is the under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, which oversees the Institution’s history and art museums, cultural centers, and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Exhibits and the National Collections Program. A citizen of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Gover served from 2007 to 2021 as the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and its George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. He also oversaw the Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Maryland. He led the museums to pursue equity and social justice for Native people through education, inspiration and empowerment, and the museums have worked to expand people’s ideas of what it means to be Native American. Gover served as U.S. assistant secretary of the interior for Indian affairs from 1997 to 2000. He practiced law at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington and then joined the faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2003. He earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his J.D. from the University of New Mexico.

was appointed principal deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2021. She also served as acting assistant secretary for planning and evaluation (ASPE) for more than a year and is currently the ASPE nominee. Previously, she was a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, an assistant professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and a health care attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP. A lawyer and health policy researcher, Haffajee’s work combines detailed legal analyses with empirical investigations of the relationships between policy and health. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Academy Health Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and JAMA Psychiatry and covered in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Public Radio. She earned her B.A. from Duke University and her Ph.D. in Health Policy, J.D. and M.P.H. from Harvard.

is a graduate of the United States Military Academy – West Point, a former U.S. Army infantry officer and a combat veteran with multiple deployments to Afghanistan. Prior to his election to the Massachusetts State Senate in 2020, where he serves the Worcester and Middlesex District, he was a veterans advocate at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. As a senator, his legislation aims to achieve mental health parity in our healthcare system; to increase social and economic mobility through expanded workforce development programming; and to promote the revitalization of the Commonwealth’s 26 Gateway Cities. Last year, Cronin was recognized as a public advocate champion by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation for his advocacy of STEM-related workforce education and career training efforts in the state. He earned his J.D. from Suffolk University.