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 Q. Knight recently served as senior policy adviser at the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI). Previously, she worked on AI policy in the U.S. Department of Commerce. She earned an MMSc in global a...

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."

Andrea Matwyshyn is a professor of law and Associate Dean of Innovation at Penn State Law School.

Kate Starbird is co-founder of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.

Maksym Rokmaniko is an architect, designer, entrepreneur, and director at the Center for Spatial Technologies in Kyiv.

Nick Danforth has covered U.S.-Turkish relations for the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Bipartisan ...

Jonathan Stray is a senior scientist at the Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI.

Aaron Friedberg is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and an expert on relations between China and the West.