Editor Andrei Cherny
Editor Kenneth Baer
Managing Editor Clay Risen
Associate Editor Ethan Porter
Intern Joseph Berger

Editorial Committee
Louis Caldera
Christopher Edley, Jr.
William Galston
Leslie Gelb
Elaine Kamarck
Robert Reich
Susan Rice
Isabel Sawhill
Theda Skocpol
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Sean Wilentz

Board of Advisors
Robert Abernethy
John Dyson
Mitchell Kapor
Eric Mindich
Steven Rattner
Bernard Schwartz
Deane Shatz
Adam Solomon
Andrew Stern

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Andrei Cherny, Founder and Co-Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, has been widely recognized as one of his generation's leaders in developing and disseminating a new progressive agenda. In 2004, Cherny was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. From February 2003 to April 2004, Cherny served as a senior aide to John Kerry's Presidential campaign.

Cherny is the author of The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age, one of the top-selling political books of 2001. The Next Deal examined the role technological change has played in altering perceptions of major institutions over the course of American history and laid out a vision for government and businesses in the twenty-first century.

A former Senior Speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, Cherny was the youngest White House speechwriter in American history. In 2000, Cherny was the lead negotiator and chief drafter of the national Democratic Party platform. In addition to his professional work, Cherny is an officer in the United States Navy, Reserve and a contributor to a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and The New Republic. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and received his juris doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).

Kenneth Baer, Founder and Co-Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, is a former White House speechwriter, author, and analyst who has made his mark in politics, business, and academia. As the founder of Baer Communications, LLC, he has written for and advised Fortune 500 executives, non-profit leaders, presidential candidates, and elected officials at every level of government. During the 2004 election, he was a senior advisor to the Joe Lieberman for President campaign and later advised the Kerry-Edwards campaign on a variety of policy issues.

Before founding Baer Communications in 2001, Baer was Deputy Director of Speechwriting for Gore-Lieberman 2000 and Senior Speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore; he also wrote on technology and telecommunications issues for FCC Chairman William E. Kennard. Baer is the author of Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton (University Press of Kansas, 2000), has published commentaries in publications such as Slate, The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, and has been a political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News, NPR, BBC, and CBC. Baer has a doctorate in Politics from Oxford University and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In addition to running Baer Communications, he has taught at Georgetown University and at Johns Hopkins University. During the 2004 election, Baer was an online columnist for The American Prospect. Currently, he is a contributor to the popular blog, www.TPMCafe.com.

Clay Risen is the Managing Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Prior to joining Democracy, Risen was an assistant editor at The New Republic, where he covered business and politics. Among other publications, his work has appeared in The American Prospect, The Boston Globe, Metropolis, The New York Times, and The New York Observer.

Risen grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He received a B.A. from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. Between his undergraduate and graduate education he taught in an Austrian public school through the Fulbright Commission's English Language Teaching Assistantship Program.

Ethan Porter is the Associate Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. A 2007 graduate of Bard College, Ethan has been published in Newsweek and The Forward. He has served as the National Communications Director for the College Democrats of America and, while at Bard, he edited the campus newspaper and the campus international affairs journal. Fittingly enough, in addition to winning the Bard Political Studies Prize, he was also a two-time winner of the school’s Democracy Award.

Editorial Board Bios

Louis Caldera is a professor of law at the University of New Mexico. He served as President of the University of New Mexico from 2003 until early 2006. Caldera was the Secretary of the Army between 1998 and 2001 and, prior to that, the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, the National Senior Service Corps, and Learn and Serve America.

Caldera was born in El Paso, Texas and grew up in Southern California. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1978 and, after five years of service, left the Army to attend Harvard University, from which he received both a law degree and a master's degree in business education in 1987. Between 1992 and 1997, Caldera represented the 46th District in the California State Assembly.

After leaving Washington in 2001, Caldera served as Vice Chancellor for University Advancement in the California State University System until 2003. Caldera is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Christopher Edley, Jr. became Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2004. Prior to his arrival at Berkeley, Edley spent 23 years as a professor at Harvard Law School. Edley's research and writing focuses on civil rights and administrative law. While teaching at Harvard, he co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative on racial justice.

Edley served in the Carter Administration as Assistant Director of the White House domestic policy staff. He later served as National Issues Director for Michael Dukakis's 1998 presidential campaign and as a Senior Adviser on economic policy for the 1992 Clinton transition team. Under President Clinton, Edley served as Associate Director for Economics and Government at the Office of Management and Budget, as special counsel to the president, and as a consultant to the president's Advisory Board on the Race Initiative. Between 1999 and 2005, he sat on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and in 2001 he served on the Carter-Ford National Commission on Federal Election Reform.

Edley is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Public Administration, a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and the Century Foundation, and a member of the executive committee of the advisory board for the Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academies of Sciences.

The author of several books, Edley used his experience working on racial issues in the Clinton White House to write Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values, which appeared in 1996.

Edley received his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the law review.

William Galston is Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings in January 2006, he was a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, the Director of its Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and Founding Director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). Galston's research and writing, which includes eight books and more than 100 articles, focus on political theory, public policy, and American politics.

