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Introducing the 2026 APPAM Policy Council Members

We're excited to announce our newly-elected members of the APPAM Policy Council! Congratulations to these exceptional individuals. We look forward to your leadership in 2026 and beyond!

The Policy Council is APPAM's governing board and is responsible for setting policy and creating strategy for the Association. It currently consists of four elected cohorts serving staggered, four-year terms of office.

A big thank you as well to all of our members who voted in the election over the past month!

The APPAM officers (ex officio voting), the APPAM Executive Director, and the Editor of JPAM (ex officio non-voting) comprise the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is also part of the Policy Council.

Elected to the Executive Committee are:

Cynthia Osborne, Vanderbilt University
President-Elect for a one-year term, concluding with her appointment to APPAM President following our 2026 Fall Research Conference.

Johanna Lacoe, California Policy Lab/University of California, Berkeley
Vice President for a two-year term

Jordan Matsudaira, American University
Secretary for a two-year term

Among the four-person cohort for the Policy Council, one is a researcher in a non-academic setting; one is an institutional representative elected by the Committee of Institutional Representatives

Elected to the Policy Council are:

Korin Davis, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Non-Academic Researcher

Andrea Hetling, Rutgers University
Institutional Rep

Monica Garcia-Perez, Fayetteville State University
Academic Researcher

Brian McCabe, Georgetown University
Academic Researcher