Mary Summers
Resident Senior Fellow

Mary Summers directs "Problem-Solving Learning"  courses and associated service-learning projects and speakers' programs. She was the principal investigator for a grant from the USDA to the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger for the development of a Food Stamp Enrollment Campaign that assists hundreds of clients a month. The West Philadelphia Recess Initiative, in which Penn students organize games at recess in two West Philadelphia Schools, grew out of her Healthy Schools course with support from the Graduate School of Education and the Netter Center. Summers’ research focuses on food, agricultural and educational institutions. She has written articles for The Nation, Urban Affairs Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Agricultural History and several edited volumes. She has also worked in health care as a Physician Assistant and in electoral politics as a speechwriter for Jesse Jackson, Harriett Woods, Dennis Kucinich, and John Daniels, the first African American mayor of New Haven.

Mark Alan Hughes
Resident Senior Fellow

Mark Alan Hughes is a senior fellow in the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program.  He has served as the Chief Policy Adviser to the Mayor and the founding Director of Sustainability for the City of Philadelphia, and is also an opinion columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News.
Hughes joined the standing faculty at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School at the age of 25, teaching land use planning, public management, and antipoverty policy. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard and Swarthmore. Hughes has held non-resident senior fellow appointments at Brookings and the Urban Institute; served as a senior consultant to the Urban Poverty Program at The Ford Foundation; and served as the first Vice President for Policy Development at Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia.
Hughes graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981 and received the Ph.D. in Regional Science from Penn in 1986, winning the discipline’s international Dissertation Prize. He won the National Planning Award from the American Planning Association in 1992, the youngest recipient ever, for his academic writing on regional labor market mobility. The Week magazine named him one of the nation’s five best local columnists in 2003. In 2006, Hughes entered the architecture degree program at Penn’s School of Design, pursuing a lifelong interest in architecture’s role in urban policy and practice; and in 2007, he served as policy director in Michael Nutter’s successful primary campaign for Mayor of Philadelphia.

Sigal Ben-Porath
Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Sigal Ben Porath is a non-resident senior fellow in the Fox Leadership Program and an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Ben-Porath received her doctorate in philosophy, with an emphasis on social and political thought, from Tel Aviv University.  She served as an assistant professor at Tel Aviv University and as a faculty member at the Israeli branch of Manchester University. In 2001, she accepted a position as a postdoctoral research associate at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.  Dr. Ben-Porath’s research focuses on civic education, social effects of war, and normative aspects of educational and social policy. Her areas of expertise include philosophy of education, political philosophy, and gender studies. She has published a book on civic education in wartime as well as articles on related topics and on the rights of weak groups in a just society and on government regulation of intimate life. Her current research focuses on choice as a democratic value and its role in democratic policy-making.

Stephanos Bibas
Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Stephanos Bibas is a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Fellow in the Fox Program.  He earned his B.A. in political theory from Columbia, his B.A. and M.A. in jurisprudence from Oxford, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he won its moot court competition and served as a Symposium Editor on the Law Review.  He then clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States and served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, where he successfully investigated, prosecuted, and convicted the world's leading expert in Tiffany stained glass for hiring a grave robber to loot priceless Tiffany windows from tombs.  As director of Penn's Supreme Court Clinic, he litigates a wide range of cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.  He writes primarily in the area of criminal procedure, including charging, plea bargaining, sentencing, and the disconnect between efficient lawyer-run procedures and the moral values that laymen expect criminal justice to serve.  His book on the latter topic, The Machinery of Criminal Justice, has just been published by Oxford University Press.

William J. Byron, S.J.
Non-Resident Senior Fellow

The Reverend William J. Byron, S.J., is University Professor of Business and Society at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia was interim president of Loyola University New Orleans in academic year 2003-04. From August, 2000 until June, 2003, he was pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, DC. From 1992 to 2000, he taught "Social Responsibilities of Business" in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he held an appointment as Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Ethics and served as rector of the Georgetown Jesuit Community. From 1982-1992, he was president of The Catholic University of America.  Prior assignments include service as president of the University of Scranton (1975-82), dean of arts and sciences at Loyola University of New Orleans (1973-75), and various teaching positions in his field of economics and social ethics.

John Lapinski
Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Professor Lapinski is a nonresident senior fellow in the Fox Leadership Program and an associate professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.   He also works in the Elections Unit at NBC News.  Previously he was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University.   His primary area of research is concerned with understanding lawmaking in Congress. He is also interested in congressional and presidential campaigns and elections as well as American political development.  His research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Politics. 

Jack Nagel
Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Professor. Nagel is a nonresident senior fellow in the Fox Leadership program, the Steven F. Goldstone Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, and the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies for the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Nagel studies and teaches about democratic theory, voting systems, social choice, and political participation. He has explored those themes with empirical research on the United States, New Zealand, and Britain. He is author of The Descriptive Analysis of Power, Participation, and many papers, including articles in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Public Choice, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Political Science, and elsewhere. Nagel has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Essex, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, an NSF grantee, and an IRIS Scholar. He serves on the editorial boards of Electoral Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Political Science. At Penn, he has served in numerous administrative roles, including Chair of the Political Science Department in 2000-03.

Maureen S. Rush
Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Maureen S. Rush, Vice President for Public Safety, University of Pennsylvania, directs the tactical and strategic direction of an award-winning Division comprised of seven departments and approximately 170 staff members. Under her leadership, in 2003, the Division of Public Safety was awarded the prestigious Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for its innovative technological programs as well as its campus and community patrols.
Prior to coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Rush had a distinguished eighteen-year law enforcement career with the Philadelphia Police Department serving in the Patrol Division, Anti-Crime Unit, Traffic Division, Narcotics Unit, and the Training Bureau.   In 1976 Ms. Rush was one of the first 100 women police officers hired to serve the City of Philadelphia on “street patrol” in a pilot program directed by the United Stated Department of Justice.  As a result of that successful pilot program, the Philadelphia Police Department now employs approximately 3,239 women police officers.   

Sam Adelsburg
Non-Resident Junior Fellow

Sam founded LendforPeace.org, the first web portal where individuals could lend to entrepreneurs in the Middle East. Before that Sam worked as a Senior Program Director at PlaNet Finance with a focus on US microfinance initiatives. He also did correspondence work for the Clinton Foundation and helped developed education policy for Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT).  In the last three years Sam has spent twelve months living in Israel as well as five months studying Arabic in Egypt.
 
Sam has been awarded the Martin Luther King Community Recognition Award, The “Best of Brooklyn” Award, and has been selected as the youngest Columbia Business School Rothschild Fellow. He graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Penn with a degree in Modern Middle East Studies and Philosophy, Politics and Economics. At Penn, he was the co-Chair of PRISM, the religious umbrella group and interfaith organization. He currently attends Yale Law School.

Caroline Gammill
Non-Resident Junior Fellow

Caroline Gammill (C ’07) is a nonresident junior fellow at the Fox Leadership Program. For two years she served as the inaugural Fox postgraduate fellow and Director of the Fox Leadership in New Orleans (FLINOLA) initiative. Based in New Orleans, she spent 50% of her time working on FLINOLA and 50% for Catholic Charities' Providence Community Housing Program. As the FLINOLA Director, she was responsible for the on-the-ground program operations including the spring break service trips to New Orleans and the summer internship program. Caroline graduated with a degree in History and minors in Hispanic Studies and French, from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2007 she received the David R. Goddard Award for exemplary service to the University community. She is currently pursuing a law degree at Boston University Law School.  

Judith Kim
Non-Resident Junior Fellow

Judith Kim (C ’09) worked on special projects for the co-CEO of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New Orleans during her post-graduate fellowship with the Fox Leadership Program. Her responsibilities included: restarting the volunteer program at Food for Families, Food for Seniors, a program that distributes federally donated food to low-income families and seniors to nutritionally supplement their diets; coordinating the Housing Summit group, created to help directors of programs that need to acquire housing for their programs to support and collaborate each other's efforts; helping create a Toastmasters club for the organization where employees can help improve their speech-making skills.
 
Judith graduated cum laude with a major in Political Science. She played violin in several chamber groups and pit orchestras, participated in the Fox Leadership’s summer internship program in New Orleans, and helped with the Fox Leadership’s spring break trip to New Orleans in 2009. She is currently pursuing a law degree at Boston University.

Sean-Tamba Matthew
Non-Resident Junior Fellow

Sean-Tamba Matthew (C '08) is a Non-Resident Junior Fellow at the Fox Leadership Program. He graduated from Penn with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Economics. While an undergraduate at Penn, Sean worked as a Fox summer intern, where he developed the BBBS/St. Francis DeSales Financial Literacy Program. Sean spent two years working at Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern PA as a Fellow in the agency’s two-year leadership and non-profit development fellowship program. During this past summer of 2010, Sean worked for Nutrition Development Services at the Archdioses of Philadelphia. He is currently pursuing a law degree at Temple University.

Nick Roosevelt
Non-Resident Junior Fellow

After completing his Fox Alumni Research and Service Fellowship with Providence Community Housing in New Orleans, Nick Roosevelt accepted a position with the City of New Orleans to work on various economic and housing development projects. A central focus of his work was coordinating and expanding the NEWCITY Neighborhood Partnership, a diverse and influential coalition of service providers, developers, funders, faith-based groups, schools, universities and government agencies dedicated to the educational, economic and housing development of the Tremé/Lafitte and Tulane/Gravier neighborhoods. 

Nick is from Berkeley, California and graduated magna cum laude in 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania, with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He received the 2008 Abraham D. Cohn Prize for outstanding academic achievement, personal integrity and service to the College community. As an undergraduate, Nick was a founder of the University's 1in4 chapter, a sexual assualt education program, and Co-Chair of the Civic House Associates Coalition.

A.J. Schiera
Non-Resident Junior Fellow

A.J. Schiera (C’09) is a Non-Resident Junior Fellow at Fox Leadership.  He graduated summa cum laude from Penn with a degree in American History and minors in Political Science and Urban Education.  A.J. first engaged with Fox Leadership and Penn Leads the Vote in 2006.  An Executive Board member in 2008, he helped devise and implement PLTV's first personalized, data-driven effort, turning out 89.6% of Penn undergraduates.  In addition to PLTV, A.J. composed an undergraduate thesis tracing the changing portrayals of Black Americans in mid-twentieth century high school history textbooks.  Working with students in seven Philadelphia schools has indelibly influenced his college career.  One of the first two Lenore Annenberg Teaching Fellows, he is currently beginning his second year as a social studies educator at University City High School Promise Academy in Philadelphia, teaching AP Government, Social Science, and US History. 

Lany Villalobos
Non-Resident Junior Fellow

Lany Villalobos (C ’09) is a Non-Resident Junior Fellow in the Fox Leadership Program and a Fox Post-Graduate Fellow.  In June 2011, Lany completed a two-year fellowship with Immigration and Refugee Services of Catholic Charities New Orleans. As case manager for the anti-human trafficking program, she provided comprehensive case management to victims of human trafficking in the New Orleans and surrounding areas. Case management consisted of connecting victims to social services like housing, food, medical, and legal aid. In addition, she worked with the Hispanic Apostolate by assisting the immigration attorneys on staff. Lany of Dallas, TX, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a degree in American History. During her time at Penn, she worked for the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger and for Philadelphia Legal Assistance. She was also involved in ACELA, Asociacion Cultural de Estudiantes Latino Americanos, a group under the Latino Coalition at Penn. In summer 2008, Lany participated in the Fox summer internship program in New Orleans.  Lany is currently attending law school at Villanova University.

Lia Howard
Alumni Research and Service Fellow

Dr. Lia Howard (PhD '10, C '00) received her PhD in Political Science and her BA cum laude in English with a minor in French both from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Howard’s dissertation work, which she is currently preparing for publication, studies the development of public education in the United States as viewed from the lens of compulsory schooling laws. She examines the impact of political culture upon the proclivity of states to adopt public schooling laws. While in graduate school, Dr. Howard was the grateful recipient of the Earhart Fellowship from the Earhart Foundation, the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn as well as the Benjamin Franklin Fellowship. Her research interests include American politics, public schooling in the United States, American political development, public administration, federalism, urban politics, women in politics and political culture.