Suzanne Kahn

Senior Vice President, Programs and Policy

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Suzanne Kahn is the senior vice president of programs and policy at Roosevelt Forward, where she advises on policy research and other programmatic initiatives.

Suzanne works with Roosevelt Forward’s policy experts to develop and incubate policy ideas and shape Roosevelt Forward’s advocacy.

Suzanne’s prior work for the Roosevelt Institute and Roosevelt Forward focused on education, jobs, and worker power.

Before joining Roosevelt Forward, Suzanne most recently worked as a research analyst at SEIU 32BJ, where she built a program to organize workers in new residential developments. Suzanne holds a PhD in American history from Columbia University and earned her BA from Yale University. Her book, Divorce, American Style, won the American Society for Legal History’s Cromwell Dissertation Prize. As an undergraduate, in 2005, Suzanne was a founder of the Roosevelt Network.