Michael J. Gerson Michael J. Gerson is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His work focuses on issues of global health, development, religion and foreign policy, and the democracy agenda. Before joining the Council, he was a top aide to P ...

Christine Todd Whitman Christine Todd Whitman is the President of The Whitman Strategy Group, a management consulting/strategic planning partnership servicing both government and business clients. She served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as A ...

Nancy Johnson Nancy Johnson, a recognized authority on national health care and tax policy, served 24 years in the U.S. Congress from 1983-2007 and was the most senior woman in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 109th Congress. Johnson was known as ...

Karen Hicks Karen Hicks is a nationally regarded expert in grassroots political organizing and training. Hicks recently advised British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party as they sought and won an historic third term, primarily advising the Pa ...

Kerry Healey KERRY HEALEY served as Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2003-2007. Healey assumed a broad range of responsibilities in the Romney-Healey administration, including leading the administrations' successful effor ...

Constance A. Morella Constance A. Morella served as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2003 until 2007. She is the first United States Ambassador to the OECD ever to have served in the United States Congres ...

Bart Peterson Bart Peterson was elected the 47th mayor of the City of Indianapolis, the State of Indiana’s capital and the nation’s 12th largest city in 1999, and again in 2003. He took office on January 1, 2000. During his campaigns for mayor, he present ...

David Yepsen David A. Yepsen is the Des Moines Register’s political columnist. He is a native of Jefferson, Iowa and is a 1972 graduate of the University of Iowa. Yepsen has also done graduate work in journalism and mass communication at Iowa State Univer ...

David Zwick David Zwick has been a ground breaking expert in grassroots politics and organizing and a national environmental leader for more than three decades. A primary focus for much of his work has been helping constituency and issue-based groups – in ...

Lois Romano Lois Romano has been a reporter for the Washington Post for twenty-five years during which time she has covered seven presidential races, was a daily columnist, and served as regional correspondent based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Today, she is a nat ...