Aidan is the state policy director at ITEP, where she coordinates the organization’s state tax policy research and advocacy agenda. She leads ITEP’s state team, engages regularly with the media, and works with policymakers, legislative staff, and partners across the country to advance equitable and sustainable state and local tax systems.
Her work focuses on how tax and budget policies affect low- and moderate-income families and the governments’ ability to fund priorities like education, childcare, infrastructure, and health care. She has authored numerous publications on national tax policy trends, progressive revenue options, refundable tax credits, and policies to reduce inequality, and is a co-author of ITEP’s flagship report, Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States.
Before joining ITEP in 2015, Aidan worked at The Pew Charitable Trusts on tax and budget policy, providing research and technical assistance to strengthen states’ long-term fiscal health. With a focus on property taxes and a range of issues affecting low-income families, she has held roles with two fiscal offices – the District of Columbia’s Office of Revenue Analysis and Vermont’s Joint Fiscal Office – and the George Washington Institute of Public Policy.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and a Master of Public Policy from George Washington University.
