National
Events & Staff Associate
Abigail Hamilton is the Events & Staff Associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. She oversees the coordination of all internal and external events and is the personal assistant to Chester E. Finn, Jr. In collaboration with the American Enterprise Institute, Abigail also manages Fordham's Emerging Education Policy Scholar (EEPS) program that seeks to counter the long-standing divide between research and policy in education. She is a recent graduate of Boston College and plans to attend graduate school in the future. Prior to working at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, she worked as a research assistant for two professors and as an undergraduate research fellow for The Project on National Movements and Political Violence.