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Ben Railton

is Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies at Fitchburg State University. He is the author of four books, including the forthcoming History and Hope in American Literature: Models of Critical Patriotism. He maintains the daily AmericanStudies blog, and has contributed public scholarly pieces to the Huffington Post, We’re History, The Conversation, The American […]

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Melissa R. Michelson

is Professor of Political Science at Menlo College. She is co-author of Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (Yale, 2012), Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth (Paradigm, 2014), and Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford, Feb. 2017). She has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, […]

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Danielle Martin

is a family physician in Toronto and Vice President, Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women’s College Hospital. Her book, Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians, will be released by Penguin Random House in January 2017 and is available for pre-order online where books are sold.

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Susan Sered

is a Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston and the author of Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity and Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility. You can read more at susan.sered.name.

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Peter Gatrell

teaches history at the University of Manchester where he is affiliated to the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. He is the author most recently of The Making of the Modern Refugee (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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Lina Khan

is a fellow with the Open Markets Program at New America and a third-year student at Yale Law School.

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Devin Fidler

is a Research Director at Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit research firm focused on exploring emerging issues and technologies.

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Marina Gorbis

is Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a 53-year old non-profit research and educational organization. She is the author of The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World. 

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