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Phone: 202-467-5030
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E-mail: prc@prcdc.org
PRC Staff
Robert J. Walker
President
Prior to joining PRC in June of 2007, Mr. Walker was a management consultant and the President of Get America Working, a nonprofit organization committed to expanding employment opportunities for American workers. He has extensive nonprofit and government experience. He formerly was the Executive Director of the Common Cause Education Fund, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to promote open, honest and accountable government. He also served for three years as President of Handgun Control, Inc. and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, and four years as legislative director at Handgun Control, where he led the lobbying campaigns that led to the successful passage of the Brady Law and the federal assault weapons ban.
Prior to his work for Handgun Control, Mr. Walker worked for a total of 14 years on Capitol Hill, including five years as a legislative aide to Rep. John B. Anderson and six years as Legislative Director to Rep. Mo Udall, the Chairman of the House Interior Committee. He also served for two years as Legislative Counsel for the American Association of Retired Persons.
Mr. Walker received his B.A. in Economics from Rockford College in Illinois in 1973 and his J.D. from the University of Illinois School of Law in 1976. In 1977, he attended the University of Sydney in Australia under a Rotary graduate fellowship.
Larry Von Wilcher II
Program Associate
Larry Von Wilcher II, program associate, came to the Population Resource Center with experience working at social service and health centers in the Washington D.C. region. Mr. Wilcher previously worked as an intern at George Washington University Cancer Center in Washington, D.C., where he provided support and crisis intervention to patients and families dealing with cancer. At Annandale Assisted Living in Annandale, Va., he was employed as an intern who designed and carried out support groups for seniors. And at Lutheran Social Services in Falls Church, Va., Mr. Wilcher created individual plans for refugees and asylees aimed at making them self-sufficient.
A graduate of George Mason University College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences in Fairfax, Va., Mr. Wilcher earned a bachelor's degree in social work in December 2006. There, he also volunteered as treasurer of the Student Social Work Association.
Juliane Baron
Consultant
Juliane Baron, formerly the director of the DC office, currently works as a consultant for the Population Resource Center. Before joining the Population Resource Center, Ms. Baron was the Deputy Director of the Social Policy Action Network
Previously, Ms. Baron worked in the Texas Legislature, first as a legislative assistant and later as a committee clerk for the House of Representatives Committee on Pensions and Investments. Ms. Baron also was the project manager of Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study at Johns Hopkins University.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.