Leadership

Stephanie oversees Advocacy’s team of attorneys in the review of federal regulations and other policies impacting small businesses. Interagency Affairs is the primary team responsible for monitoring agency compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). Stephanie’s primary responsibilities as Director are ensuring Interagency is adequately covering rules and policies at all stages of the rulemaking process and clearing all Interagency products, such as comment letters and the annual report on the RFA.

Pat is responsible for managing Advocacy’s economic analysis, data, and research activities. He leads Advocacy’s team of economists in conducting research on small business issues, evaluating the economic impacts of federal regulations on small businesses, and promoting and producing small business data and statistics. 

David oversees Advocacy’s public-facing communications and manages the Office of Information team. Before joining the Office of Advocacy, David spent eight years as a teaching assistant and graduate student at the University of Illinois. His background as a composition teacher and researcher focused on rhetoric and argumentation theory informs how he approaches Advocacy’s written materials. David holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation was on the rhetoric of Senate filibusters on civil rights from 1938 to 1964. He graduated magna cum laude with his bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University in 2011, earning honors in communication and political science.

Luciette Wren joined the Office of Advocacy in 1985. She currently oversees and monitors the office’s operating budget and manages the day-to-day administrative functions. She is the director of the Office of Administration. In this capacity, she supervises the unit that provides administrative support to the Office of Advocacy. Before coming to the Office of Advocacy, she worked in the Small Business Administration’s Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs.