has worked at the intersection of law, policy, and philanthropy in private practice, as the Vice President for field programs at the American Constitution Society, as Director for the U.S. Democracy Program at Open Society Foundations, and as a consultant and adviser to progressive organizations and donors.
has been a leader in government, politics, and policy for more than 20 years, working for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, serving as a Senior Vice President at the Center for American Progress, and founding and leading the Hub Project.
teaches history at Hamilton College. His most recent book is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (Basic Books, 2024).
is an associate professor of business law at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He was previously an attorney at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
was general counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2021 to 2025. He is a senior fellow at Towards Justice and the University of California Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice.
is co-founder and President of One Fair Wage and the author of One Fair Wage (New Press, 2023), Forked: A New Standard for American Dining (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press, 2016).
is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Davis, Visiting Associate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, and Series Co-Editor of Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology. A political and economic sociologist, she is the author of Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018).
is the Executive Director of Workshop. She has worked for three decades to advance equity and workers’ rights through organizing, policy, government, and philanthropy.
is the Founder and President of Somos Votantes and Somos PAC, which run some of the largest independent Latino civic and voter engagement programs in the country. Through her work, Melissa has supported progressive candidates across the country, helped pass minimum wage ballot initiatives, and helped restore voting rights to disenfranchised voters.
is a co-founder of organizations combating the financial secrecy system, including Global Financial Integrity and the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition (FACT), and built the Kleptocracy Initiative (Hudson Institute).