Michael Wood has been the Research Director for Keystone’s Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center since 2007. He received a Master of Public Administration degree from Penn State and a BA in accountancy from Western Michigan University. Michael has over ten years of prior experience in Pennsylvania tax research and local government budgeting. Prior to working at PBPC, he was the Budget Manager for the City of Harrisburg, PA.

Mark Price has been a KRC labor economist since 2004. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Utah. His dissertation, State Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets, was recognized with an Honorable Mention in the 2006 Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R.

Stephen Herzenberg (herzenberg@keystoneresearch.org) has been KRC Executive Director of the Keystone Research Center since the organization began operating in 1996.  He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT. Before joining Keystone, Steve taught at Rutgers University and worked at the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL). At USDOL, he served as assistant to the chief negotiator of the labor side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Dennis J. Bellafiore has been Operations Manager at KRC since 1997.  He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania where he served as Assistant Professor of Physics. He also served as Professor of Physics at Franklin and Marshall University. He worked for 12 years at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), including as the manager of its largest corporate account (DuPont) and as Total Quality Manager for the company.