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Neal Katyal is the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a partner at Hogan Lovells. A former acting solicitor general of the United States, he has argued 39 cases before the US Supreme Court, more than any minority attorney in US history. Most recently, Katyal argued the “travel ban” case on behalf of the state of Hawaii against Presiden...
Joan Biskupic is a legal analyst for CNN, since 2017. She has covered the Supreme Court for 25 years. Previously, Biskupic was a visiting professor at University of California, Irvine’s law school, editor-in-charge for legal affairs at Reuters, and the Supreme Court correspondent for The Washington Post and for USA Today. She is the author of, most recently, a biography of...
Mimi Marziani is president of the Texas Civil Rights Project. She previously directed voting rights programs for multiple political campaigns and committees, and in 2014, she led the first coordinated, statewide voter protection program for progressive candidates and groups in Texas. Before moving to Texas, Marziani was counsel for the Democracy Program of the Brennan Cent...
Elliot Gerson is an executive vice president at the Aspen Institute, responsible for policy programs, public programs, and relations with ten international partners. The Institute’s over 30 policy programs provide neutral venues to undertake nonpartisan analysis, foster candid dialogue, advocate new policy, and promote best practices. Public programs, including the Aspen I...
Irin Carmon is a national reporter at MSNBC, where she reports for digital and TV on gender, politics, and the law, with a special emphasis on reproductive rights and the Supreme Court. She is co-author of the New York Times best-seller Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Carmon is also a visiting fellow in the Program for the Study of Reproductive Ju...
Max Stier is founding president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, which encompasses a network connecting over 1,000 colleges and universities with 80 federal agencies, awards that recognize civil servants, and other programs. Stier has worked in all three branches of federal government, most recently as deputy general counsel for litigation at the Department o...
Charlie Firestone is executive director of the Communications and Society Program at the Aspen Institute. The program has focused on the implications of communications and information technologies for leadership; the impact of new technologies on democratic, economic, and social institutions; and the development of new communications policy models and options for the publi...
Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and advised the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law (its interim constitution). Feldman was previously on the faculty of New York University Law School and served a...
Bryan Stevenson is executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, which he founded in 1989. An acclaimed public interest lawyer who previously worked for the Southern Center for Human Rights, he has dedicated his career to helping the poor, incarcerated, and condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exon...
Tania Simoncelli is director of science policy for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, focused on enhancing public support for science and building an initiative to promote patient-driven disease research at scale. She has designed advocacy strategies and policy solutions to address issues at the intersection of science, technology, law, and ethics for 20 years. Simoncelli pre...
Jennifer Bradley is founding director of the Aspen Institute’s Center for Urban Innovation. Previously, she was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, where she worked on the role of metropolitan areas in the nation’s economy and politics. A former attorney, Bradley has co-authored Supreme Court amicus briefs in cases that affirmed the constitut...