Reid Cramer

New America

Reid Cramer is Director of the Asset-Building Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote policies and ideas that significantly broaden access to economic resources through increased savings and asset ownership, especially among lower-income families. Previously, he served as the program’s Research Director and as a Co-director of the New America Foundation's Next Social Contract Initiative, an effort to examine the delivery of social policy for the 21^st century. Prior to joining New America, Dr. Cramer served as a Policy and Budget Analyst at the Office of Management and Budget. He has worked for a range of nonprofit housing and community development organizations, the National Research Council and the Urban Institute. He has a doctorate in Public Policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Masters' degree in City and Regional Planning from the Pratt Institute, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University.