Leadership & Staff

Bradley Abelow is a consultant, currently working primarily on advising clients around the politics of climate change. He has worked in government and business.

Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, reporter, columnist and television analyst. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, a columnist for The Daily Beast and an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Alexander Morgan Capron holds the rank of University Professor at the University of Southern California where he occupies the Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics at the Gould School of Law, is a Professor of Medicine and Law at the Keck School of Medicine.

Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.

Melissa Harris-Perry is the Presidential Endowed Chair in Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University. There she is the Executive Director of the Pro Humanitate Institute and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South.

Lewis Kaden is currently Senior Advisor at TGG Group, the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance, and the Center on the Legal Profession at HLS and a Senior Fellow at Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School.

Bob Kerrey is a former U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska, and recently completed his tenure as the seventh President of The New School.

John B. King, Jr. is the president and CEO of The Education Trust, a national nonprofit organization that seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps, from preschool through college. King served as the U.S. secretary of education from 2016 to 2017 as a member of President Barack Obama’s administration.

Anne Milgram is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU School of Law, where she is building a Criminal Justice Innovation Lab. Prior to joining NYU, she served as New Jersey’s attorney general, where she headed the 9,000-person Department of Law and Public Safety.

Congressman George Miller spent forty years in Congress representing California’s 7th and 11 districts (1975 to 2015). During his distinguished career in Congress he championed legislation to expand education opportunities, strengthen worker protections, promote a cleaner environment, and expand access to health care.

Alicia Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.

Richard Ravitch is a politician and businessman who served as the seventy-fifth lieutenant governor of New York from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to the position in July 2009 by New York governor David Paterson.

Sonal Shah is Professor and the founding Executive Director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown University. Shah, an economist and entrepreneur, has spent her career focused on actionable innovation in the public and private sectors.

Damon A. Silvers is the Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO. He joined the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1997.

Harvey I. Sloane, M.D., is a public health physician with extensive grassroots and organizational experience.