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).

is a law professor at Ohio State University and the author of Saving the Freedom of Information Act.

is a journalist, lawyer, and author. She writes at jill.substack.com.

is the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and author of American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy. He writes the “Our Land” newsletter.

is Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His latest book is The Economics of Structural Racism: Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets. He is a past president of the National Economic Association.

is the President and CEO of the Center for International Policy. Dr. Okail is a leading scholar, policy analyst, and advocate who has been working on issues of human rights, democracy, and security for the past 25 years.

is the CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.