is the executive director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP), a national advocacy organization that fights for policies that dismantle structural racism and build worker power.

is a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Previously, he served as deputy chief of staff, deputy assistant secretary for policy, and senior counsel to the solicitor at the Department of Labor in the Obama Administration.

is a former senior advisor to three former EEOC chairs.

is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. He has also been a prosecutor in the Criminal Appeals & Tax Enforcement Policy Section of the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a visiting scholar at the Urban/Brookings Tax Policy Center. Follow him on Twitter @BDGesq.

is the former Deputy Assistant Administrator of the EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (2011-2014) and served previously as the Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (now the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy). He is a member of the Environmental Protection Network, a national, bipartisan organization of EPA alumni […]

is Associate Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University and the author most recently of State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States—and the Nation (Oxford, 2019). He is a member of Scholars Strategy Network and a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute.

is vice president, chief counsel, and a cofounder of Student Defense. Previously, he served as the Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, where he oversaw the Office of the General Counsel’s legal advice and litigation on higher education matters.

Ament is president and a cofounder of Student Defense. Previously, he served as Special Counsel for higher education issues and subsequently as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of the General Counsel.

is managing director of Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress.