Michael G. Hagen is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Public Affairs at Temple University. Hagen is a leading scholar in the areas of electoral politics and public opinion, and an expert in the field of survey research. He arrived at Temple in the fall of 2004, after two years as Associate Research Professor and Director of the Center for Public Interest Polling at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Joseph P. McLaughlin, Jr., Ph.D., is an associate fellow at the Institute for Public Affairs and also serves as assistant dean for external and governmental affairs for the College of Liberal Arts and adjunct professor in the political science department. McLaughlin joined Temple after a long career as a government official and urban lobbyist working on major public policy issues in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Washington D. C.

Dana L. Barron is Associate Director of IPA. She joined IPA in May, 2005, from the University of Pennsylvania where she was Executive Director of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender for six years. She also taught courses in women’s studies, history, and social work at Penn. She holds an AB, Magna Cum Laude, in History and Literature from Harvard University and a PhD in History from Penn.

Sharon A. Barkley-Samuels is the project coordinator for IPA, where she has been employed fulltime since October, 2005.  Prior to becoming the project coordinator for IPA, she worked eighteen months as the project coordinator for POMP (Philadelphia Outcome Measurement Project), which currently falls under the auspices of IPA. 

Charlene M. Wiltshire joined Temple University in November 2006 as IPA’s business manager. Previously, she had enjoyed a 25-year career in New England and Pennsylvania with what was formerly known as the Bell Telephone System -- spending more than 20 years managing various financial departments until 1996.