Our Team

Our leadership team consists of three leading experts in the fields of social security, aging, retirement, and disability. Professor Na Yin is an expert on work disability and Social Security disability programs; Professor Ruth Finkelstein is a policy expert on urban aging and the older workforce; and Professor Teresa Ghilarducci is one of the nation’s leading experts in retirement security and pension systems.

Co-Directors

  • Na Yin

    Na Yin is a labor and health economist specializing in work disability and Social Security disability programs. She is Associate Professor at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College. She also holds a faculty position at the CUNY Graduate Center and serves as a CIDR Faculty Associate.

  • Ruth Finkelstein

    Ruth Finkelstein is an internationally recognized expert in urban aging. She is the Rose Dobrof Executive Director of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, and a professor at the School of Urban Public Health and in the Roosevelt Public Policy Institute.

  • Teresa Ghilarducci

    Teresa Ghilarducci is a labor economist and nationally recognized expert in retirement security. She has written six books in the field. Ghilarducci is the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Analysis in the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research. She is the director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.

Senior Staff

  • Audra Aucoin

    Communications and Administrative Associate, SCEPA

  • Deborah Balk

    Director of CIDR and Professor of Public Affairs, Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College

  • Christopher Cook

    Senior Writer and Communications Specialist, SCEPA

  • Frank Heiland

    Associate Director of CIDR & Professor of Public Affairs, Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs

  • James D. Howell

    Computing Director, CIDR

  • Lawrence MacLean

    Administrative Director of Research and Operations, CIDR

Researchers

  • Janet Gornick

  • Sarah Bruch

  • Jess Hardie

  • Frank Heiland

  • Na Yin

  • Duygu Basaran Sahin

  • Sanders Korenman

  • Rosemary Hyson

  • Ruth Finkelstein

  • Jennie Kaufman

  • Christian González-Rivera

  • Jessica Forden

  • Siavash Radpour

  • Teresa Ghilarducci

  • Hongwei Xu

  • Mark Brennan-Ing

  • Jasmine Manalel

  • Joseph van der Naald

  • Yiyi Wu

  • Mara Getz Sheftel

  • Deborah Balk

  • Tony Webb

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