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Stephanie Pippin

Stephanie Pippin was born in Nashville. She lives in St. Louis.

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Ruth Milkman

Ruth Milkman is a sociologist and the director of UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations. Her essay is drawn from her book L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement.

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Susan Barba

Susan Barba is the editor and publisher of Black Sparrow Books.

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Alex Keyssar

Alex Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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Heather Gerken

Heather Gerken is a professor of law at Yale Law School.

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Luis Ricardo Fraga

Luis Ricardo Fraga is an associate professor of political science at Stanford University.

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C.D. Wright

C.D. Wright is the author of Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil and Steal Away: Selected and New Poems. She teaches at Brown University.

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Marc Gaba

Marc Gaba is a founding editor of High Chair, a poetry-focused small press and online journal based in Manila. He received his MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 2005.

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Madeline Kotowicz

Madeline Kotowicz holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. She is a program coordinator of Hopa Mountain, a nonprofit that works with rural and tribal communities.

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Hal Varian

Hal Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. He also holds multiple academic appointments at the University of California Berkeley.

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David D. Clark

David D. Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a former chairman of the Internet Activities Board.

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Roger A. Grimes

Roger A. Grimes is Senior Security Consultant at Microsoft. He has written seven books and more than 200 magazine articles on the subject of computer security.

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Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She teaches at Cardozo School of Law in New York.

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Bruce M. Owen

Bruce M. Owen is the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University and director of the Stanford public policy program.

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Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at University of Oxford. His article is adapted from his book, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, published in April by Yale University Press.

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Smita Singh

Smita Singh is Director of the Global Development Program at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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Nancy Birdsall

Nancy Birdsall is President of the Center for Global Development.

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Jeremy M. Weisntein

Jeremy M. Weisntein is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. He is author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence.

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David N. Weil

David N. Weil is Professor of Economics at Brown University and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is co-director of the NBER project on African development success.

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Olu Ajakaiye

Olu Ajakaiye is Research Director at the African Economic Research Consortium.

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Ken Banks

Ken Banks has spent the last fifteen years working on projects in Africa and is the founder of kiwanja.net. He divides his time between Cambridge and Stanford University.

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Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author of the upcoming Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations.

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Roberto Suro

Roberto Suro, Professor of Journalism at the University of Southern California, is the founder of the Pew Hispanic Center and was a reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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Marc R. Rosenblum

Marc R. Rosenblum is Senior Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute and Associate Professor of Poltical Science and Robert DuPuy Professor of Pan-American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has recently completed a book, Defining Migration.

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