is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. His latest book is Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul.

is the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (2019).

is a staff writer for The Atlantic’s urbanism news site CityLab.

is associate professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order (University of Illinois Press, 2017).

is founding editor of the bilingual literary magazine Literal: Latin American Voices and Literal Publishing. She has authored The Water that Rocks the Silence (winner of the International Latino Book Award and the Panamerican Award Carlos Montemayor), Delta de las arenas: cuentos árabes, cuentos judíos, and Spaces in Between.

is the mayor of Southbend, Indiana.

is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program as well as the director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution.

is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond and author of Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life. He also has served as the first director of the City of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building.

 is co-director of the Democracy Initiative and the Dorothy Danforth Compton professor of practice at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. From 2009 until 2012, she was director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. 

is Chancellor Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law, and Director of the Program on Law and Government at Vanderbilt Law School.