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.

is the Senior Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress.

is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is co-author, with Sam Rosenfeld, of The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics, and the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History.

is the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union (2020) and the forthcoming Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery.

is the former Beirut Bureau Chief of The Washington Post who has spent more than 20 years covering the Middle East.

is a research associate at Longwell Partners and has previously conducted public opinion research at Data for Progress. He was a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

is a columnist for MSNBC and Heatmap and the author of “The Cross Section,” a newsletter about politics, media, and culture. His most recent book is White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (with Tom Schaller).

is the chief advancement officer at Issue One and a philanthropic adviser in the democracy space. She holds a Ph.D. in media, technology, and democracy and researches money in politics, campaign finance deregulation, and the intersection of capitalism and American democracy.