Biography

I’m a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. I analyze a variety of social policy topics and am particularly interested in education and criminal justice issues.

Prior to the Center, I was a contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report, special projects director for The Washington Post Express, and research director for Education Week. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and Smithsonian. I'm also the founding editor of The Open Case, an online criminal justice magazine and currently serve as the research director of Leaders and Laggards, a joint project of the Center for American Progress, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute that evaluates state systems of education.

In February 2009, HarperCollins published my book The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft, and it received positive reviews in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and the Associated Press, among others. "Boser has produced a captivating portrait of the world's biggest unsolved art theft," noted The Wall Street Journal. “Boser has done a public service in exposing the real world of art theft,” said USA Today. The book spent more than a month on the Boston Globe best-seller list and became a national best-seller.

My writing and research has received a variety of awards and citations. Washingtonian magazine recently described me as "a writer to watch," and I have also been an Arthur F. Burns fellow and won the National Award For Education Reporting. I have also served as a commentator for CNN, National Public Radio, and The New York Times and presented at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the California State Legislature. I graduated with honors from Dartmouth College and live in Washington, D.C. with my wife and two daughters.

I can be reached at ulrich @ ulrichboser.com. My disclosure statement can be found here.