National Advisory Board
Hon. Michael D. Barnes
Former U.S. Representative (D-MD)
Hon. Bonnie Campbell
Former Attorney General of Iowa (D-IA)
Hon. Michael N. Castle
Former Governor and U.S. Representative (R-DE)
Hon. Byron Dorgan
Former U.S. Senator (D-ND)
Hon. Martin Frost
Former U.S. Representative (D-TX)
Hon. Nancy Johnson
Former U.S. Representative (R-CT)
Hon. James R. Jones
Former U.S. Representative (D-OK)
Hon. Jim Nussle
Former U.S. Representative (R-IA)
Hon. John Tanner
Former U.S. Representative (D-TN)
Hon. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Former Lt. Governor (D-MD)
Jen Daulby
Principal, Ogilvy Government Relations; Former Chief of Staff for Congressman Rodney Davis (IL); and Staff Director for the U.S. House Administration Committee
Kristie De Peña
Vice President for Policy, Niskanen Center
I.M. ‘Mac’ Destler
Saul Stern Professor of Civic Engagement, University of Maryland
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University
Gloria Duffy
Commonwealth Club of California
Jack Faris
Former Vice President, University of Washington
Donnie Fowler
CEO, Tech4America; Co-Founder, Democracy Labs
Carlos Gutierrez
Former Sec. of Commerce under George W. Bush, CEO of Kellogg
Katie Hall
CEO of Hall Capital & Chair of the Board of Trustees, Princeton University
Lawrence Jacobs
Walter & Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies, University of Minnesota
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Marvin Kalb
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Kevin Kosar
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Former Vice President, R Street Institute
Jon Krosnick
Frederic Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Stanford University
Gregory G. Lebel
The George Washington University
Lawrence Lessig
Roy Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Carolyn Lukensmeyer
National Institute for Civil Discourse
Benjamin Page
Gordon Fulcher Professor of Decision Making, Northwestern University
Jennifer Potter
Former CEO, Initiative for Global Development
Cindy Simon Rosenthal
Director and Curator, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma
Robert Shapiro
Columbia University
D. Wayne Silby
Founder, Calvert Social Investment Fund
John Steiner
Transpartisan Policy Center
Talia Stroud
Assistant Director, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation at University of Texas
Richard Tafel
Public Squared, Founder, Log Cabin Republicans
Wendy Willis
Policy Consensus Initiative, Portland State University
In Memoriam
Hon. John Porter (1935-2022), former U.S. Representative (R-IL)
Hon. Vic Fazio (1942-2022), former U.S. Representative (D-CA)
William Ruckelshaus (1932-2019), EPA Administrator under Richard Nixon & George Bush
Daniel Yankelovich (1924-2017), Public Agenda Foundation
Thomas Schelling (1921-2016), Nobel Laureate, University of Maryland
Hon. Bill Frenzel (1928-2014), former U.S. Representative from Minnesota