Our Team
Our leadership team consists of three leading experts in the fields of social security, aging, retirement, and disability. Professor Na Yin is an expert on work disability and Social Security disability programs; Professor Ruth Finkelstein is a policy expert on urban aging and the older workforce; and Professor Teresa Ghilarducci is one of the nation’s leading experts in retirement security and pension systems.
Co-Directors
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Na Yin
Na Yin is a labor and health economist specializing in work disability and Social Security disability programs. She is Associate Professor at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College. She also holds a faculty position at the CUNY Graduate Center and serves as a CIDR Faculty Associate.
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Ruth Finkelstein
Ruth Finkelstein is an internationally recognized expert in urban aging. She is the Rose Dobrof Executive Director of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, and a professor at the School of Urban Public Health and in the Roosevelt Public Policy Institute.
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Teresa Ghilarducci
Teresa Ghilarducci is a labor economist and nationally recognized expert in retirement security. She has written six books in the field. Ghilarducci is the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Analysis in the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research. She is the director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
Senior Staff
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Audra Aucoin
Communications and Administrative Associate, SCEPA
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Deborah Balk
Director of CIDR and Professor of Public Affairs, Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College
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Frank Heiland
Associate Director of CIDR & Professor of Public Affairs, Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
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James D. Howell
Computing Director, CIDR
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Desiree LaVecchia
Deputy Director, SCEPA
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Lawrence MacLean
Administrative Director of Research and Operations, CIDR
Researchers
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Anthony Webb
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christian gonzález-rivera
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Cicely Johnson
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Deborah Balk
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Diane Gibson
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Drystan Philips
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Duygu Basaran Sahin
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Eun Jeong Lee
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Frank Heiland
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Gang He
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Hilary Botein
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Hongwei Xu
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Janet Gornick
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Jasmine Manalel
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Jenna Tipaldo
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Jennie Kaufman
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Jess Hardie
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Jessica Forden
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Jessica Greene
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Joelle Saad-Lessler
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Joseph van der Naald
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Kaifang Luo
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Karen Richman
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Karthik Manickam
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Mara Getz Sheftel
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Mark Brennan-Ing
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Miriam Ryvicker
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Na Yin
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Rosemary Hyson
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Ruth Finkelstein
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Sanders Korenman
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Sarah Bruch
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Siavash Radpour
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Smita Ekka Dewan
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Sonia Cheruvillil
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Soyeon Cho
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Teresa Ghilarducci
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Yiyi Wu
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Yu-Jhen Chen