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Lawrence R. Jacobs (born March 6, 1959) is an American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. He was appointed the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs in 2005 and holds the McKnight Presidential Chair. Jacobs has written or edited, alone or collaboratively, 17 books and over 100 scholarly articles in addition to numerous reports and media essays on American democracy, national and Minnesota elections, political communications, health care reform, and economic inequality. His latest book is Democracy Under Fire: Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History. In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_R._Jacobs

Paul Waldau is an educator-scholar-activist working at the intersection of animal studies, ethics, religion, law and cultural studies. He is the Senior Faculty member at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, for the two-year on-line Master of Science program in Anthrozoology. The website for this program is

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He is also currently (Spring 2014) the Bob Barker Visiting Associate Professor of Animal Law. He also teaches Harvard University's Summer Term online course "Animals: Religion and Ethics."

Paul has completed five books. Oxford University Press published his most recent book, "Animal Studies" in February 2013, as well as his fourth book, "Animal Rights," in 2011. OUP also published his first book in 2001, "The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals." In 2006, Columbia University Press published "A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics", a major edited collection done in conjunction with Professor Kimberley Patton of Harvard Divinity School. In 2008 Paul co-edited "An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-being of Elephants in Captivity", which was published by Tufts University's Center for Animals and Public Policy.

A former trial lawyer and partner in a major California law firm, Paul left the practice of law to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy degree at University of Oxford. He then was a post-doctoral Senior Fellow at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religion. He has also directed reading groups in animal law at Yale Law School. From 2004 through 2008 Paul was the Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is also the President of the Religion and Animals Institute.

More details are available at www.paulwaldau.com and www. religionandanimals.org

James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the University of Kent and Research Associate at the London School of Economics.

His books focus on conflict, peace, and security in Southeast Europe, secession, and conflict management. His most recent book is a co-authored introductory guide to secession and state creation published by Oxford University Press.

As well as his academic work, he has advised governments and international organisations, including the Council of Europe, the EU, and the UN. He has also worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was a member of the British delegation at the 2017 UN-sponsored Cyprus settlement talks in Switzerland.

He holds a BSc(econ) from London University and an MA and PhD in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent. He speaks Greek and has lived in Greece and Cyprus.

He also has a YouTube channel exploring international relations, conflict, security, and statehood:

http://www.youtube.com/c/JamesKerLindsay

Roderic Ai Camp is Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College and serves on the Advisory Board of the Mexican Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author of four books on China and the editor or co-editor of several more, including most recently Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, which contains chapters by both fellow academics and such acclaimed journalists as Peter Hessler, Leslie T. Chang, Evan Osnos, and Ian Johnson. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He is also the Asia editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society, and a co-founder of the "China Beat" blog.

I covered Spain's transition to democracy for The Times of London between 1975 and 1978 and I then joined the Financial Times and was based in Mexico between 1978 and 1984 covering Mexico, Central America and Cuba. I returned to Madrid in 1986 when I left the FT. Since then I have written 20 books on various countries, mainly Spain. I have written on Spain and Turkey for Spain's Real Instituto Elcano since the think tank was founded in 2002. I also contribute opinion pieces to El País and ABC and have a column in the online newspaper El Imparcial.

As a journalist Alex Prud’homme has covered subjects ranging from from French cuisine to Monster Trucks, biotech, terrorism, energy, water, art, and business for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Talk, People, and Time.

As an author, he has written seven books, most notably as co-author of Julia Child’s 2006 memoir, My Life in France, a #1 NYT best-seller which inspired half the film “Julie & Julia,” and won the Literary Food Writing Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).

Prud'homme's 2011 book, The Ripple Effect: the Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, was published by Scribner, and inspired Participant Media’s 2012 documentary film “Last Call at the Oasis.”

In 2012, Prud'homme wrote Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know, for Oxford University Press.

In 2016, Knopf published The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act, Prud'homme's dramatic account of how Julia left “The French Chef” and classical French cuisine to re-Americanize herself as "Julia Child," reached the peak of her success and suffered her darkest moments, while finding her true voice in the 1970s.

In 2017, Thames & Hudson published Our Lives in France: the Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child, a book of Paul Child’s evocative black-and-white images of Paris and Marseille in 1948-54. It is a visual companion to My Life in France, told from Paul’s perspective. Katie Pratt edited the images, while Prud’homme wrote the text.

Prud’homme’s latest project is a history of food at the White House, to be published by Knopf. It examines key meals that helped shape America, and the central (if overlooked) role food has played in the nation's history, from George Washington and his slave-chef Hercules to the omnivorous Obamas and the fast-food friendly Trumps.

Hi! My formal biography and links to all my books and articles are at www.pwsinger.com but the short version is that I am someone who loves to read, and hopes to write books that people love to read too.

You can also follow me on twitter @peterwsinger

Allan Friedman is a Visiting Scholar at the the Cyber Security Policy Research Institute in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at George Washington University, where he works on cybersecurity policy.

Wearing the hats of both a technologist and a policy scholar, his work spans computer science, public policy and the social sciences, and has addressed issues ranging from electronic medical records to telecommunications policy. His recent work has focused on the economic aspects of information security.

Throughout his career, he has focused on explaining complex technical problems to policy audiences, and identifying empirically-grounded technical and policy solutions. Friedman has shared his expertise on cyber security and information technology policy with a range of print, radio, web, and TV outlets. He has contributed as a technology and policy expert for a range of organizations, including the Department of Homeland Security, the World Economic Forum, and the OECD. On the research side, he has served on academic program committees and editorial committees of multiple computer science and technology policy journals and research conferences. In 2013, he chaired the Workshop on Economics of Information Security.

Prior to joining CSPRI, Friedman was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the research director for the Center for Technology Innovation. Before moving to Washington, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University Computer Science department, where he worked on cyber security policy, privacy-enhancing technologies and the economics of information security. Friedman was also a Fellow at the Kenndy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he worked on the Minerva Project for Cyber International Relations. He has also received fellowships from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the Harvard Program on Networked Governance. He has a degree in Computer Science from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Goldie Blumenstyk is one of the nation's most respected higher-education journalists. As a reporter and an editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education since 1988, Goldie has covered a wide range of topics, including distance education, the Internet boom and bust, state politics, university governance, and fund raising. She is nationally known for her expertise on for-profit higher education, college finances, and university patents and the commercialization of academic research. She has reported for The Chronicle from Peru, China, and several countries in Europe, and her stories have received numerous awards, including first prize from the Education Writers Association for 2011 for beat reporting on the Business of Higher Education and as a contributor to the The Chronicle's package,"The Gates Effect," awarded first prize for investigative reporting in 2013.

Goldie speaks frequently at higher-education industry conferences and appears often as a guest on radio and public-television shows. Before joining The Chronicle, she covered government issues and City Hall at The Orlando Sentinel.

She has a B.A. (History) from Colgate University, and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

For more information, see: GoldieBlumenstyk.com

F. Bailey Norwood has a PhD in economics and is an associate professor at Oklahoma State University, where he researches farm animal welfare and teaches agricultural economics courses.

His novel, Matrona's Four Children, was written out of a need for fiction that educates while it entertains, with the goal of encouraging economic and historical literacy, as well as a love of reading. Most other novels about economics are either mean-spirited towards certain political flavors or have a "cheesy" plot. Bailey wanted an engrossing novel that helped both liberals and conservatives contribute toward the common good while also living a happy, meaningful life.

Stephen Hinshaw grew up in Columbus, Ohio and attended Harvard and UCLA. A professor of psychology (UC Berkeley) and Psychiatry (UC San Francisco), he is an international presence in clinical psychology/mental health, with over 320 articles/chapters and 12 books. He received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001; his Teaching Company (‘Great Lecture’) series, “Origins of the Human Mind,” appeared in 2010. He has been recognized by the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (2015), the James McKeen Cattell Award from the Association for Psychological Science (2016) for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research, and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award (2017) from the Society for Research in Child Development. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Kelly Campbell; they have three sons. His newest book, "Another Kind of Madness," chronicles his father's recurring mental illness and the doctor-enforced silence surrounding it, plus the huge need to combat stigma.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_P._Hinshaw

When I was 11 years old, Archie Comics paid me $10 for an essay I wrote about my Miniature Schnauzer. I was hooked on reporting from that moment on.

A decade or so later, after five years of covering local issues for the San Jose Mercury News, I won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for my part in a series about corruption by Philippines rulers Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. From 1987-99 I covered Latin America, first from Mexico City and then from Rio de Janeiro for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Since that time I've been working independently, including authoring and co-authoring 10 non-fiction books. I live in Marin County with my husband and two dogs.

Sarah Kreps is an associate professor in the Department of Government and an adjunct professor of law at Cornell University. Her research focuses on issues of international security, particularly questions of conflict and cooperation, international law and institutions, alliance politics, and nuclear proliferation. Dr. Kreps received her B.A. from Harvard University, her MSc from Oxford, and her PhD from Georgetown University. Prior to graduate school, she served on active duty in the United States Air Force.

Shira Tarrant, PhD is a nationally recognized expert on sexual politics. Her books include The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford), Gender, Sex, and Politics, Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power; When Sex Became Gender (Routledge), Men and Feminism (Seal Press), Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style (SUNY), and New Views on Pornography (Praeger).

Shira Tarrant's writing also appears with AlterNet, In These Times, Jezebel, the Ms. Magazine Blog, Bitch, BUST Magazine, Huffington Post, and other publications. Her commentary on gender issues, masculinity, pop culture, and sexual politics have been featured on global media including the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, NBC, Forbes, KCAL 9 News, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Sydney Morning Herald, and on radio stations in Los Angeles, New York, Berkeley, and Houston.

Dr. Tarrant received her PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. Read more at http://shiratarrant.com and follow her on twitter @shiratarrant.

Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of History of Education and the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His books examine schools and universities across space and time, focusing especially on the ways they have addressed sex, religion, free speech and other controversial topics. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school social studies teacher, Zimmerman is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other popular newspapers and magazines. Zimmerman taught for 20 years at New York University, where he received the university's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008.

Jerry Kaplan, PhD, is widely known as an Artificial Intelligence expert, serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, educator, bestselling author, and futurist. He invented several ground-breaking technologies including handheld tablet computers, online auctions, and electronic musical instruments. Currently, he is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University where he teaches social and economic impact of Artificial Intelligence in Stanford's top-ranked Computer Science Department.

A renowned Silicon Valley veteran, Jerry Kaplan founded several storied technology companies over his 35-year career, two of which became public companies. Kaplan may be best known for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry as the founding CEO of GO Corporation in 1987. Prior to GO, Kaplan co-founded Teknowledge, Inc., one of the first Artificial Intelligence companies to commercialize Expert Systems, which went public in 1986. In 1994, Kaplan co-founded Onsale, Inc., the world's first Internet auction website, which went public in 1997. In 2004, he pioneered the emerging market for social games by starting Winster Corporation, where he served as CEO for eight years.

Jerry Kaplan has published over twenty refereed papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. He holds a BA in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jerry Kaplan is the author of four books, including the best-selling classic "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" (Houghton-Mifflin). Selected by Business Week as one of the top ten business books of 1995, Startup was optioned to Sony Pictures. "Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (Yale University Press) was honored by The Economist as one of the top ten science and technology books of 2015. His book "Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford University Press) was a 2016 Amazon new release #1 best seller in Artificial Intelligence. His latest book, "Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford University Press) is slated for release in the spring of 2024.

Jerry Kaplan has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Red Herring, and Upside. He is a frequent commentary contributor to major newspapers and magazines. He received the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Northern California; served on the Governor's Electronic Commerce Advisory Council Member under Pete Wilson, Governor of California (1999); and received an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from California International Business University, San Diego, California (2004).

Jorge Duany, Ph.D., is Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.

Born in Cuba and raised in Panama and Puerto Rico, Dr. Duany previously served as Acting Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (UPR). He also served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the journal "Revista de Ciencias Sociales" at UPR. He has held visiting research and teaching appointments at several U.S. universities, including Harvard, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, specializing in anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University.

Dr. Duany has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the United States. He has also written about Cuban cultural identity on the island and in the diaspora, especially as expressed in literature, music, and religion. He has belonged to the editorial boards of academic journals such as "Cuban Studies," "Latino Studies," "CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies," "Caribbean Studies," "Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies," and "New West Indian Guide."

Dr. Duany is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 22 books, including "Obra slelecta" (2021); "Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora" (2019); "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (2017); "Un pueblo disperso: Dimensiones sociales y culturales de la diáspora cubana" (2014); "Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States" (2011); "The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States" (2002); and "Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity" (1997).

Judy Foreman is a former nationally syndicated health columnist whose “Health Sense” columns have appeared regularly in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News and other national and international outlets. For years, she also wrote the Globe’s popular short feature, “Health Answers.”

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College, served in the Peace Corps in Brazil for three years, then got a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 2001 to 2004, she was a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School and, for most of this time, was a scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Research Center. She has also been the host of a weekly, call-in radio show on Healthtalk.com and has won more than 50 journalism awards.

Her book on chronic pain, “A Nation in Pain – Healing Our Biggest Health Problem,” is due out in January, 2014 from Oxford University Press.

Leslie P. Francis, Ph.D., J.D., holds joint appointments as Alfred C. Emery professor of law and professor of philosophy, and adjunct appointments in Family and Preventive Medicine (in the Division of Public Health), Internal Medicine (in the Division of Medical Ethics), and Political Science, at the University of Utah. She was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor in 2009 and was initial director of University of Utah Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences from 2015-2022. Professor Francis was President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2015-2016. From 2015-2019 she served as the elected Secretary-General of the International Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. She is a past member of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and past co-chair of the Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security Subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. She regularly provides pro bono representation for people who are the subject of guardianship petitions through a special program of the Utah State Bar and state courts.

Professor Francis's books include States of Health: Federalism and Bioethics, (co-authored with John Francis; Oxford University Press 2024); Sustaining Surveillance: The Importance of Information for Public Health (co-authored with John Francis; Springer, 2021), The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease (co-authored with Battin, Jacobson, & Smith; Oxford University Press, 2010; reissued with a new preface 2021) and Privacy: What Everyone Needs to Know (co-authored with John Francis; Oxford, 2017). She edited the Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics (Oxford University Press, January 2017) and is the author of many papers in the areas of disability law and ethics, privacy and data use, justice, and bioethics.

Michael Raymer is the author of two books - Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know (2017), and The Silicon Web: Physics for the Internet Age (2009), which can be read as "popular" general audience books, or as textbooks for a new kind of college course for non-science students.

Michael Raymer is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon, indicating his broad activities in science research and education. He began his career as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, and later moved to Oregon, where he helped develop and direct the research center now called the Center for Optical, Molecular and Quantum Science. His research interests are quantum mechanics, quantum information science, and nonlinear optics and laser physics. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He has served as a member of the Editorial Boards of Physical Review Letters and Journal of Modern Optics, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the OSA.

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham is a writer and historian of modern China. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University (B.A., 2004), Yale University (M.A., 2006), the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies (graduate certificate, 2008), and the University of California, Irvine (Ph.D., 2014), as well as Chinese language programs in Beijing and Hangzhou.

Maura was the editor-in-chief of The China Beat, a blog based at UC Irvine, between 2009 and 2012, and associate editor of ChinaFile during a fellowship at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in 2011-12. After receiving her Ph.D., Maura joined the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York to co-direct its Public Intellectuals Program; in 2016, she moved to Ann Arbor, MI to become the first Digital Media Manager of the Association for Asian Studies.

As a writer, her work has appeared at the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. She is the co-author (with Jeffrey Wasserstrom) of the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2018.

Michael J. Gerhardt is the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and the Director of the UNC Center on Law and Government at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has degrees from Yale University (BA), Londson School of Economics (M.Sc.) and the University of Chicago (JD). He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife Deborah and their three sons Ben, Daniel, and Noah.

P.K. Newby, ScD, MPH, MS (“The Nutrition Doctor”; pknewby.com) is a scientist, science communicator, and gastronome whose mission is to harness her passion for science and food to create a healthier and more sustainable world, deliciously, in all the ways she can—while cutting through all the junk-science and nutrition nonsense out there. Dr. Newby is one of the world’s experts on total diet: when it comes to what you eat, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. She's also on the faculty at Harvard University, where she's an award-winning educator. Her passion for nutrition stems from a life-long love affair that include two years as a cook in a vegetarian café. She loves whipping up fabulous dishes that celebrate globally inspired, plant-based cuisine—and was one of the “best undiscovered cooks” and last woman standing with domestic goddess Nigella Lawson on ABC’s "The Taste". Follow her on social media and salivate over culinary creations on her blog "Cooking & Eating the PK Way". Her hobbies include traveling, yoga, marathon-ing, reading, and entertaining. And, of course, eating and drinking with family and friends.

I am an associate professor of political science at the University of Alabama. My research interests include demography, electoral behavior, political parties, immigration policy, the radical right, and the conservative movement in America.

I earned my Ph.D in political science from the University of Houston and my undergraduate degrees in political science and print journalism from Central Washington University.

Before entering graduate school, I worked in politics in Washington, DC, for multiple groups and individuals. While my teaching and academic research keep me busy, I am also an active consultant and media commentator (and always looking for new projects).

While I am a proud native of the Pacific Northwest, I presently enjoy life with my wife and children here in the heart of Dixie.

Visit my website at www.georgehawley.com.

Dr. Nofsinger is one of the world’s leading experts in behavioral finance. He has authored/coauthored fourteen finance trade books, textbooks, and scholarly books that have been translated into eleven languages. He also a prolific scholar who has published over 70 articles in prestigious scholarly journals and practitioner journals. Dr. Nofsinger is also a frequent speaker on behavioral and financial topics.

Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Professor of Political Science. He is also the director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Before joining UCLA, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University and the co-director of Northeastern University’s Middle East Center. An award-winning teacher, he has also been a professor at the City University of New York and Bowdoin College. He has had visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and his B.A. from Oxford University. His research focuses on the conflict over Israel-Palestine, Israeli politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Israel relations, American Jewry’s relationship with Israel, Jewish politics, and contemporary antisemitism. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (Palgrave, 2006), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016), and most recently, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly and Ha’aretz.

Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein is the author of the Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times and co-author (with Yngvild Olsen) of The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Dr. Sharfstein has served as the Health Commissioner for Baltimore City, the Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and as the Secretary of Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Dr. Sharfstein is an elected fellow of both the National Academy of Medicine and of the National Academy of Public Administration (2013). His awards have included the Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award from the American Public Health Association (1994), Public Official of the Year from Governing Magazine (2008) and the Circle of Commendation Award from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (2013).

Nolan McCarty is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs. His research interests include U.S. politics, democratic political institutions, and political game theory. He is the recipient of the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution and the John M. Olin Fellowship in Political Economy. He has co-authored or edited five books: Political Game Theory (2006, Cambridge University Press with Adam Meirowitz), Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (2006 and 2016, MIT Press with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal), Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy (2013, Princeton University Press with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal), Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019, Oxford University Press), and Can America Govern Itself? (2019, Cambridge University Press with Frances Lee). In 2010, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dennis Johnson is professor emeritus, George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. For most of his career, Dennis was a university professor, but for a decade he took a break from teaching and writing; he worked on Capitol Hill and later became a political consultant. His writings have concentrated on the history of American public policy and the professionalization of modern campaigns. Two new books will be coming out in mid 2022. Campaigns, Elections, and the Threat to Democracy, 2d ed (Oxford) and American Public Policy: Federal Domestic Policy Achievements and Failures, 1901-2022 (Routledge). Dennis has also written Democracy for Hire: A History of American Political Consulting (Oxford, 2016), a major contribution to the study of political consulting and its impact on campaigns and elections. He also is co-editor, with his GSPM colleague Lara M. Brown, of Campaigning for President 2016 (Routledge, 2017). Dennis lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife Pat and their dog Snickers. For fun, he tries to read and write Chinese and learn how to juggle. Much harder than writing books!

Joel Slemrod is a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research, an interdisciplinary research center housed at the Business School. In 1983-84 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and in 1984-85 he was the senior economist for tax policy at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He’s been at Michigan since 1987.

Professor Slemrod has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and several foreign governments, as well as to Marriott International and Merck & Co., Inc. He has been a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers, and has testified before the Congress on domestic and international taxation issues. From 1992 to 1998 Professor Slemrod was editor of the National Tax Journal, and from 2006 to 2010 was co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. In 2005-6, he was president of the National Tax Association, and from 2015 to 2018 president of the Interenational Institute of Public Finance. He is co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes, whose fifth edition was published in 2017, and with Len Burman of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know, whose second edition was published in 2020. His latest book is Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisom through the Ages, co-authored with Michael Keen, which will appear in 2021. In 2012 he received from the National Tax Association its most prestigious award, the Daniel M. Holland Medal for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice of public finance.

Kristin A. Goss is the Susan B. King Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where she studies the reasons why everyday people do - or do not - engage in public life. A native of Denver, she holds a BA and PhD from Harvard and an MPP from Duke.

Sheila A.M. Rauch, Ph.D., ABPP, co-led design and now serves as Deputy Director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and is Director of Mental Health Research and Program Evaluation at the Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center. Dr. Rauch has been developing programs, conducting research and providing PTSD and Anxiety Disorders treatment for over 20 years with the goal to improve access to effective mental health care. Her research focuses on examination of mechanisms involved in the development and treatment of PTSD and improving access to effective interventions. She has led several PTSD treatment outcome and mechanisms trials including pharmaceutical and therapy trials focused on moving interventions for PTSD into medical and primary care settings. She has published over 220 peer-reviewed scholarly articles as well as many chapters and several books on anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her work examines neurobiology and factors involved in the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders, psychosocial factors in medical settings, and the relation between physical health and anxiety. She was awarded membership in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Scientific Council of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

Arthur R. Kroeber is head of research at Gavekal, a financial-services firm based in Hong Kong, founder of the China-focused Gavekal Dragonomics research service, and editor of China Economic Quarterly. He divides his time between Beijing and New York. Before founding Dragonomics in 2002, he spent fifteen years as a financial and economic journalist in China and South Asia. He is a senior non-resident fellow of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center, an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. His book China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is published by Oxford University Press in April 2016.

Dave Deamer completed undergraduate studies in chemistry at Duke University in 1961, and a Ph.D. at the Ohio State University School of Medicine. After post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley, Deamer became a faculty member at UC Davis in 1967, then moved to UC Santa Cruz in 1994. He has been a visiting professor at Bristol University, Australian National University as a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. Deamer's primary research interests include nanopore sequencing of DNA and the origin of cellular life.

Deamer is the author of First Life, published by the University of California Press, and in 2017 submitted a manuscript with the title Assembling Life to Oxford University Press. Both books describe a new approach to understanding the origin of life that is based on the author's visits to volcanic regions in Kamchatka, Iceland, Hawaii and northern California. Deamer argues that the most plausible site for the origin of cellular life four billion years ago would be fresh water hydrothermal fields associated with volcanic land masses rather than the salty ocean, as most researchers believe.

