• Ryan Merkley is Managing Director of Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute focused on technology, media, and society. He previously served five years as Chief Executive Officer at Creative Comm...
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  • Sean Monaghan is a visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he focuses on NATO, European security, and defense. His career a...
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  • Mathieu Droin is a visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he focuses on transatlantic European security and defense...
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  • Sophia Besch is a senior fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her area of expertise is European defense policy and EU politics. Before joining Carnegie, Sophia ...
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  • Aleksandra Ryshina is an Associate in the Corporate Practice at Jenner & Block. In law school, she served as the Senior Articles Editor of the Fordham International Law Journal and previously interned at...
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  • Karam Jardaneh is a Senior Associate at Jenner & Block and a member of the firm’s Human Rights & Global Strategy and Investigations, Compliance, and Defense Practices. She has an LLM in Human Rights Law ...
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  • Rachel Alpert is a Partner at Jenner & Block, where she co-chairs the firm’s National Security and Crisis and Human Rights & Global Strategy Practices. She previously served as Chief Counsel to the US De...
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  • Ari Tolany is the Program Manager for the U.S. Program at the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), where she focuses on the arms trade and security assistance. She is a an Expert with the Forum on t...
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  • Noah Greene is the project assistant for the AI Safety and Stability Initiative at the Center for a New American Security. In this role, he conducts research on the military applications of artificial in...
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  • Kai M. Thaler is assistant professor of global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several academic articles on Nicaraguan politics and regularly provides commenta...
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  • Melanie J. Teplinsky is an adjunct professor at American University, Washington College of Law (WCL); a senior fellow in the Technology, Law and Security Program at WCL; and a faculty fellow at American ...
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  • Ryan J. Reilly is a justice reporter for NBC News.
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  • Sekou Franklin is a Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University and co-author of "Losing Power: African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics."
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  • Samar Ali is a Research Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University and co-chair of Vanderbilt's Project on Unity and American Democracy.
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  • Geoff White is an investigative journalist covering technology and organized crime and co-host of the BBC podcast, "The Lazarus Heist."
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  • Jean Lee is a journalist, co-host of the BBC podcast series, "The Lazarus Heist," and former Pyongyang Bureau Chief for the Associated Press.
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  • Polina Ivanova is a reporter for the Financial Times, covering Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, and has been an outspoken advocate for the release of Evan Gershkovich.
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  • Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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  • Brandi Buchman is a journalist covering the aftermath of of Jan. 6 including high profile trials for the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. She is a former senior staff writer at Daily Kos and a White Hous...
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  • Michel Protti is a co-Chief Privacy Officer and leads the implementation of privacy efforts across product and engineering teams at Meta.
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