a former special assistant to President Obama for energy and climate change, is professor of professional practice in international and public affairs and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.

is senior vice president at IHS. He served as the founder of the Bureau of Energy Resources in the U.S. State Department and as top energy adviser to the secretary of state from 2011 to 2014. He was U.S. ambassador to Mexico (2009-11) and Ukraine (2000-03).

is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His most recent book is Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Have Been Structured to Make the Rich Richer.

is the executive director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate.

previously served as assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Homeland Security and as Massachusetts’s homeland security adviser. She is the founder of Kayyem Solutions, LLC, a security firm, and is a faculty member at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her book Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your […]

is senior director of postsecondary education at the Center for American Progress.

is president of the Center for American Progress. 

is the founder and CEO of Be The Change, Inc. and co-founder of City Year.

, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is a former assistant secretary and chief financial officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She serves on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Veterans’ Employment, Training, and Employer Outreach and on the board of directors of the […]

is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama.