was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority.

is a Practitioner Fellow at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University and the former chief of staff at OSHA and Health and Safety Director for the UFCW and NELP.

is the president of The Nation magazine and the founding editor of Jacobin. He is co-author of the forthcoming book The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World (Verso, 2026).

is the author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (2025, Bloomsbury). Her previous book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020, Bloomsbury), formed the basis of the documentary feature God & Country, produced by the late Rob and Michele Reiner.

served as Pardon Attorney from 2022 to 2025.

is President and CEO of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council).

is the Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative. Prior to joining Groundwork, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Development and Industrial Strategy at the White House National Economic Council and as a Senior Policy Advisor for Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

is the author of Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.

is Presidential Chair and Professor of History, Emerita at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of several books on modern American history, including The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency.

is a strategist for the Center for Ballot Freedom. He was a co-founder of the Working Families Party.