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.

is the chairman of the Breakthrough Institute and co-author (with Ted Nordhaus) of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.

is a Ph.D. candidate in American Government at Harvard University.

is an adjunct professor at American University.

is a former teacher in the District of Columbia Public School system. He spent his first two of eight years teaching as a Teach for America corps member, and was the 55th National Teacher of the Year.