying strategies for reducing motor vehicle air pollution in China. In addition, he wrote Managing Federalism, a study of the federal grant-in-aid system, and is coauthor and coeditor of Perspectives on Management Capacity Building. He received his BA from Columbia University and his MA and PhD in political science from Harvard University.

Maureen Mahoney is a Financial Administrator to the Taubman Center. She has been with the Kennedy School since 1990 in various capacities. Maureen was a 2001 recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence and has served on several school wide committees, which include the Staff and Community Engagement Initiative and the New Work Systems at Harvard Design Team.

Nina Tobio is a research assistant at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard University, and after graduation she worked in economic consulting. Most recently, she received a master’s degree in film studies from Boston University.


RESEARCHERS

FELLOWS

Mary Graham is a Taubman Center Fellow and co-director of the Center’s new Transparency Policy Project. She also is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the board of directors of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and has worked for the U.S. Department of Transportation on regulatory reform and automobile safety issues and for the president's Office of Management and Budget. A lawyer who writes about environmental and technology policy issues, she is the author of Democracy by Disclosure: The Rise of Technopopulism and The Morning After Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics. She received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

David Weil is a Taubman Center Fellow and co-director of the Center’s Transparency Policy Project. He also is an associate professor in the Finance and Economics Department at Boston University’s School of Management. His research focuses on the economic implications of public sector interventions in the private sector, with a particular concentration on government regulatory policies pertaining to the labor market. He is the author of Turning the Tide: Strategic Planning for Labor Unions and co-author (with Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, and Janice H. Hammond) of A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from the Kennedy School.

David Giles is the Senior Research Assistant for the Program on Emergency Preparedness & Crisis Management at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. He received his BA in International Studies from Vassar College and his MA from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Before coming to the Taubman Center, David worked in Washington, DC as a research assistant at the Institute of Medicine. While there, he participated in the study Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan for U.S. Ports of Entry,which advised the CDC on how to best protect the country from infectious disease threats originating abroad. David has also served as an NGO Development Volunteer with the Peace Corps in Romania.