Joanne Freeman is a renowned US historian and public intellectual with expertise in early American political history and democracy more broadly. She is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University,  and a frequent public speaker and commentator on television and podcasts; in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic (among others); and on her YouTube channel. Her most recent book is The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.

Craig Yirush, Associate Professor at University of California Los Angeles, is an historian of Anglo-American political and legal thought. His first book, Settlers, Liberty, and Empire (Cambridge, 2011) explored the colonial origins of American political theory; his current work examines how indigenous people used law to resist settler colonialism. Yirush teaches courses on the American colonies, American Revolution, and the intellectual history of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. His co-edited volume, Exploring the Bounds of Liberty: Political Writings of Colonial British America from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution (Liberty Fund, 2018) was awarded ‘Outstanding Academic Title’ from Choice magazine.

Jaime Herrera Beutler is a former Republican congresswoman and Washington state legislator with years of experience building and leading bipartisan coalitions As Washington state’s first Hispanic to hold federal office, she served on the House Appropriations Committee, as ranking member of the subcommittee on Legislative Branch, and as a member of the Joint Economic Committee. A sought-after spokesperson, Beutler has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Atlantic, Marie Claire, TODAY Show, CNN, Fox & Friends and other major media outlets. Recognized as one of “40 under 40” she also received numerous awards for her bipartisanship, legislative leadership, and commitments to children’s health and conservation.

Jennifer Nicoll Victor is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Mason University’s Schar School Policy and Government. She studies the U.S. Congress, legislative organization and behavior, political parties, campaign finance, and interest groups, and is currently writing a book, Root and Branch: The Network Origins of Political Capital in the US Congress. Recipient of a 2019 Teaching Excellence Award, she formerly directed the Schar School’s first-year residential learning community, “Democracy Lab.” Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Politico, The Conversation, and a variety of academic blogs. Professor Victor is Board Vice Chair for OpenSecrets, a non-profit dedicated to following money in politics.

Reeve Huston is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University,  where he taught US Political History and the History of Capitalism. His research focuses on the emergence of two-party democracy in the United States. His books include Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York, Origins of Jacksonian Democracy: American Political Practices, 1812-1840 and the forthcoming Democratic Aspiration, Democratic Discontent: The Triumph of Mass Politics in the United States, 1815-1840.

Abigail Dym is an Assistant Professor of Education Policy at Bowdoin College, where she teaches courses on the politics of education, education policy, and law. Using qualitative, quantitative, and community-engaged approaches, Abigail examines the political project of civics education through the lenses of curricular policy inception, negotiation, implementation, and the experiences of teachers, students, and communities. She is a former K-12 educator and AmeriCorps volunteer. 

Vicki Hsueh is a Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University in Bellingham WA. She is the author of Hybrid Constitutions: Making and Unmaking Power and Privilege in Colonial America, and articles on colonialism, politics, and empire in Contemporary Political Theory, Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, and the Journal of the History of Ideas. Her current project, Making Care: From Democratic Refusal to Affective Worldmaking, focuses on health care movements in the U.S to examines the politics of refusal and democratic worldmaking.