is President and CEO of Higher Heights for America, the only national organization dedicated to expanding black women’s elected representation and voting participation.

is the co-founder of EquisLabs, an organization that works to create a more active and powerful Latinx electorate. She is the former deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement under the Obama Administration.

is the founder and president of New American Leaders, which works across the country to build the power and potential of first and second-generation Americans.

is the founder of She the People, a national network elevating the political voice and power of women of color.

is the president of BMK Consulting, a philanthropic and nonprofit strategy consulting firm, and the host of the Wonder Media Network podcast “White Picket Fence.” For more than a decade, she served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director for the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor network.

is a graduate of Emory University and Stanford Law School who lives in Helena, MT. She was most recently a legal fellow with the class action firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in Washington, D.C.

is a professor at Georgetown Law School and a co-director of the school’s Innovative Policing Program. Between 2010 and 2017, she served as Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.

is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a former executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education and U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus at Princeton University, where she is the Director of the Research Program in Development Studies. She is the co-author, with Angus Deaton, of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

is a member of the Dissent magazine editorial board, and writes frequently about progressive issues, with an expertise in areas related to progressive Judaism and Israel. Her last article for Democracy was “What Work Is.”