Isabel Sawhill

Isabel V. Sawhill is a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, where she formerly held the position of Vice President and Director of Economic Studies, among other duties. She has authored and co-authored several books, including "Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America" and "Updating America's Social Contract: Economic Growth and Opportunity in the New Century".

Background

Sawhill received her Ph. D. in 1968 from New York University.

Her expertise lies in the areas of children, education, the federal budget, poverty and inequality, social welfare policy, and teen pregnancy. Prior to joining The Brookings Institution, Sawhill worked at the Urban Institute, the National Commission for Employment Policy, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Sawhill also served as an Associate Director in the Office of Management and Budget during the first term of the Clinton Administration.

Sawhill founded the nonprofit organization The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and serves on multiple other nonprofit boards. She is also the senior editor of The Future of Children, a joint effort with Princeton University.

Further reading

* [http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=114&subid=144&contentid=250088 Abstaining From Sex] article by Sawhill from Blueprint Magazine, January 22, 2002
* [http://www.brook.edu/views/papers/200604dickenssawhill.htm The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth] William T. Dickens, Isabel V. Sawhill, and Jeffrey Tebbs, April 2006

External links

* [http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/isawhill.htm Brookings Institution biography]
* [http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/sawhillandrivlin.html Biography] from PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers