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Each year, the IOP hosts dozens of public Speaker Series events, providing students and the general public direct contact with elected officials, activists, authors, journalists, and other key practitioners in politics and public service.
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- Michael Strautmanis
- Tim Marema
- Silvia Rivera
- Rob Portman
- Dale King
- Grace Olmstead
- Lamar Moore
- Whitney Kimball Coe
- Manu Meel
- Matt Yglesias
- Tony Pipa
- Janie Hipp
- Samuel Hammond
- Abby Goodnough
- Joe Manchin
- Xochitl Torres Small
- Brad Hershbein
- Benya Kraus Beacom
- Michael Smith
- Stephen Heintz
- Beth Macy
- Whitley Yates
- Brenda Gianiny
- Erin Simpson
- Tony Fabrizio
- Rachel Mikva
- Dan Glickman
- Scott Allard
- Yoani Sanchez
- Victor Dickson
- Cheryl Corley
- Doan Tran
- Tom Perriello
- Irene Romulo
- Susan Page
- Juliana Smoot
- Sasha Issenberg
- Larry McEnerney
- Aziz Huq
- Mark Leibovich
- Beth Reinhard
- James Clapper
- Donna More
- Michael Kang
- Kevin McCarthy
- Dennis Ross
- Matt Viser
- Heather Steans
- Ben LaBolt
- David Petraeus
- Erin Simpson
- Benito Goff
- Sean Morales-Doyle
- September Hargrove
- Tony Arnold
- George Little
- Matt Strawn
- Elyse Samuels
- Luis Martinez
- Jill Lawrence
- Larry Sabato
- Lis Smith
- Alicia Garza
- Richard Schiff
- Adam Green
- Jack Kingston
- Bechara Choucair
- Suzanne Kianpour
- David Bushby
- Ben Austen
- Mark Holden
- Kaitlan Collins
- Alia Bilal
- Megan McArdle
- Michael Puente
- Jonathan Martin
- Michael Hancock
- Denis McDonough
- John Farrell
- Kool Moe Dee
- Emily Boening
- Constance Hammer
- Quinn Rallins
- Gary Samore
- Asiaha Butler
- Mack McLarty
- Mary Mitchell
- Dominique de Villepin
- Will Hurd
- Nathaniel Rich
- Coral Davenport
- Melba Lara
- Dipesh Chakrabarty
- Steven Greenhouse
- Kim Wolske
- Larry Tramutola
- Dawn Turner
- John Temple
- Shirin Ebadi
- Jeffrey Bader
- Dan Wager
- Grover Norquist
- Jon Sawyer
- Kate Grossman
- David Cole
- Dali Yang
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- Tom Price
- Brad Raffensperger
- Eliana Johnson
- Ron Brownstein
- Tom Schenk
- Chris Lindsey
- Denys Shmyhal
- Moustafa Bayoumi
- Lisa Madigan
- Monica Davey
- Kate Brown
- Yuval Levin
- Steve LaTourette
- Fareed Zakaria
- Dina Smeltz
- Bruce Lincoln
- Pramila Jayapal
- Vitus Spehar
- Jeffrey Anderson
- Rachel DeWoskin
- Mervyn King
- Lauren Underwood
- Elissa Slotkin
- Robert Rivkin
- Terry Clark
- Robert Pape
- Tim Miller
- Julie Pace
- Zach Stepp
- Vuyiswa Tulelo
- Evan Bayh
- David Ansari
- April Ponnuru
- Kathleen Belew
- Marc Elias
- Madeline Doubek
- Ngozi Ezike
- Christopher Reed
- Barton Gellman
- Kelly Magsamen
- Hanna Rosin
- Ji-Yeon Yuh
- Jon Favreau
- Brandis Friedman
- Bill Barr
- Beau Willimon
- Samuel Charap
- Rahm Emanuel
- Robin Kniech
- Eve Ewing
- Michael Rubin
- Franklin Gamwell
- Charlene Carruthers
- Rohan Sandhu (AB '12)
- Liz Planck
- Erik Tillman
- Jodi Rudoren
- Raj Shah
- Dennis Wilder
- Stephanie Cutter
- Neil Newhouse
- Rob Saliterman
- Rachel Stassen-Berger
- Michael Tafolla
- John Kerry
- John Boyer
- Richard Stengal
- Ed Gillespie
- Evan Osnos
- Gerald Rosenberg
- Christopher Weissberg
- Lawrence O'Donnell
- Gilad Edelman
- Vin Weber
- Tresa Undem
- H.E. Send Soukhathivong
- Vanita Gupta
- Mandy Grunwald
- Bob Fioretti
- Jennifer Duffy
- Peter Hart
- P.J. Huffstutter
- Robert Bauer
- Stephen Goldsmith
- Mark Campbell
- Cecilia Muñoz
- Susan Gzesh
- Chloe Maxmin
- Sean Spicer
- Michael Eric Dyson
- Crystal Coats
- Mike Memoli
- Ian Haney-Lopez
- Susan Kennedy
- Eric Fehrnstrom
- Julie Hirschfield Davis
- Justin Amash
- Eric Holder
- Jessica Yellin
- Fiona Hill
- Kat Atwater
- Darcel Rockett
- Bradley Whitford
- Selwyn Rogers
- Andrew Flores
- Brie Loskota
- Athena Jones
- Whit Ayres
- Arianna Huffington
- Bob Daiber
- Dan Sinker
- Nikki Haley
- Tim Ryan
- Dan Caldwell
- Jim Durkin
- John McConnell
- Sophia King
- George Packer
- Neera Tanden
- Ben Smith
- Sanjay Srivatsan
- Tyler Massias
- Grace Hauck
- Harper Reed
- Andrew Srulevitch
- Peter Wehner
- Ann Marie Lipinski
- Gina Raimondo
- Roberto Gonzales
- Chris Lu
- Bryan Stevenson
- Todd Purdum
- Dylan Wells
- Paul Kane
- Dilma Rousseff
- Katie Packer-Gage
- J.A. Adande
- Ronald Jackson
- David French
- Eli Attie
- Andre Tse
- Heather Cherone
- Joe Lackhart
- John Harwood
- Jacqueline Mason
- Charles Lipson
- Justin Folsom
- Jane Coaston
- Ashley Parker
- Crystal Orderson
- John Mearsheimer
- Robert Costa
- Roger Clegg
- Faiz Shakir
- Cecilia Kang
- Natalie Jaresko
- Adam Kinzinger
- Lydia Polgreen
- Andrew McCabe
- Vicki Heyman
- Sarah Bryner
- Donald Verrilli
- Raumesh Akbari
- Ertharin Cousin
- Jennifer Weiss Wolf
- Ronald Johnson
- Charles Rivkin
- Eric Swalwell
- Elizabeth Dozier
- Lawrence Summers
- Nicholas Kristof
- Greg Pratt
- Rachel Bronson
- Merle Erickson
- Mike Frerichs
- Laura Arce
- Phil Levy
- Christopher Huff
- John Kasich
- Tom Cotton
- Judith Gough
- Shane Goldmacher
- Mitt Romney
- Melinda Bush
- Anna Massoglia
- Jennifer Granholm
- Jelani Cobb
- Pete Souza
- Chip Griffin
- Rebecca Sive
- David Rhodes
- Nathan Gonzales
- Cécile Shea
- Alex Seitz-Wald
- Karen Dunn
- Robert Strauss
- JB Pritzker
- Asma Khalid
- Jen O'Malley
- Gregg Hurwitz
- KK Ottesen
- Maria Pinto
- Dan Montgomery
- Steve Koch
- Mary Katharine Ham
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- James Robinson
- Quinton Lucas
- Garry Kasparov
- Timothy Sini
- Nancy Scola
- Cece McDonald
- Shaka Senghor
- David Chalian
- Sadia Sindhu
- Nico Perrino
- Kim Foxx
- Ed Henry
- Dana Perino
- Michael Flaherty
- Deborah Seligsohn
- Cornell Belcher
- Jesper Møller Sørensen
- Jose Cuisia
- Micah White
- Josh Meyer
- Genevieve Lakier
- Delmar Gillus
- Craig Kafura
- Jerry Joyce
- Michael Pfleger
- Ali Adeed-al-Naemi
- Isaac Troncoso
- Larry Tye
- Tom Balanoff
- Michael Coleman
- John Anzalone
- Franklin Foer
- Claudia Morell
- Haki Madhubuti
- Anthony Berglund
- Andrew Yang
- Tracey Meares
- Steve Schmidt
- Bill Keller
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier
- Todd Stern
- Nate Silver
- Cassidy Hutchinson
- Abby Phillip
- Charles Stewart
- Katherine Baicker
- Martha Moore
- Tracy Meares
- Jon Huntsman
- Marvin Zonis
- Devshi Mehrotra
- Gary Slutkin
- Emily Schmall
- Sheryl WuDunn
- Anna Galland
- Valerie Jarrett
- Mark Falkoff
- Chase Strangio
- David Miliband
- Michael Hawthorne
- Bryan Samuels
- Jan Crawford
- Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean
- John King
- Charles Newell
- Anita Alvarez
- Tim Alberta
- Jens Ludwig
- Nicholas Confessore
- Charles Hales
- Infiniti Gant
- David Gregory
- Mark Mazzetti
- Djerdj Matkovic
- Erick Erickson
- Greer Donley
- Lael Brainerd
- Vincent Romero
- Trudy Vincent
- Luis Gutiérrez
- Kerry Luft
- Adam Schiff
- Jeanne Ives
- Jake Braun
- Brenetta Howell Barrett
- Jake Sullivan
- Michael Dawson
- Aaron Hanlon
- Laura Washington
- Wendy Sherman
- Peter Meijer
- Michael Nutter
- Jack Abramoff
- Jennifer Williams
- Kambium Buckner
- Lena Sun
- Matt Rhoades
- Jade Begay
- Justin Trudeau
- Austan Goolsbee
- Michael Bennet
- Jim Warren
- David Siders
- Lauren Baer
- Emma Sky
- Willie Cochran
- Martin Whalley
- Tad Devine
- Benji Backer
- David Muir
- Pam Anderson
- Chuck Hagel
- Helga Barth
- Kyle Lierman
- Kurt Summers
- Ellen Cushing
- Randy Brinson
- Jose Torres
- Lincoln Davis
- Christina Romer
- Josh Shapiro
- Nathaniel Persily
- John Campbell
- Eboo Patel
- Jonathan Haidt
- Mara Kiesling
- Adrienne Green
- Jason Furman
- Steven Chu
- Anne Dodge
- Prexy Nesbitt
- Sue Rezin
- Laura Chinchilla
- Patrick Gaspard
- Brian Newby
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Roseanna Ander
- Briana Payton
- Tera Hurst
- Spencer Zwick
- Daniel Shapiro
- Daniel Isom
- Leigh Ann Caldwell
- Scott Carter
- Andrew Card
- Rami Nashashibi
- Claire McCaskill
- Alan Simpson
- Michael Ignatieff
- Anmar Ghouse
- Todd Young
- Caitlin Huey-Burns
- David Becker
- Ruth Bloch Rubin
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
- Steve Copley
- Chenhao Tan
- Nicholas Stephanopolous
- Steve James
- John Rowe
- Alex Conant
- J. Stapleton Roy
- E.J. Dionne
- Isaac Lee
- Vanessa Friedman
- Mvemba Phezo Dizolele
- Anna Holmes
- Emily Landon
- Roland Lescure
- Mike Pence
- Tim Geithner
- Kim Hart
- John Heilemann
- Victor Shi
- Jason Rezaian
- Simon Rogers
- Bill DeBlasio
- Cody Keenan
- Louise Fréchette
- Casey Newton
- Josh Connolly
- Theresa Cardinal Brown
- Hassana Alidou
- Kafi Moragne-Patterson
- Jonah Goldberg
- Nicole Bibbins Sedaca
- Michael Silverstein
- Chris Bury
- Diane McWhorter
- Bethany McLean
- Bob Reiter
- Ralph Becker
- Blase Cupich
- Micere Keels
- Zulfat Suara
- Natalie Palmer
- Karine Jean-Pierre
- Soren Baker
- Guy Benson
- Beto O'Rourke
- Jorge Ramos
- Keith Pekau
- Tammy Patrick
- Helene Gayle
- Shibani Mahtani
- Maria Ramirez
- Rob Wildeboer
- Sara Burnett
- Ray LaHood
- Kareem Butler
- Mike Murphy
- Alison Cuddy
- Christopher Thomas
- Mary Lou Finley
- Eliot Spitzer
- Bruce Rauner
- Oswaldo Gomez
- Jack Lobel
- Liesl Hickey
- Evan Pérez
- Jeff Perry
- Maria Latella
- Bruce Heyman
- Sarah Kliff
- Jason Seawright
- Abdul Dosunmu
- Edward Lazear
- Sol Flores
- Philip Revzin
- Jay Newton-Small
- Tom Ginsburg
- Jamie Dimon
- Chris Coleman
- Carrie Levine
- Christine Dudley
- Tex Dozier
- Ramesh Ponnuru
- Dake Kang
- Tammy Duckworth
- Laura Barrón-López
- Meghan McCarty
- Ed Sullivan
- Maurice Obstfeld
- Chuck Todd
- Bob Inglis
- Tio Hardiman
- Elena Kagan
- Sheila Simon
- William McRaven
- Timothy Parkin
- Tom Brokaw
- Yarimar Bonilla
- William Schweiker
- Alex Hernandez
- Ryan Hass
- Phil Cline
- Jose Lopez
- Tyler Kingkade
- Martin Baron
- Jackie Calmes
- Shermin Kruse
- Josip Josko-Paro
- Sheri Mecklenberg
- David Jolly
- Cole Bolton
- Tony Blinken
- Mike Lux
- Patrick Murphy
- M. Todd Henderson
- Oliver Stone
- Eric Schmidt
- Josie Duffy Rice
- Zeenat Rahman
- Nneka Jones Tapia
- James Bennet
- Daniel Aschheim
- Amara Enyia
- Mike Pompeo
- Julianna Goldman
- Ro Khanna
- Ricky Holder
- Luigi Zingales
- Greg Jacob
- Geoffrey Cowan
- Jesse Moore
- Javier Garza
- Bruce Katz
- Michael Shear
- Richard Hasen
- Diane Benscoter
- Stephen Hayes
- Ann Borders
- Salih Noor
- Julián Castro
- Sean Sweeney
- Michael Greenstone
- Jenna Golden
- Lena Tom
- Peter Baker
- Ben Haddad
- Arionne Nettles
- Bakari Kitwana
- Christine Hurley
- David Leonhardt
- TA. Frank
- Gretchen Crosby Sims
- Richard Irvin
- Betsy Hodges
- Sue Kelly
- Todd Larson
- Mark Sanford
- Huma Abedin
- Elizabeth Wilner
- Lolly Bowean
- Nick Shields
- Ally Mutnick
- Ivo Daalder
- Alexa Ura
- Garry McCarthy
- John Patty
- Jake Tapper
- Marty Nesbitt
- Stacy Davis Gates
- Peter Flaherty
- Dave Price
- Robert Marshall
- Bill Daley
- Bruce Japsen
- Peter Kuznick
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Nadine Woodward
- Catherine Ross
- Michael Klingensmith
- Emilio Kourí
- Alex Wagner
- Gulwari Passarly
- Joshua Bivens
- Glenn Simpson
- John McCain
- James McAuley
- Melissa Mark-Viverito
- Graco Ramírez
- Courtney Kube
- Stacey Philbrick Yadav
- Alicia Downs
- Paul Alivisatos
- Forrest Claypool
- Alton Miller
- Elie Wiesel
- Brent Earnest
- Robin Kelly
- David Sanger
- Lotfullah Najafizada
- Shani Hilton
- Pete Ricketts
- Mo Ryan
- Sister Simone Campbell
- Cass Sunstein
- Dequa Aden
- Rachad Bouhlal
- Ricardo Lagos
- Rosa DeLauro
- John J. MacAloon
- Emily Norman
- Mary Ann Ahern
- Bill Conway
- Ana Navarro
- William Baude
- Angela Glover Blackwell
- Charles Schwab
- Joe Lockhart
- Elgie Sims
- Peter Shumlin
- Jennifer Griffin
- Julio Rivera
- Kirsten Lodal
- Chris Cousins
- Symone Sanders
- William Cavanaugh
- Colm O'Muircheartaigh
- Kai Ryssdal
- Nick Schifrin
- Wolfgang A. Waldner
- Jamie Fly
- David Suro
- Sumaya Bouadi
- Brandon Johnson
- Natalie Moore
- Ron Grossman
- Ben Rawlence
- Patrick McHenry
- Bob Mandell
- Samar Ali
- Roberta Jacobson
- Yousef Munayyer
- Gina M. Samuels
- Sally Yates
- Dan Mihalopoulos
- Jason DeSanto
- Rebecca Rosen
- Thomas Friedman
- Shuja Nawaz
- Jacob Furst
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Jeff Weaver
- Carl Hulse
- Paul Ryan
- Randall Kroszner
- Catherine Bertini
- Brian Deese
- Abbie Richards
- Jared Cohen
- Chancelor Bennett
- Patrice Harris
- Chris Matthews
- Reihan Salam
- Lilly Jay
- Frank O. Bowman
- Doug Ducey
- Jeff Zucker
- Rahul Gandhi
- Gerald Butts
- S.E. Cupp
- Hannah Allam
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Jon Lee Anderson
- Timuel Black
- Prahanth Parameswaran
- Kim Dozier
- Al Franken
- Christian Mitchell
- Bruce Reed
- Jon Lovett
- Dana Peterson
- Jim Hodges
- Emily Bazelon
- Elin Betanzo
- Cindy Agustin
- Maria Elena Salinas
- Caroline Kennedy
- Camille Cypher
- Nancy Chi Cantalupo
- Asa Hutchinson
- Jennifer Steinhauer
- David Wessel
- Will Howell
- Hal Weitzman
- Farah Pandith
- Chokwe Antar Lumumba
- Edward Snowden
- Bonnie Glick
- Michael Scherer
- Jowei Chen
- Jay Inslee
- John Delaney
- Katie Telford
- Perry Bacon
- Steve Chapman
- Khalil Marrar
- Courtney Cobbs
- Anand Grover
- Betsy Fischer Martin
- Jalil Abbas-Jilani
- Evan McMullin
- Kenneth Trujillo
- Yinka Adegoke
- Al Cardenas
- Heather McTeer Toney
- Gary Herrigel
- Marcus Yam
- Peter Roskam
- Al Gore
- Richard Stengel
- Natalia Brzezinski
- John Inazu
- Tom Dart
- Steve Cicala
- Arthur Brooks
- Lily Rocha
- Tevi Troy
- Richard Miller
- Tim Phillips
- Brian Leiter
- Max Read
- Alastair Campbell
- J.D. Vance
- Blair Imani
- Osita Nwanevu (AB'15, MPP'16)
- Helen Krieble
- Charlie Spies
- Gery Chico
- Don Rose
- Eliza Newlin Carney
- Juan Williams
- Rosanna Warren
- Tim Knowles
- Avery Pierson
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Bill Browder
- Jon Ralston
- Jonathan Black
- John Weaver
- Hadi Esfahani
- MarySue Barrett
- Eugene Volokh
- Keri Blakinger
- Michelle Morrison
- Nick Stephanopolous
