is a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, where he focuses primarily on the Syrian conflict and its regional impact.

is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a researcher with the Wisconsin HOPE Lab.

is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Founding Director of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a translational research laboratory aimed at finding effective ways to make college more affordable.

is a research professor at George Washington University and an affiliated scholar at the Urban Institute.

is a policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

is the executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and senior associate at Yale University’s Zigler Center.

is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University.

is a playwright and former columnist for Time magazine.

is a former correspondent and columnist for The New York Times and a former senior of official in the State and Defense departments. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.

is the president of the Breakthrough Institute and co-author (with Michael Shellenberger) of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.