Stephen Crawford

is a deputy director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Crawford previously served as a division director of the National Governors Association; vice president of the National Policy Association; executive director of the Governor’s Workforce Investment Board (MD); executive director of research centers in College Park and Cambridge; professor at Bates College; and assistant dean at the University of Pennsylvania. Political experience includes positions as president of the United Democrats of Frederick County (MD); elected member of the Frederick County Board of Education; and Democratic nominee of MD’s 6th Congressional District (1996). Crawford also served three years in the U.S. Army (airborne, ranger), one as infantry officer, Vietnam (Bronze Star).

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Bates College The oldest coeducational college in New England

• Professor (past)

University of Pennsylvania Private, Ivy League university founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1740 as one of the nine colonial colleges chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence

• Assistant Dean (past)

National Policy Association

• Vice President (past)

National Governors Association

• Division Director (past)

United Democrats of Frederick County

• President (past)