Below is a staff list grouped by department. Individual biographies can be accessed by clicking on a staff member’s name.
- Jim Stergios: Executive Director
OPERATIONS
- Mary Z. Connaughton: Chief Operating Officer, & Director of Government Transparency
RESEARCH & PROGRAMS
- Gauri Binoy: Research Assistant, Life Sciences Initiative
- Aidan Enright: Economic Research Associate, & Fellow on Immigrant Entrepreneurship
- Jamie Gass: Director of the Center for School Reform
- William Smith: Senior Fellow, & Director of Pioneer Life Sciences Initiative
DEVELOPMENT
- Andrew Horgan: Chief Development Officer
- Caitlin Marple: Deputy Director of Development
- Katie Martinez Castellano: Director of Individual Giving
- John Guerra: Development Operations and Events Coordinator
COMMUNICATIONS
- Avonlea Cummings: Communications and Media Associate
- Amie O’Hearn: Director of Communications and Media Relations
- For media inquiries, please contact Amie O’Hearn, aohearn@pioneerinstitute.org
SENIOR FELLOWS
- Barbara Anthony: Senior Fellow in Healthcare
- Joshua Archambault: Senior Fellow in Healthcare
- Josh Bedi: Senior Fellow in Economic Opportunity
- Cara Candal: Senior Fellow in Education
- Charles Chieppo: Senior Media Fellow
- Eileen McAnneny: Senior Fellow in Economic Opportunity
- Robert Popovian: Senior Visiting Health Policy Fellow
- Michael Walker: Senior Fellow, Pioneer Analytics
- Andrew Mikula, Senior Fellow, Housing