Galston's political involvement includes serving as chief speechwriter for John Anderson's National Unity campaign, Issues Director for Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, and senior adviser to Al Gore's 1988 and 2000 presidential campaigns. Under Bill Clinton he served as Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy from 1993 to 1995.

After leaving the Clinton administration, Galston served as Executive Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal from 1996 to 1998. He has also served as Director of Economic and Social Programs at the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. He currently serves as a founding member of the board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as Chair of the campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values. Galston has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Ethics, The Responsive Community, and Perspectives on Politics.

Leslie Gelb is the President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. A respected foreign policy analyst, Gelb is a former correspondent, columnist, and editor for The New York Times. He won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism.

In 1967, Gelb joined the Department of Defense as the Director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs, where he served until 1969, winning the Distinguished Service Award, the Pentagon's highest honor. Gelb went on to be a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting professor at Georgetown University, and, from 1973 to 1977, a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times. He returned to government service in 1977, serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Political/Military Affairs. Gelb won that department's highest award as well, the Distinguished Honor Award. He left the State Department in 1979 to become a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Gelb returned to The New York Times in 1981, serving as, in turn, national security correspondent, deputy editorial page editor, op-ed page editor, and columnist. Gelb became President of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1993. He moved into his current emeritus position in 2005. Gelb is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The author of several books, Gelb received the Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book on international relations from the American Political Science Association for his 1981 book The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked, co-authored with Richard Betts.

Gelb received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University.

Elaine Kamarck has lectured on public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government since 1997. She served four years in the Clinton Administration, where she developed and ran the National Performance Review and worked on the President's welfare reform task force. Kamarck also served as a domestic policy adviser to the 2000 Al Gore presidential campaign.

Earlier in her career, Kamarck served as Director of Special Projects for the 1980 Carter presidential campaign and as a staff member of the Democratic National Committee.

Since coming to the Kennedy School, Kamarck has directed the Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century program and has served as faculty advisor to the Innovations in American Government Awards Program. Kamarck's research focuses on government reform, the role of the Internet in political campaigns, homeland defense, and intelligence reorganization.

Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. Reich has a long and distinguished career in public service, including four years as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton.

A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Reich graduated from Dartmouth College, Oxford University (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law School. He went on to serve as Assistant to the Solicitor General under Gerald Ford and to direct the policy planning staff of the Federal Trade Commission under Jimmy Carter. Reich co-founded both the Economic Policy Institute and The American Prospect, where he also served as Chairman.

Reich has written ten books, including The Work of Nations, The Future of Success, and Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America. In 2003 he received the Vaclav Havel Prize for his work in economic and social thought. Reich is also a prolific writer for newspapers and magazines, and he is a weekly contributor to National Public Radio's "Marketplace."

Susan Rice, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 to 2001, one of the youngest assistant secretaries ever. An expert on terrorism, conflict resolution, and international development, Rice had previously worked in various positions at the National Security Council, including Senior Director for African Affairs and Director for International organizations and Peacekeeping. In 2004 Rice served as Senior Advisor for National Security Affairs for the Kerry campaign.

A graduate of Stanford University, Rice received her doctorate at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2000 she received the White House's Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award, given for distinguished contributions to the promotion of peaceful international relations.

Isabel Sawhill is the Vice President and Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she also co-directs the Center on Children and Family.

An expert on social and economic policy, Sawhill previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and, during the Clinton Administration, as Associate Director of Human Resources at the Office of Management and Budget. Sawhill has also taught as a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, directed the National Commission for Employment policy, and served as President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

Apart from her work at Brookings, Sawhill is the President of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and Senior Editor of The Future of Children. She has written and edited a number of books, including Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues and Challenge to Leadership: Economic and Social Issues for the Next Decade.

Sawhill received both her undergraduate education and doctorate from New York University.

Theda Skocpol is a professor of government and sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. A well-renowned political scientist and comparative-historical sociologist and the first female sociologist to receive tenure at Harvard, Skocpol is a past president of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association, a past director of Harvard's Center for American Political Studies, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Skocpol is the author of nine books, nine edited collections, and almost 150 articles. Her first book, 1979's States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China, won the C. Wright Mills Award and the American Sociological Association Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship. Her other books include Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, Bringing the State Back In, and Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, which won five scholarly awards.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Skocpol completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University and received her Ph.D. from Harvard. Along with her association posts, she has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She is co-chair of the Princeton Project on National Security, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Slaughter is also a former president of the American Society of International Law. Her book A New World Order was recently published by Princeton University Press.

Before coming to Princeton, Slaughter was a professor of international, foreign, and comparative law and the director of graduate and international legal studies at Harvard Law School.

Slaughter is a graduate of Princeton University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School.

Sean Wilentz is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and the Director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University.

Wilentz is the author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Andrew Jackson, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th Century America, The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, and Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, the last of which won several academic awards. He has also edited two volumes of historical works, Major Problems in the Early Republic and Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual and Politics Since the Middle Ages.

A member of the executive board of the Society of American Historians and a fellow of the Society of American Historians, Wilentz received bachelor's degrees from Columbia and Oxford and his Ph.D. from Yale.