Staff
Sheldon Danziger
President
Sheldon Danziger is Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, where he was director of the National Poverty Center and founding director of the Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy.
Dr. Danziger holds a BA from Columbia University and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously served as president of the Russell Sage Foundation and taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Tom Kecskemethy
Executive Director
Executive Editor, The ANNALS
Tom came to the AAPSS from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, where he was the assistant dean and director of communications for over a decade.
Tom holds a BA from Penn State and MSEd and EdD degrees in higher education management from Penn. His academic interests include organizational change in higher education and the nature of effective leadership as a collective practice. Prior to his career in higher education, Tom was a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy.
Jessica Erfer
Program Manager
Jessica joined the AAPSS as a program manager after ten years in the federal civil service, most recently as a congressional analyst for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the AAPSS, she is responsible for event planning, external communications, and other administrative needs.
Jessica holds a BA in political science and philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA in political science from the University of Massachusetts, and she spent time studying politics at the University of Copenhagen.
Stacy Liu
Communications Coordinator
Assistant Editor, The ANNALS
Stacy originally joined the AAPSS as a proofreader and now manages The ANNALS’ submission and review processes in addition to the Dispatch and the AAPSS’s website.
Stacy holds a BA in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and their career background spans a variety of fields, including freelance proofreading and copywriting, business-to-business marketing, grassroots and electoral organizing, and fundraising.
