Membership in NASI
Over 800 of the nation's leading experts on social insurance are members of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Members volunteer their time to Academy activities and pay nominal membership dues. Members' affiliations include universities, think tanks, business, labor, legislative and executive branches of the federal or state governments, and interest groups. Members include policy analysts in income security and health care financing, economists, political scientists, physicians, actuaries, administrators of public and private benefit programs, social workers, sociologists, historians, journalists and scholars and practitioners in related fields.
Criteria for Membership
Membership is an honor for which individuals are nominated by two current Academy members. Individuals are considered for membership if they:
- Have demonstrated a sustained interest in social insurance and/or related fields. Social insurance includes broad-based systems for insuring workers and their families against economic insecurity caused by loss of income from work or the cost of health care. The Academy's scope includes such social insurance systems as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, workers' compensation and related social assistance and private employee benefits.
- Have distinguished themselves by improving the quality of research, teaching, policy making, administration or financing of the systems mentioned above; and
- Are supportive of and willing to contribute to the Academy's goals of furthering public education, developing new leaders, promoting research and providing forums for discussion among experts, stake-holders, policy makers, and administrators in the field.
Process for Selecting New Members
Prospective members are first nominated and co-sponsored by two current members of the Academy. The nominator explains in writing how the individual meets the membership criteria, provides a resume of the nominee, and arranges for several endorsers who are also members of the Academy. For information about how to nominate, contact Crystal Nelson at cnelson@nasi.org.
A Membership Committee meets to review nominations in light of the membership criteria and make recommendations to the Academy's Board of Directors. The Board acts on the Committee's recommendations. Those approved by the Board are invited to join the Academy. Employees of the Academy and those who serve on its Board of Directors are not eligible to nominate or co-sponsor new member nominations.
Membership Committee
- Susan Daniels, Chair
Daniels and Associates - Joseph Applebaum
U.S. Government Accountability Office - Charles Betsey
Howard University - John F. Burton, Jr.
Rutgers University - Marty Ford
The Arc and UCP Public Policy Collaboration - Regina Jefferson
The Catholic University of America - Cheryl Hill Lee
U.S. Census Bureau - Robert McGarrah
AFL-CIO - Terry Nixon
- Jonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Ralph Smith
Congressional Budget Office
