Matthew J. Slaughter is the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where in addition he is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the academic advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum, and an academic advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute.

David Autor is one of the most influential labor economists of his generation. He is the Codirector of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Labor Studies Program; his scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earning levels and inequality, and election outcomes. In 2020, Autor received the Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work “transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers.”

Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, CNN Presidential Historian, CBS commentator, and contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The New York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley as their official Presidential Historian. Author of numerous books, including Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War; Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944, written with Ronald J. Drez; The Reagan Diaries, which Brinkley edited; The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt’s Crusade for America; American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the American Space Race.

William H. Frey is an internationally recognized demographer who has written widely on US demographics, American political demographics, and the U.S. Census. His most recent book is Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America (Brookings Institution Press, 2018). Dr. Frey is Senior Fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution and Research Professor with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He has authored over 200 publications and several books including America by the Numbers: A Field Guide to the US Population (with Bill Abresch and Jonathan Yeasting); and Social Atlas of the United States (with Amy Beth Anspach and John Paul DeWitt). His research has been written about in such diverse venues as The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The National Journal, The New Yorker, and Forbes. His commentary and observations have been featured on broadcast media including NPR’s All Things Considered, The PBS NewsHour, NBC’s Nightly News, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS’s Evening News, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, as well as online and print media including Axios, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Julia Gelatt is a Senior Policy Analyst with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. Her work focuses on the legal immigration system, demographic trends, and the impact of local, state, and federal U.S. immigration policy. She worked previously at the Urban Institute on state policies toward immigrants. Dr. Gelatt earned her Ph.D. in sociology, with a specialization in demography, from Princeton University in 2013.

“We’re Behind at the Top of the Home Stretch, But Starting to Close.” So says Middlebury professor Bill McKibben, who has been writing about climate change since 1989. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker Magazine and elsewhere. He helped found the grassroots group 350.org, which advocates divestment from fossil fuel companies.