About the Staff

Jane Shaw shaw@popecenter.org President Jane S. Shaw joined the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy in September 2006. She was previously director of communication and a senior fellow of PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. PERC is a nonprofit institute that seeks to improve environmental quality through markets. Shaw has been a frequent speaker and writer on environmental topics. With Michael Sanera she coauthored Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment (Regnery 1999). She coedited A Guide to Smart Growth: Shattering Myths and Providing Solutions (Heritage Foundation, 2000) with Ronald Utt. Earlier in her career, Shaw was a journalist. Before joining PERC in 1984, she was an associate economics editor of Business Week, working in New York City. Before that she was a correspondent for McGraw-Hill Publications in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Shaw received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Wellesley College. Shaw is a past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, a national organization that promotes a better understanding of markets. She is a senior editor of Liberty magazine, editorial adviser to Econ Journal Watch, a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Regulation, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London).

George Leef georgeleef@popecenter.org Director of Research George Leef holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law. He was a vice president of the John Locke Foundation and director of the Pope Center until the Pope Center became an independent entity in 2003. Previously, Leef was on the faculty of Northwood University in Midland, Michigan, where he taught courses in economics, business law, and logic. He has also worked as a policy adviser in the Michigan Senate, and since 1996 has served as book review editor of The Freeman. Leef is the author of Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement (2005) and editor of Educating Teachers: The Best Minds Speak Out (2002). Leef has published widely, with articles and reviews appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Regulation, the Christian Science Monitor, the Detroit News, Raleigh News & Observer, the Cato Journal, and other publications. He has testified before committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and the legislatures of Michigan and North Carolina and has made numerous TV and radio appearances.

Jay Schalin jschalin@popecenter.org Senior Writer Jay Schalin joined the Pope Center in August 2007. He researches and writes about higher education issues, primarily in North Carolina, and oversees the center’s Web site and weekly newsletter, Clarion Call. A Philadelphia native, Schalin began working as a freelance journalist for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey in 1994 and has also written for several other papers in New Jersey and Delaware. In 1998, he returned to school to complete his education, graduating from Richard Stockton College in New Jersey with a B.S. in computer science in 2001. After graduation, he was employed as a software engineer for Computer Sciences Corporation. Schalin has an M.A. in economics from the University of Delaware.

Jenna Ashley Robinson jarobinson@popecenter.org Campus Outreach Coordinator Jenna Ashley Robinson joined the Pope Center in January 2007. She was previously the E.A. Morris Fellowship Assistant at the John Locke Foundation, where she worked since 2001. Robinson graduated from N. C. State University in 2003 with a major in political science and French. She has studied at the University of East Anglia School of American Studies in Norwich, England. She received her master's degree in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill in December 2005 and is a Ph.D. candidate in political science, with a concentration in American politics and a minor in methods.

Carolyn Zahnow czahnow@popecenter.org Communications Manager Carolyn Zahnow is a Raleigh, North Carolina, native who has also lived in southern California and North Texas. She joined the Pope Center in December 2006. Zahnow has a degree in marketing management from San Diego City College and in communications from N. C. State University. Past working experiences include time spent with Nokia Mobile Phones in Texas, where she created internal communications programs, and a year of substitute school teaching in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In North Carolina, Zahnow worked at IBM in Research Triangle Park and Cooper Tools in Apex.

Barbara Masie bmasie@popecenter.org Policy Analyst Barbara Masie, who joined the Pope Center in April 2008, is responsible for all the accounting and financial aspects of the organization. Masie graduated from Union College with a B.S. in industrial economics. Before taking time off to spend with her children, Masie was a financial analyst with the IBM Corporation, working in Connecticut, New York, and London. She also owns a custom stationery business, Creative Graphics.