Deamer co-authored The Hunt for FOXP5 with Wallace Kaufman, his college room mate at Duke. This novel is about Avalon Murphy, a young Kazakh girl adopted by Professor Michelle Murphy at the University of Oregon. Avalon was born with a mutation called FOXP5 which makes her the first member of a new human species. Avalon is kidnapped during a visit to Kazahkstan and Michelle must find a way to rescue her daughter.

Terryl Givens did his graduate work in intellectual history (Cornell) and comparative literature (UNC Chapel Hill). He is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature at the University of Richmond, where he held the Jabez Bostwick chair. Givens’s work has been called “provocative reading” by The New York Times and includes some twenty titles, including a two-volume history of Latter-day Saint theology: Wresting the Angel, and Feeding the Flock, a history of the idea of premortal life (When Souls had Wings)--all with Oxford University Press--and several studies of the Book of Mormon. Professor Givens has also been a commentator on CNN, NPR, and in the PBS/Frontline documentary, The Mormons. As of 2019 he is the Neal A. Maxwell Senior Research Fellow at the BYU Maxwell Institute in Provo. With Fiona Givens, he authored The God Who Weeps, The Christ Who Heals, The Crucible of Doubt, and most recently, All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything in Between. His biography of Eugene England will be released in 2021 from UNC Press.

Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA, (she/they) is a psychiatrist committed to improving mental health through education and resource creation. She is the Chief Medical Officer at the Jed Foundation (JED), a nonprofit focused on emotional health and suicide prevention for teens and young adults. Laura has provided thousands of patients with crisis intervention and mental health support in over ten different emergency rooms in New York City. Much of her career has focused on LGBTQ mental health, and she continues to see clients at Hetrick-Martin Institute for LGBTQIA+ Youth.

Nelson is an expert in business law and business ethics. She is a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, and she was the first tenure-track appointment in a U.S. law school specifically to teach business ethics and to develop law-school curricula around the subject.

Nelson has spent nearly fifteen years teaching at universities across the country including Villanova Law School, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas Business School of the University of California at Berkeley, Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, and the Mihaylo School at Cal State Fullerton.

Prior to her work in academia, Professor Nelson served as staff counsel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and she clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the Honorable William H. Yohn Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She also worked as a deputy district attorney and as a business litigator in Denver, Colorado. Nelson is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was the Supreme Court Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with honors and distinction in the major from Yale.

Duke University Professor, foreign policy scholar/author/DC policy experience. Latest book, 5th edition of American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294975953, good for university courses and also my Oct 2013 Coursera MOOC, "21st Century American Foreign Policy".

Kevin Macpherson is an Improvement Specialist on WestEd's improvement science team. He has served as a classroom teacher and district-level special education administrator. Macpherson currently works with state education agencies within the National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI). He earned his Ph.D. in Special Education from UC Berkeley, where he researched how social-psychological factors shape student outcomes.

Bonnie Steinbock received her PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley (1974). She taught at the College of Wooster before moving to the Department of Philosophy at the University at Albany (1977-2014). A Fellow of the Hastings Center since 1986, she is the author of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos (Oxford University Press, 1992, 2011) and, with her husband, Paul Menzel, Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2023). She has written 70 articles, many blog posts, and edited or co-edited Killing and Letting Die (1980, 1994), Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice (2006), the Oxford Handbook of Bioethics (2008), and Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 4th - 8th editions.

She had a scholarly residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, in Italy (2008). She was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand (2015), and has held Distinguished Visiting Professorships, at Santa Clara University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Monash University.

Matt Zwolinski is a philosopher and a leading authority on libertarian political theory, exploitation, and the idea of a Universal Basic Income. With John Tomasi, he is the author of The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (Princeton, 2023). And with Miranda Fleischer, the author of Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2023).