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Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion (ComE-IN)
Guest Speaker Biographies - Ray Boshara
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Ray Boshara is Vice President for Domestic Policy Programs, Director of
the Next Social Contract Initiative, and Director of the Asset Building
Program at the New America Foundation, a post-partisan think tank based
in Washington, D.C.
Boshara is an
expert on savings and asset ownership strategies for low-income persons,
and in that capacity he has testified before Congress, published widely,
and advised leading policymakers around the world. Before joining New
America, he worked for
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CFED, the U.S. Congress, the United Nations in Rome, and Ernst & Young.
He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times,
The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, and the Brookings
Institution, and has appeared on CNBC, C-SPAN and radio programs across
the nation. His book, The Next Progressive Era, co-authored with
New America Schwartz Senior Fellow Phillip Longman, will be published in
late 2008.
Boshara is a graduate of Ohio State University, Yale Divinity School,
and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He was named a
PaceSetter at Ohio State, a Littauer Fellow at Harvard, and selected by
Esquire magazine as one of America's Best and Brightest. |
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