Pronouns: He/Him

Mark Huelsman is the Director of Policy & Advocacy at The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs, where he focuses on federal policy efforts to modernize higher education and safety net policies to support students' basic needs and improve college affordability. He also currently serves as a Fellow with Protect Borrowers, a nonprofit organization fighting to build an economy where debt doesn’t limit opportunity. 

Mark has appeared on NPR, Fox News, C-SPAN, Yahoo! Finance, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg TV, and his writing and work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Slate, Vox, Marketwatch, The Nation, The Guardian, Inside Higher Ed, the New Republic, The American Prospect, The Hill, and U.S. News and World Report.  In 2016, he was named to the Politico 50 guide to the thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics for his role in sparking a national policy conversation around debt-free college.

Previously, Mark has held roles at several public policy organizations and think tanks, including Demos, the Institute for Higher Education Policy, New America, and the Brookings Institution. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mark holds a B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, and an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.