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About Mary Graham (writer)
- Mary Graham is an American writer and co-director of the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard University's John F.
- Kennedy School of Government. She has written four books on the politics of public information.
- Presidents' Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power, was published in 2017.
- In 2007, with co-authors Boston University professor David Weil and Harvard University professor Archon Fung, she wrote Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency.
- In 2002, she wrote Democracy by Disclosure: The Rise of Technopopulism.
- In 1999, she wrote The Morning after Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics.Graham has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, Environment , Issues in Science and Technology, and other publications.
- She has a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and an undergraduate degree from Harvard-Radcliffe.
- From 1967 to 2007, she was married to former Washington Post publisher Donald Graham.
- They have four adult children. From 2001 to 2013 Graham was a board member for the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation.
- In 2010, she joined the advisory board for the Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative.Earlier in her career, she practiced law in Washington, DC, worked on regulatory reform at the U.S.
- Department of Transportation, and worked on legislative and budget issues at the U.S.
- Office of Management and Budget. Graham is a trustee of the Juilliard School for the Performing Arts and a member of the visiting committee of the Columbia University School of Journalism. She also serves as a trustee emerita of the John D.
- and Catherine T.
- MacArthur Foundation, and serves on the board of directors of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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