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.

Craig Wacker
Program Officer

Email: cwacker at macfound dot org

Craig Wacker is a Program Officer in Digital Media and Learning, a strategy of the Program on Human & Community Development.

Before joining the Foundation, Craig worked as an analyst in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, DC, focusing on K-12 education policy. He has also served as a Congressional Fellow on Senator Edward Kennedy's staff; as a Research Associate at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; and on secondment to the World Bank Institute (WBI) of the World Bank Group.

Craig has his Bachelors degree in History from Grinnell College and his Masters in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin.