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Responsible for setting the research agenda; supervising policy staff, adjunct policy fellows, and interns; national fundraising and donor relations; editing press releases and grant proposals; writing weekly/monthly impact reports, newsletter stories, and annual report summaries; giving presentations to PRI’s Board of Directors; advising lawmakers and providing legislative testimony; speaking with the media, editorial boards, and grassroots civic groups across the country; and researching, writing, editing, and marketing studies, briefings, op-eds, and blogs.

Worked on special institutional projects that involved editing books, developing companion web sites, and writing grant proposals.

Responsible for the daily operation and the editorial content of a national subscription newsletter that reviewed, every six weeks, economic journal articles relevant to current public-policy issues for academic, business, and government economists and policymakers. As the editor and publisher, designed the marketing literature and the newsletter; researched and wrote thirty-six review articles on monetary and fiscal policy, government regulation, crime, health care, and political institutions; edited outside contributions; performed all pre-press production; maintained the subscriber database; and budgeted operations.