Philip Klinkner is an expert on American politics, including parties and elections, race relations, Congress and the presidency. He is the former director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. Klinkner has written extensively on a variety of topics related to American politics. His books include The Losing Parties: Out-Party...

Noah Hurowitz is a journalist based in New York City and the author of "El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord." His work has appeared in New York Magazine, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, and many more.

Dan Biddle is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose nationally acclaimed work at The Philadelphia Inquirer won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for outstanding coverage of legal issues. He co-authored Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, a groundbreaking biography about the courageous...

Michael J. Socolow is the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine and is a media historian whose research centers upon America’s original radio networks in the 1920s and 1930s. His scholarship on media history has appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, The Journal of...

Keerti Gopal is a New York City-based reporter covering activism and grassroots mobilization in the climate movement. She is a National Geographic Explorer and has completed fellowships with Fulbright, the Solutions Journalism Network, and The Lever.

Catherine Cartier is an MA candidate in Global Journalism & Near Eastern Studies at NYU. Prior to that, she worked as a consultant for the Centre for Information Resilience’s project Afghan Witness and at C4ADS in Washington, D.C., where she used public records in Arabic and English to investigate financial...

Jamil Smith is the editor-in-chief of The Emancipator. An incisive opinion writer, television producer, and cultural critic, Smith has primarily covered the intersection of politics, culture, and identity during his decades in media. He also co-hosted “One Year Later,” a limited radio series for KCRW, as well as several podcasts....

Andrew Pantazi edits and reports for The Tributary. He previously worked as a reporter at The Florida Times-Union where he helped organize the newsroom's union with the NewsGuild-CWA. He is a Jacksonville native and raising his two sons in the city. You can contact him at Andrew.Pantazi@JaxTrib.org.

Mollie Cohen is an assistant professor of Political Science and faculty member in the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program. Previously, she was an assistant professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia and a research fellow at the LAPOP Lab. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Vanderbilt...

Xiomara Moore is a Columbia Journalism School/Institute for Nonprofit News reporting fellow based in Austin. Raised in Delaware, she has written articles about education, agriculture, local businesses, and underrepresented communities for Delaware Public Media and Delaware State News. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Delaware...