Sean Zeigler is a senior political scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. In 2018, he led a RAND study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) on cluster munitions.

Phil Klay is the author of the book, “Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless Invisible War.” Klay is a past winner of the National Book Award for fiction and a veteran of the war in Iraq.

Meredith Hindley is is a writer, historian, and author of "Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II." Her work has appeared in Humanities, New York Times,...

Colleen Honigsberg is an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, whose research is focused on the empirical study of corporate and securities law.

Katrina Northrop is a reporter at The Wire China, based in New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Providence Journal, and SupChina.

James Kirchick is a reporter, foreign correspondent, columnist, and author of the book "Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington."

Dr. Lindsey Polley is the director of defense and national security at Starburst Aerospace, where she leads strategic advisory cells that provide emergent technology solution identification for segments ...

Richard Hanania is the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and author of “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy.”

Oleksandra Matviychuk is a human rights defender who works on issues in Ukraine and the OSCE region. She heads the human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties and coordinates the work of the ini...

Lewis Sage-Passant is the Global Strategic Intelligence manager at Salesforce and a Doctoral Researcher at the UK’s Loughborough University focusing on the history, structure, capabilities, and ethics of...

Matt Zeller is a Senior Advisor with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the Co-Founder of No One Left Behind, a Truman National Security Fellow, and an adjunct fellow at the American Security ...

Col. Steven Miska is the Executive Director of First Amendment Voice, a nonpartisan effort to reinvigorate civic awareness around free expression, religious liberty, press freedom and other first amendme...

Shala leads Human Right’s First’s nationwide coordination of legal stakeholders responding to the evacuation of at-risk Afghan nationals by the U.S. government. She also oversees a pro bono program that ...

RonNell Andersen Jones is a First Amendment scholar who teaches, researches and writes on legal issues affecting the press and on the intersection between media and the courts, with a particular emphasis...

Zachary Arnold is an attorney and the analytic lead for the Emerging Technology Observatory initiative at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).

Christina Knight graduated from Stanford University and the Schwarzman Scholarship with degrees in symbolic systems artificial intelligence (B.S.), philosophy (M.A.), and global affairs (M.S.).

Katie Benner covers the Justice Department for The New York Times and she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues.

Timothy Naftali is a historian and professor of public service at New York University. He was the first federal director of the Richard Nixon library and earned accolades from historians for his efforts ...

Elizabeth M.F. Grasmeder is a foreign policy analyst and author of the article "Leaning on Legionnaires: Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers."