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.

is a Center Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council during the Obama Administration.

is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He previously led the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and prior to that served as President of Demos.

is a Research Analyst in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. The opinions expressed in this piece are her own.

is the author of Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy and a senior fellow at FairVote.