is vice president at the Brookings Institution and the founder and director of its Metropolitan Policy Program.

is the president of the Urban Institute and former deputy assistant to the President for economic policy.

is the adviser to the president of the Urban Institute and a doctoral student in public policy at Duke University.

is the founder, chair, and general counsel of the Corporation for Enterprise Development.

is president & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

is the global director of Citi Community Development.

is the former president of the Stride Rite Corporation and a current board member of the Fund for the Republic.

is an award-winning TV journalist, author of multiple books, and president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.

director of the Global Economic Policy Program at the New America Foundation and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School.

is the publisher of Democracy, the CEO of BLS Investments, and former CEO of Loral Corporation.