Jonathan Weisman is a journalist and author. He has covered politics, government and economics for more than 30 years, the last 13 at The New York Times. He is currently a national editor based in Chicago, after spending 25 years in Washington, D.C. He is the author of a novel, 'No. 4 Imperial Lane', and the non fiction book, '(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump'.

Jane Eisner recently completed an appointment as Director of Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. For more than a decade, she was The Forward's editor-in-chief, the first woman to hold the position at America's foremost editorial and news organization. Prior to her work at The Forward, Eisner held executive editorial and news positions at The Philadelphia Inquirer for 25 years. She has taught at Wesleyan University and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She was the Founding Executive Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, from 2000 to 2003; and from 2003 to 2006 she served as Research Director. Kellerman has also held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, Uppsala, and Dartmouth. She also served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Fairleigh Dickinson, and as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the University of Maryland. [Harvard.edu](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/barbara-kellerman "Barbara Killerman")