The Team

Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis are co-directors of the American Human Development Project. The two are authors (with Eduardo Martins) of The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009, published by Columbia University Press, and A Portrait of Mississippi and A Portrait of Louisiana. They founded the project in 2006. Previously, Sarah worked with the United Nations for over two decades. Most recently she was Deputy Director of the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Prior to this, she worked with UNIFEM in China and in a number of African countries on gender issues and economic empowerment. Sarah holds an M.I.A. from Columbia University. Kristen also comes from an international development policy background, having worked primarily in the areas of gender equality, governance, environment, and water and sanitation. Kristen is co-author, under the leadership of Jeffrey Sachs’ Millennium Project, of the 2005 book Health, Dignity and Development: What will it take? She worked at the United Nations for some ten years, first with UNIFEM and then in UNDP’s policy bureau, and has served as a consultant for many international development organizations. Kristen holds an M.I.A. from Columbia University, as well.

Patrick Nolan Guyer, Program Coordinator, has most recently worked as a consultant to UNICEF’s Division of Policy and Practice and as a researcher with a group of academics based at the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs constructing and applying new measures for monitoring the fulfillment of human rights. He holds a BA in political science from McGill University in Montréal and an MA in International Affairs from the New School.

Ted Lechterman, Program Assistant, most recently managed communications for Corporate Accountability International. He serves on the board of the Council for American Students in International Negotiations and holds a BA in Government from Harvard.

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