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Gabriel Zucker

co-founded the Coalition for Free and Fair Filing in support of Direct File and tax system access during the Biden Administration, co-founded FileYourStateTaxes, and helped lead the implementation of GetCTC at Code for America. His work spans tax policy, benefits access, and international development.

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Kelli Smith

is Senior Director of Campaigns Research at the Economic Security Project, where she co-founded the Coalition for Free and Fair Filing, led the organization’s campaign in support of Direct File, and oversaw the Future of Tax Filing Fellowship. 

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Jonathan Cohn

is senior national correspondent at The Bulwark and author, most recently, of The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage. From 1991 through 1997, he was a writer and editor at The American Prospect.

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Brandon DeBot

is a senior attorney advisor and policy director at the Tax Law Center at NYU Law. He previously served in tax and budget policy roles in the White House during the Obama and Biden Administrations, most recently as special assistant to the president for tax policy from June 2023 to January 2025.

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Chye-Ching Huang

is executive director of the Tax Law Center at NYU Law and a nationally recognized expert in tax policy. Before founding the Tax Law Center, she was senior director of economic policy for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and a tax academic at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

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Harvey Kaye

is Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of numerous works, including Thomas Paine and the Promise of America; The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great; and Take Hold of our History: Make America Radical Again.

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Elizabeth Garlow

is a Fellow at New America and former policy adviser in the Obama Administration. Her work focuses on economic reforms that support wellbeing.

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Mark Thomas

researches appropriations law and the legal architecture of industrial policy. A Harvard Law graduate and former OMB law clerk, he publishes “Enabling Acts,” a newsletter on legal scholarship and the abundance agenda.

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William Gale

is the Miller Chair in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

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