is the author, most recently, of I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger. She teaches in the Literary Journalism program at the University of California at Irvine….

is an associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State. He is currently at work on a book about the changing politics of food and agriculture in the United…

is co-director of Education Sector and a member of the Virginia Board of Education. He writes the blog Eduwonk.com….

is the S.K. Heninger Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill….

is director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. He is currently a visiting scholar at the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley, and senior research associate at…

is Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress….

is assistant professor at American University’s School of International Service and the author of Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises….

is a professor of economics in the School of Economics at Georgia Tech. He is also CEO of EuQuant, an economic consulting and research company, and serves as consultant to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation….

is the president and CEO of Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship….

consists of Joe Aldy, Vicki Arroyo, Ales Laskey, Manik Roy, and Lexi Shultz. The discussion was moderated by Bryan Walsh of Time magazine….