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Laura H. Kahn

is a physician and research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She is a regular columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and has authored two books, Who’s in Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises, and most […]

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Thomas G. Weiss

is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow exploring a counterfactual for his upcoming book, Would the World Be Better Without the UN? His most recent books are What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2016) and Humanitarian Intervention […]

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Carl Takei

is a Staff Attorney at the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. He litigates prison, jail, and immigration detention conditions class action lawsuits in federal court and performs advocacy on issues of mass incarceration, prison privatization, and immigration detention. He is a lead author of the 2014 ACLU report Warehoused and Forgotten: Immigrants […]

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Robert Silverman

is a Professor and the Ph.D. program director in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. His research focuses on community development, the nonprofit sector, community-based organizations, education reform, and inequality in inner city housing markets. He has authored several books and articles, including his most recent book, Affordable Housing […]

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Peniel Joseph

is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor of history. He is the author of several books, most recently […]

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Lily Geismer

is an assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and the author of Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Trans­formation of the Democratic Party.

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Julie Fernandes

was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Justice Department from 2009-2011 and is currently the Advocacy Director for Voting Rights and Democracy at the Open Society Policy Center.

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