Laurie R. Garduque
Program Director, Research

Email: lgarduqu at macfound dot org

Laurie R. Garduque is a Program Director in the MacArthur Foundation's Program on Human and Community Development. As Program Director for Research, she provides research expertise for each strategy and ensures research elements of uniform high quality. Her primary areas of focus include mental health, juvenile justice, education, and early education and care.

Garduque joined the Foundation in 1991 after serving as Director of the National Forum on the Future of Children and Families, a joint project of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine. From 1984 to 1987, she was the Director of Governmental and Professional Liaison for the American Educational Research Association in Washington, D.C. This position followed the year she spent, from 1983 to 1984, as a Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate. From 1980 to 1985, Garduque held a faculty position as an Assistant Professor in human development at Pennsylvania State University.

She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Steven J. Casey
Manager, Grants and Budget

Email: scasey at macfound dot org

Steven J. Casey is the Manager for Grants and Budget in the Program on Human and Community Development. His primary responsibilities include grant administration and the preparation and monitoring of the grant budget.

Before joining the Foundation in May 2000, Casey was an Accounting Manager for McDonald's Corporation in Oak Brook, IL. Prior to that, he was the Assistant Host Committee Coordinator for the National Governors' Association, and the Controller of a Milwaukee-based construction firm.

Casey received his bachelor's degree from the University of District of Columbia and his master's degree from Marquette University, both in Business Administration.