Mary Graham (née Wissler) is an American writer and co-director of the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard University's

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. 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

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professor David Weil and Harvard University professor

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, 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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' , '' Issues in Science and Technology'', and other publications. She has a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and an undergraduate degree from Harvard-Radcliffe. From 1967 to 2007, she was married to former ''

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'' publisher Donald Graham. They have four adult children. From 2001 to 2013 Graham was a

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for the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation. In 2010, she joined the

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for the

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's Public Policy Initiative. Earlier in her career, she practiced law in Washington, DC, worked on regulatory reform at the

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, and worked on legislative and budget issues at the

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. 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

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, and serves on the board of directors of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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