Susan K. Urahn


E-mail: skurahn@pewtrusts.org

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pewstates

As executive vice president at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Susan K. Urahn leads the efforts of the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Center on the States, which helps states identify and implement policies that are fiscally sound and provide a return on investment to taxpayers.

Since 2007, Pew has released more than 20 50-state reports on pressing issues including the clean-energy economy, corrections costs and populations, pension obligations, the foreclosure crisis and access to quality pre-kindergarten.

Urahn joined Pew in 1994 after more than a decade of experience in policy research and educational evaluation with the Minnesota House of Representatives and at the University of Minnesota. After becoming director of Pew's education program in 2000, her portfolio steadily expanded to include a wide range of state policy initiatives. In 2007, she was tapped to build and lead the Pew Center on the States.

Urahn has testified before Congress and multiple state legislatures, and has been a featured speaker at conferences of organizations including the Public Policy Institute of California, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Conference of State Courts and the Philanthropy Roundtable.

Recent Articles

  • The Immigration Debate We're Not Having
  • Oct 2, 2013
  • No matter what Washington does, it will fall to the states and localities to address the social, fiscal and economic effects. We need to talk about how that will play out.


  • Building an Election System that Works
  • Mar 27, 2013
  • A new tool gives administrators and policymakers crucial benchmarking data they need to make the voting process fair, accurate and convenient.



  • The Power of Incentives for Performance
  • Aug 22, 2012
  • Corrections is one area in which a handful of states and their local governments are seeing big improvements in results — and saving millions in the process — through a novel funding approach.

  • Showing the Way on Tax Incentives
  • Jun 13, 2012
  • States generally don’t measure whether the billions of dollars in tax breaks they hand out for economic development are working. But there are some worthwhile efforts under way.

  • Technology for a 21st-Century Democracy
  • Apr 11, 2012
  • The outdated systems we use to register voters are often inaccurate, costly and inefficient. A new collaboration among states promises to go a long way toward bringing these systems into the modern age.



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