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Jenifer Fernandez Ancona

Jenifer Fernandez Ancona is cofounder and vice president of Way to Win.

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Thomas Ferguson

Thomas Ferguson is Research Director at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His books include Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems and, with Joel Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics.

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Julia Serano

Julia Serano is a writer, activist, and biologist. Her books include Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity and Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back. She writes the Switch Hitter newsletter on Substack.

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G. Elliott Morris

G. Elliott Morris is a data-driven journalist and author of Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them. He writes the Strength in Numbers newsletter on Substack and formerly served as editorial director of data analytics at ABC News, including FiveThirtyEight.

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Trevor E. Brown

Trevor E. Brown is a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with Suzanne Mettler, of Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy.

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Suzanne Mettler

Suzanne Mettler is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions and Interim Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her latest book, coauthored with Trevor E. Brown, is Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy.

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Michael Kimmage

Michael Kimmage is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America.

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Timothy Shenk

Timothy Shenk is Assistant Professor of History at the George Washington University. His books include Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics and Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule America.

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Amanda Litman

Amanda Litman is cofounder and president of Run for Something, which recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for down-ballot office. She is the author of When We’re in Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership.

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Henry Burke

Henry Burke is a senior researcher at The Revolving Door Project. His writing has also appeared in Rolling Stone, The American Prospect, and Newsweek, among other publications.

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Nabil Salih

Nabil Salih is a writer and photographer from Baghdad. His writing has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is an incoming PhD candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

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Ayelet Shachar

Ayelet Shachar is William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Her books include The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality and The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility.

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Rami Abu Jamous

Rami Abu Jamous is a Gazan journalist and the founder of Gaza Press, an agency that provided assistance and translation services to Western journalists. He writes regularly for Orient XXI.

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Maya Krishnan

Maya Krishnan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her writing has also appeared in The Point and The Oxonian Review.

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Dara Lind

Dara Lind is a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council. She previously reported on immigration for ProPublica and Vox.

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Aaron Labaree

Aaron Labaree is a writer based in New York City. His work has appeared in Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books, among other publications.

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Chandran Kukathas

Chandran Kukathas is Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. His latest book is Immigration and Freedom.

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo

Paulina Ochoa Espejo is John L. Nau III Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. Her latest book is On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place.

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Daniel Denvir

Daniel Denvir is author of All-American Nativism and host of The Dig, a Jacobin podcast.

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Lorna Finlayson

Lorna Finlayson teaches political philosophy at the University of Essex. Her latest book is An Introduction to Feminism.

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David Pozen

David Pozen is a law professor at Columbia University and author, most recently, of The Constitution of the War on Drugs.

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Sandipto Dasgupta

Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research and author of Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony.

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Aaron Shakow

Aaron Shakow is a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard. A longtime member of Partners In Health and former advisor to the World Health Organization, he is coeditor of Privilege and Impunity: The Struggle for Accountability in Global Health.

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Shiri Pasternak

Shiri Pasternak is a professor of criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and a steering committee member of the Jewish Faculty Network.

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