Adrianne has spent two decades helping Democrats win races from Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign to Claire McCaskill’s 2012 re-election. 

She’s the CEO of Altum Insight, where her team helps candidates and organizations translate research into compelling narratives and effective operations. 

They’re currently finalizing a new study focused on rural voters in Nebraska, and one finding stood out immediately: a deep, under-discussed fear of AI. 

Not the sensational, sci-fi version, but real concerns about accountability, trust, and who’s responsible as AI starts affecting daily life. 

Mediator, teacher & consultant with over 30 years of experience in cross-cultural diversity & conflict management. Ashok holds a B.A in Visual Communication & M.A in Critical and Creative Thinking, University of Massachusetts. 

Founder of MetaCulture in Bangalore, India, facilitating complex inter-faith & business-civil society dialogues & consensus building. After coming back to the USA, I founded the Village Idiot Studio (www.villageidiot.studio) helping people think through complex cultural and political issues of the 21st Century. 

I teach the DemoSapiens (Wise Citizen) online courses on democracy, pluralism and critical thinking, create videos and write a weekly column on Substack: What, Me Think? - by Village Idiot - Village’s Substack. 

David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

Dr. Jared O. Bell is a global expert in post-conflict development and a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer with USAID, where he led democracy, human rights, and rule of law programs in challenging environments worldwide. He is the author of 'Frozen Justice' (Vernon Press, 2018), and his commentary has appeared in The Hill, Al Jazeera Balkans, Dissident Voice, and other international outlets. His work connects research with practice, focusing on global justice, human rights, and systemic inequality. Dr. Bell holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, an MA in Negotiation and Conflict Management, and a BA in International Relations. He has trained at institutions including Leiden University, the Venice Academy of Human Rights, and MIGS. He is a UNESCO Policy Lab Expert and former Visiting Fellow at Western University’s Centre for Transitional Justice.

Gartner is a psychotherapist with private practices in Baltimore and Manhattan, where he specializes in the treatment of borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and depression. He was a part-time professor, until 2015, for 28 years at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and is a widely published author of books and articles for scientific and other journals.

Nancy Rosenblum is Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Harvard University, Emerita. She is the author of many books on contemporary political theory, and the co-author with Russell Muirhead of A lot of People are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy and Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos – both published by Princeton University Press. 

Dr. Priscilla Hobbs is an accomplished author and educator. She is the author of Walt’s Utopia: Disneyland and American Mythmaking and Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials: Identity, Reception, and Politics, and the editor of the collection Interpreting and Experiencing Disney: Mediating the Mouse. Dr. Hobbs actively researches Disney, American popular culture, and utopianism.

Dr. Russel Muirhead is an American academic, politician, and author serving as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for the Grafton 12th district. He is also the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics and the Chair of the Department of Government at Dartmouth College.

Author, political psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former psychology professor in the School of Humanities at New College of California. 

He holds a doctorate from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. He completed his psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and holds licenses as a psychologist in both California and Oregon.

Hatreds We Love: The Psychology of Political Tribalism in Post-Truth America: Ducat, Stephen J.: 9781510780804: Amazon.com: Books

Minding Politics | Stephen J. Ducat | Substack 

Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of Keeping Faith. Crazy for God, and over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, a Religious Reform Activist and regular guest commentator on The ReidOut on MSNBC with Joy Reid, and has been a frequent guest of Rachel Maddow and Christiane Amanpour, sought after for his perspective on national and world news events.

Frank is the host of In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer on YouTube and Apple Podcasts, and his cultural commentary series, It Has to Be Said., which can be seen at frankschaeffer.substack.com.

Glenn Kirschner served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia rising to the position of Chief of the Homicide Section, and served more than six years on active duty as an Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) prosecutor. 

He spent 6 1/2 years as an on-air legal analyst and columnist for NBC News and MSNBC leaving corporate media in early 2025, to be all independent in his legal analysis work.

Glenn has a YouTube channel and Podcast, “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner”. 

Glenn attended Washington & Lee University and was First-Team All American football player in 1983. In 1987, he graduated with honors from New England School of Law in Boston, where he was named a Trustee’s Scholar. 

Glenn has numerous awards: Harold J. Sullivan Award for Fairness, Ethics and Trial Excellence; John F. Evans Award for Outstanding Advocacy; induction in 2018 into the American College of Trial Lawyers.

A professional investor for 25 years, managing $10 billion in assets.  Most of his time was spent with Mackenzie Investments in Toronto.  

Today, Paul runs his own investment consulting firm, Paddington Capital Management, and publishes a free weekly blog, Paulitical Economy, that discusses what's going on in the world in very easy-to-understand terms.  

Paul's book, Capital Offence: Why Some Benefit at Your Expense, was recently published and is also available on Audible. The goal in writing the book was to educate people about how an economy really works and thus empower them to demand positive change from our policymakers.

His hobbies/pastimes include birding, cycling, and soccer.  I am also a steam train enthusiast.

Paul is married with three daughters, and I lives in the Toronto area.

Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-three books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Loom of Time, Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel. Foreign Policy twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers.

Thom is a media personality and the host of The Hartmann Report.

Thom is also the author of The Hidden History of the American Dream available at a bookstore near you.
 
A link to Thom's YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/thomhartmann

Thom's book https://hiddenhistorybooks.com/ 

Thom's Website https://hartmannreport.com/ 

Travis Misurell is the founder of FiNC, America's civic utility. His work centers on helping citizens see politics through a simple, clear lens: Down = people-first, Up = power-first. Instead of fighting inside a rigged system shaped by money and spin, Travis focuses on how citizens can use today's rules differently — organizing in the Digital Politics Hub to coordinate, co-build, and become future owners of Digital Democracy, the future shared stage where every candidate is seen and every citizen is heard. 

Zolal Habibi is an Iranian human rights activist and a prominent voice for justice, democracy, and women’s rights in Iran. She serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), where she advocates globally for a free, secular, and democratic Iran.

 With over two decades of activism, in recent years she has become a fierce advocate for the voiceless in Iran, often appearing at international forums, human rights conferences, and live broadcasts.

 Zolal’s activism began in her teens, shaped by the loss of her father—a respected Iranian writer and political dissident—who was killed by the regime in 1988.