Sarah Burd-Sharps is the co-director of the American Human Development Project and co-author of The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 . She worked on human development issues for over twenty years, at both the global level and in communities in over 40 developing nations. She served as the deputy director of the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report Office until September 2006.
Kristen Lewis is the co-director of the American Human Development Project and co-author of The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 . She has worked on human development issues for over twenty years, at both the global level and in communities in over 40 developing nations. She was a lead author of the water and sanitation report of the UN Millennium Project, led by Jeffrey Sachs, and writes extensively on development, gender, and the environment.