is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century.

is the former chair of the Democratic National Committee.

has been an organizer since the 1960s civil rights, women’s, anti-war, labor, and other movements. She was the founder and is now Board Chair of Midwest Academy, a training center for organizers. There is a new movie about her life “Heather Booth: Changing the World.”

is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. Her first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book in American History and the Lawrence Levine Award for best book in American cultural […]

served as a Special Assistant to President Obama on the National Security Council staff, where he also was the Spokesperson. Prior to serving at the White House, Ned was at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was a spokesperson and—prior to that—senior analyst. He publicly resigned from the Agency in February.

is a former congressman who was chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. He later taught at Harvard and Princeton before becoming a vice president of the Aspen Institute. He has been a regular columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, as well as a weekly commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered.” His latest […]

is a Democratic member of the Nevada Assembly representing District 30.

is an ethnographer interested in questions of politics and culture, critical social theory, and cities.  He is associate professor of individualized studies and sociology at NYU, where he directs the Urban Democracy Lab. He has written widely on Brazil, and more recently, on the United States   His last monograph, co-authored with Ernesto Ganuza, is Popular Democracy […]

is a summer fellow at Democracy.

is Professor in Community Cohesion at Coventry University, UK, and Visiting Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He writes in a personal capacity.