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Emma Saunders-Hastings

Emma Saunders-Hastings is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

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Gara LaMarche

Gara LaMarche is Senior Fellow at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and former President and CEO of the Atlantic Philanthropies.

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Robert K. Ross

Robert K. Ross is President & CEO of The California Endowment. He served as director of the Health and Human Services Agency for the County of San Diego from 1993 to 2000, and was Commissioner of Public Health for the City of Philadelphia from 1990 to 1993.

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Eric Beerbohm

Eric Beerbohm is Frederick S. Danzinger Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University.

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Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer is President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of The People Themselves.

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Pablo Eisenberg

Pablo Eisenberg is Senior Fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

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Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Seana Valentine Shiffrin is Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA.

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Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and author of An Economist Gets Lunch.

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Rick Cohen

Rick Cohen is National Correspondent for Nonprofit Quarterly and former executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP).

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Paul Brest

Paul Brest, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, is former President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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Deborah Fung

Deborah Fung is the Executive Director of The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation.

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Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education.

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Stanley N. Katz

Stanley N. Katz is Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2010.

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Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine’s Break the Glass was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

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Faiza Patel

Faiza Patel co-directs the Liberty and National Security Program at New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice.

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Christopher J. Coyne

Christopher J. Coyne, F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University, is author of Doing Bad by Doing Good.

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Peter Godfrey-Smith

Peter Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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E. Lily Yu

E. Lily Yu is the author of On Fragile Waves, Jewel Box, and Break, Blow, Burn, & Make.

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Judith Levine

Judith Levine is a journalist, commentator, and author of five books, most recently The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence, coauthored with Erica R. Meiners. She writes the Today in Fascism newsletter on Substack.

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Aliya Saperstein

Aliya Saperstein is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.

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Stephen Phelan

Stephen Phelan’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Believer

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John Freeman

John Freeman’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.

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Deborah Landau

Deborah Landau’s fourth collection of poetry, Soft Targets, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2019.  She directs the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

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Layna Mosley

Layna Mosley is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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