Michael Caudell-Feagan

Michael Caudell-Feagan serves as the Director of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Make Voting Work initiative and as a Senior Officer in the Pew Center on the States overseeing a campaign finance and elections portfolio. Prior to joining the Trusts, he served as the senior program officer of the Proteus Fund. At Proteus, Michael designed and managed grantmaking programs supporting state-level campaign finance reform, participatory elections initiatives and voter engagement efforts. Michael has provided management and consulting services to private and family foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Frances Fund, JEHT Foundation, Knight Foundation, Open Society Institute, Solidago Foundation and Stern Family Fund. He was the founder and executive director of Equal Justice Works (EJW), an association that organizes, trains and supports public service-minded law students and helps to create summer and postgraduate job opportunities in the government and nonprofit sector. Michael holds a bachelor of arts degree in government from Hamilton College and a law degree from George Washington University’s National Law Center.