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  • Don Moynihan

    Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Immigrant. Researches and teaches about government, administrative burdens, and politicization.

  • Merici

    There's no rule that says you can't rewrite the rules

  • Adrianna McIntyre

    Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

    Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is a Columbia University professor who studies the political economy of the United States, with an emphasis on labor and workers, the politics of organized interests, and social policy.

  • Gabriel Scheffler

    Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

  • Alex Snider

    Alex Snider is the author of Sometimes You Should Be Late. He draws on a 15 year career in public service and a decade of practicing and facilitating meditation and group processes. He writes the Substack Slow Mindfulness.

  • Sharon Gilad

    Professor of public administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Pamela Herd

    Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research.

  • Ashley Splawinski

    Ashley Splawinski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She examines how administrative burdens and stakeholder competition shape policymaking. Her work has appeared in Policy Options and CBC Radio.

  • Rebecca Johnson

    I'm an Assistant Professor at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy. I study how social service agencies use a mix of data and discretion to allocate scarce resources. More on my research here: https://rebeccajohnson.io/

  • Chloe East
  • Ariel Jurow Kleiman

    Law professor at USC Gould School of Law. Researches and teaches about how tax and fiscal policies affect normal folks.

  • Andrea Scoseria Katz

    Andrea Scoseria Katz teaches constitutional law at WashU Law, where she writes on constitutional law, the American presidency, and the history of executive power.

  • Phil Rocco

    Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University

  • Sam Berger

    Sam formerly served as Associate Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget and as Director of Strategic Operations and Policy for the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

  • Sophie Jacobson

    Sophie Jacobson is a political scientist at Columbia University who studies the political economy of the United States, with an emphasis on the political consequences of economic insecurity and social inequality in Americans' everyday lives.

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