is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Davis, Visiting Associate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, and Series Co-Editor of Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology. A political and economic sociologist, she is the author of Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018).

is the Executive Director of Workshop. She has worked for three decades to advance equity and workers’ rights through organizing, policy, government, and philanthropy.

is the Founder and President of Somos Votantes and Somos PAC, which run some of the largest independent Latino civic and voter engagement programs in the country. Through her work, Melissa has supported progressive candidates across the country, helped pass minimum wage ballot initiatives, and helped restore voting rights to disenfranchised voters.

is a co-founder of organizations combating the financial secrecy system, including Global Financial Integrity and the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition (FACT), and built the Kleptocracy Initiative (Hudson Institute).

is the President and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

most recently served as the Deputy Director of the White House Gender Policy Council in the Biden-Harris Administration. She leads her own consulting practice serving philanthropic and nonprofit clients.

is the director of democratic institutions at Roosevelt Forward, where he oversees research on improving democratic governance and curbing the corrosive influence of private power on democracy.

is the Executive Director of the American Economic Liberties Project, a research and advocacy organization focused on addressing the problem of concentrated corporate power.

is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017), co-author of Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law (2023), and author of many other articles and books on education policy, race, and residential segregation.

is the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy at Brown University. A political scientist, he is the author of House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).