David Gray

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Workforce and Family Program

David E. Gray directs the New America Foundation's Workforce and Family Program, which researches and develops solutions to social and family issues and builds common ground between people across ideological, political and theological boundaries. He manages the program's various projects, including its Healthy Families and Religious Center Initiatives.

Rev. Gray speaks frequently about issues of faith and life, family well being, and workforce policy at events, on Capitol Hill and in the media. His writings have appeared in publications such as the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and WashingtonPost.com. He has been interviewed widely by the foreign and domestic press including CNN Radio, WTOP Radio, Forbes, Marketwatch, BNA, The Economist, Congressional Quarterly, San Fernando Valley Business Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle.

An attorney and ordained Presbyterian minister, Rev. Gray is a former acting assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), where he managed a 54-person staff, a $15 million budget and the DOL offices of regulatory policy, programmatic policy, compliance assistance/technology, and economic analysis/research. In that capacity, he advised the Secretary of Labor on a variety of policy issues, staffed a number of White House working groups, and represented the U.S. abroad in negotiations in Mexico and in Chile. He has also served as a Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and as a legislative aid to several members of Congress.

Rev. Gray is an associate pastor at Georgetown Presbyterian Church, is a chaplain at American University, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of Yale College, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Northwestern University School of Law and Wesley Theological Seminary.

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