The Moscow Project
Max Bergmann
Co-Founder and Director
Max Bergmann is the director of the Moscow Project and a senior fellow at Center for American Progress, where he focuses on European security and U.S.-Russia policy. From 2011 to 2017, he served in the U.S. Department of State in a number of different positions, including as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff, where he focused on political-military affairs and nonproliferation; special assistant to the undersecretary for arms control and international security; speechwriter to then-Secretary of State John Kerry; and senior adviser to the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs.
Morgan Finkelstein
Press Secretary
Morgan Finkelstein is the press secretary for the Moscow Project. She previously ran rapid response communications for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania and was a spokeswoman for the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Prior to that, Finkelstein was press secretary for the Democratic Party of Virginia during the 2014 and 2015 election cycles and legislative sessions. Finkelstein also spent nearly two years on the road with former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden as a member of the White House’s advance team, coordinating press logistics and production elements all over the world.
Jeremy Venook
Research Analyst
Jeremy Venook is a research analyst for the Center for American Progress’s Moscow Project. He has previously worked as an editorial fellow at The Atlantic, where he wrote extensively about President Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest, and a City Year AmeriCorps Member in Boston.
Siena Cicarelli
Special Assistant
Siena Cicarelli is the special assistant for the Moscow Project. Prior to joining Center for American Progress, she worked for the National Democratic Institute on their Central and Eastern Europe team, where she focused on strengthening political parties in the Western Balkans. She previously interned at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of European Affairs.
Center for American Progress Board of Directors:
Sen. Tom Daschle, Chair
Neera Tanden, President
Glenn Hutchins
Jonathan Lavine
John Podesta
Susan Sandler
Tom Steyer
Donald Sussman
Hansjörg Wyss
Staff
Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress
Jennifer M. Palmieri, Executive Vice President, Communications and Advocacy
Winnie Stachelberg, Executive Vice President, External Affairs
Jacob Leibenluft, Executive Vice President, Policy
Gordon Gray, Chief Operating Officer
Legal
David Blumenthal, Legal Assistant
David Blumenthal is a legal assistant at Center for American Progress. Before his current position, he was a communications aide for both Tom Perez’s Democratic National Committee chair campaign and Hillary for America.