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Alora Thomas-Lundborg, J.D., is a Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, Voting Rights Project. A graduate of Columbia Univerrsity Law School, Ms. Thomas-Lundborg practiced law in New York City, joining the ACLU in 2017. In spring 2019, she successfully argued Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute v. Householder. The U.S. Court for the Southern District of Ohio struck down the [Ohio Congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander](https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/gerrymandering/why-ohios-congressional-map-unconstitutional/) .

Bobby is the Vice President of Research & Measurement at Group Nine Media (parent company of Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis, Seeker). Bobby started his career at Nielsen in ad effectiveness research. Prior to the launch of Group Nine, Bobby led building the research offering of Thrillist focusing on branded content impact, audience measurement, advertising effectiveness, and customized experimental research. Currently, he's focusing on proving the value of branded content video distributed to social platforms, creating best practices for aligning content against audience interest profiles, and overseeing Group Nine's custom audience research panel, Laboratory Nine.

Patrick Chamorel is Senior Resident Scholar at the Stanford University Center in Washington DC. He teaches Political Science, with an emphasis on comparative American and European politics, public policy and political economy, as well as transatlantic relations. He has taught Transatlantic Relations on Stanford’s California campus as well as French Politics at the Stanford in Paris campus. Over the last few years, he has been teaching a semester course and an intensive seminar at the Reims Euro-American campus of Sciences-Po Paris. In addition to Stanford, he has taught at the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz), George Washington University, and Claremont McKenna College where he was the Crown Visiting professor of Government (2002-2005). He was a Fellow of the Institute for Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC and the Hoover Institution at Stanford, as well as a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association (Offices of Harry Reid in the U.S. Senate and Norman Mineta in the House of Representatives).

Hans von Spakovsky, J.D., is the manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a Senior Legal Fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Under the George W. Bush administration, Mr. von Spakovsky was Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and served for two years on the Federal Election Commission. He has co-authored [Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk](https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Counting-Fraudsters-Bureaucrats-Your/dp/1594036187/) and [Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department](https://www.amazon.com/Obamas-Enforcer-Holders-Justice-Department/dp/0062320920/).  

Avidan Cover, J.D. is Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy. Cover teaches in the Civil Rights and Human Rights Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, where he supervises students representing clients in civil lawsuits primarily in the areas of civil rights, including freedom of speech, unlawful force, and housing discrimination as well as documenting human rights abuses. He also teaches courses in constitutional law, race and American law and international humanitarian law. Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX News and Court TV.

Reginald Oh, J.D., is a prolific constitutional law scholar whose work focuses on distributive justice — the ways in which justice succeeds or fails when gender and race are involved. He has in the past two years spoken at more than 30 national and international conferences. For example, he presented “Race, Racism and Belonging” at the International Congress for Law and Mental Health in Padua, Italy. At Cleveland-Marshall, Professor Oh teaches seminars on the Fourteenth Amendment and on Legal Issues in Education. His articles, such as “Interracial Marriage in the Shadows of Jim Crow: Racial Segregation as Racial and Gender Subordination,” focus on history, politics, linguistic analysis and race and gender. “Regulating White Desire: Anti-miscegenation, Racial Segregation and the Protection of White Supremacy,” which examines the gendered nature of racial segregation, is forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review.

Martin Lukacs is a journalist living in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent.

Climate activist with Extinction Rebellion.

James P. Pfiffner is University Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. His major areas of expertise are the Presidency, American National Government, and Public Management. He has lectured on these topics at universities in Europe and throughout the United States as well as at the Federal Executive Institute, the National War College, the U.S. Military Academy, and at the State, Justice, and Defense Departments. In 2007 he was the S.T. Lee Professorial Fellow in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has written or edited a dozen books on the presidency and American National Government, including _[The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running](https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Presidency-Hitting-Running-Government/dp/0700607692)_ and _[Power Play: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution](https://smile.amazon.com/Power-Play-Bush-Presidency-Constitution/dp/0815770448/)_. He has also published many articles on the presidency and public management in professional journals, reference works, and the popular press. He has been interviewed regularly by print and electronic media. Professor Pfiffner has been a panel member or on project staffs of the Volcker Commission, the National Academy of Public Administration (of which he is an elected member), the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the National Academy of Sciences. His professional experience includes service in the Director’s Office of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (1980-81), and he has been a member of the faculty at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Fullerton. In 1990 he received the Distinguished Faculty Award at George Mason University. He is listed in Who’s Who In America. While serving with the 25th Infantry Division (1/8 Artillery) in 1970 he received the Army Commendation of Medal for Valor in Vietnam and Cambodia.  

Nelson Lund has written widely in the field of constitutional law. He has also published essays on employment discrimination and civil rights, the legal regulation of medical ethics, and the application of economic analysis to legal institutions and legal ethics. He holds an M.A. in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. Professor Lund attended the University of Chicago School of Law, where he served as executive editor of its law review and chapter chairman of the Federalist Society. He clerked for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patrick Higginbotham and for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. At George Mason, he teaches Constitutional Law, Legislation, Employment Discrimination, State and Local Government, and seminars on the Second Amendment.

Lawrence Rosenthal has written extensively on first amendment issues, criminal law, criminal procedure, and civil rights. He continues to engage in litigation in the United States Supreme Court and other appellate courts, usually on a pro bono basis. At Harvard Law School he was the articles editor of its law review. He clerked for Judge Prentice Marshall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for Justice John Paul Stevens. Professor Rosenthal served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, specializing in organized crime and public corruption prosecutions. At Chapman University, he teaches Civil Rights, Constitutional Argument, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Local Government Law.

Lee D. Hoffer is an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hoffer’s research focuses on understanding the political, social, cultural, and clinical contexts related to illicit drug use. This work has informed a range of topics, including; HIV risk behaviors of drug injectors, diagnostic nosology for substance use disorders, understanding trends in drug use, as well as drug policy and intervention studies. More recently, Dr. Hoffer’s research examines how illicit drug markets, and the acquisition of drugs, influences users behaviors and negative health outcomes. In 2000, Dr. Hoffer conducted an eighteen month ethnographic case-study of a heroin dealing network in Denver, Colorado. This fieldwork focused on the dealer’s business operations; transactions with customers; the interaction between addiction and drug acquisition; social and economic exchange relationships; as well as, characterizing the history of the local heroin market. This research is detailed in his book _[Junkie Business: the Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network](https://smile.amazon.com/Junkie-Business-Evolution-Operation-Contemporary/dp/0534644953/)_ (Thompson-Wadsworth Press, 2006). His on-going research involves synthesizing agent-based computational modeling techniques and ethnographic research to develop new tools for policymakers and researchers. Borrowing from theories of Complexity Systems, these projects seek to connect the rich descriptive detail offered by anthropology with the epidemiology of drug abuse. From 1997-1999 Dr. Hoffer was Colorado’s representative to NIDA’s Community Epidemiology Workgroup. He was also active in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV community planning efforts. From 2002-2005 he trained as a (T32) NIDA post-doctoral fellow in psychiatric epidemiology at Washington University School of Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group (EPRG), mentoring with Dr. Linda Cottler. His research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse, as well as, The National Science Foundation (Cultural Anthropology & Methods, Measurement, and Statistics program). [](https://smile.amazon.com/Junkie-Business-Evolution-Operation-Contemporary/dp/0534644953/)