Kristen Lewis is Co-Director of
Measure of America and co-author of two volumes of The Measure of
America (Columbia University Press, 2008 and NYU Press, 2010) as well as
well-being reports for California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Marin
and Sonoma Counties.Before founding Measure of America with co-director Sarah Burd-Sharps
in 2007, Kristen was senior policy advisor to the water and sanitation
task force of the UN Millennium Project, led by Jeffery Sachs, and was
co-author of the task force report, Health, Dignity and Development:
What will it take? (Earthscan, 2005). She previously worked at the
United Nations for many years, first with UNIFEM and then as in UNDP's
policy bureau, and has served as a consultant on gender equality issues
for numerous international development organizations, including UNICEF
and UNFPA.Kristen contributes regularly to media outlets, with articles
published in the The Nation, Huffington Post, and Stanford Social
Innovation Review, among others, research cited by The New York Times,
Forbes, The Atlantic, Washington Post, NPR, Slate, Freakonomics blog,
and frequent newspaper and radio interviews. She received a Masters
degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.