directs the New Models of Policy Change Initiative at New America.

is a freelance writer and book editor and former Managing Editor of Boston Review. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, New Republic, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Prospect, and elsewhere. Find him on twitter @simonwaxman, and on his website waxmanwrites.wordpress.com.

is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, where he teaches and researches human rights, democratization, and peacebuilding. He is the author or editor of eight books, including most recently, Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution (updated edition, 2015), Understanding International Law through Moot Courts (2014), and The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and […]

is a professor of history at The New School for Social Research and co-executive director of Public Seminar. Her most recent book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy.

is assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of Empire of Timber: Labor and Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests (2016) and Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe (2015).

is Professor of History and La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University. He s co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge History of Italian Americans.

is a staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) and works to promote fair-chance employment and opportunities for workers with records across the nation. She recently co-authored a report called “Unlicensed & Untapped: Removing Barriers to State Occupational Licenses for People with Records.”

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 […]

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, […]

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.