David Gray

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Workforce and Family Program

Rev. Dr. David E. Gray directs the New America Foundation's Workforce and Family Program, which researches and develops solutions to social, economic and family policy issues.

Dr. Gray speaks frequently about issues of work-life balance, family and child well being, politics, religion and workforce policy at events, on Capitol Hill and in the media. His writings have appeared in publications such as the Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and Washington Post.  He is a contributing blogger for the Huffington Post and has been interviewed widely by the foreign and domestic press.

David is a former Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), where he managed the DOL offices of regulatory policy, programmatic policy, compliance assistance/technology, and economic analysis/research, staffed a number of White House working groups, and represented the U.S. abroad in negotiations in Mexico and in Chile. He has served as a Counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Governmental Management and as a legislative aid to several members of Congress.

David is the Senior Pastor of Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, a chaplain at American University, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of Yale, Harvard, Northwestern University School of Law and Wesley Theological Seminary.

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