- Anthony Aslou
- Glenn Greenwald
- Ronald Neumann
- Angie Craig
- Don Lamb
- Evan Feigenbaum
- Sonal Shah
- Terry Branstad
- Patricia Lopez
- Ty Cobb
- Stanley McChrystal
- Thomas Fisher
- Tom Harkin
- Samantha Power
- Tom Davis
- Charles Ramsey
- Carrie Johnson
- Noreen Ahmed-Ullah
- Gretchen Whitmer
- Kevin Madden
- Jake Auchincloss
- Kelly Ayotte
- Liz Cheney
- Josh Tetrick
- Alicia Sams
- Jan Schakowsky
- Otts Bolisay
- John Bolton
- Kenneth Pollack
- Natalie Vernon
- Paul Staniland
- Annie Sweeney
- Jeff Flake
- Karen Abuzayd
- David Fahrenthold
- Steven Pearlstein
- Tanya Clay-House
- Rick Santorum
- Karrie Karahalios
- Rana Ayyub
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Terri Brady
- Diana Greene Foster
- Rachel Sumekh
- Willie Wilson
- Chris Christie
- David Maraniss
- Jason Scott
- Dhammika Dharmapala
- Cory Booker
- Nancy-Anne DeParle
- Ben Rhodes
- Scott Anderson
- Christine Wormuth
- Leon Rogers
- Nicholas Berggruen
- Dennis Hutchinson
- Terry Edmonds
- Eric Slauter
- Nancy Pelosi
- James Jeffrey
- Chad King
- Daniel Biss
- Michael Mullen
- Jeffrey Stern
- Joe Walsh
- Maggie Haberman
- Meg Kelly
- Robert Bruno
- Gordon Brown
- Roberto Mazza
- Kathleen Sebelius
- Sam Feist
- Stephen Ware
- Jeffrey Goldberg
- Ryan Busse
- Elbert Huang
- Maria del Rosario Acosta Lopez
- Ian Bogost
- Gerard Araud
- Karen Bass
- Carl Bernstein
- Pat Devaney
- Jane Fonda
- Amisha Patel
- Lorella Praeli
- Robin Steans
- Ken Vogel
- Jonathan Alter
- Ann Ravel
- Heidi Heitkamp
- Mary Schapiro
- Lincoln Chafee
- Atul Gawande
- Jeb Bush
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Kassandra Frederique
- Astead Herndon
- David Frum
- Mitch Daniels
- Vanessa Sheridan
- Nate Galbreath
- John Coles
- Robert Callahan
- Mark Ritchie
- Matt Masterson
- Eliseo Medina
- Adrienne LeFrance
- Gary Hart
- William Martin
- Brian Stelter
- Mike Fenzel
- Tania Guerrero
- Seth Flaxman
- Tom Rosenstiel
- Žygimantas Pavilionis
- Nicole Newnham
- Jim VandeHei
- Gillian Sorensen
- Cathy Cohen
- Jon Stewart
- Craig Silverman
- John Mahama
- Frances Haugen
- Mary Louise Kelly
- Roderick Sawyer
- Peter Overby
- John Deutch
- Lois Romano
- Laura Rosenberger
- John King
- Saul Shorr
- Alex Lundry
- Dikembe Mutombo
- Michael Collins
- Katie McCormick-Lelyveld
- Jonathan Zittrain
- Brian Citro
- Jeffrey Toobin
- Sophie Pedder
- Stuart Stevens
- Bob Levey
- Mark Blumenthal
- Mary McCord
- Enrique Acevedo
- Joel Ebert
- Alexi McCammond
- Adam Harris
- Michael Smerconish
- Brian Duncan
- Craig Futterman
- McKay Coppins
- John Lindback
- Ben Kesling
- Tim Evans
- Hannah Dominguez
- Sarah Hurwitz
- Dan Rose
- Beth McCann
- Lori Montgomery
- Alison LaCroix
- Tom Donilon
- Ben Domenech
- Lawrence Hill
- Karen Finney
- Raúl Rodríguez
- Patrick Kennedy
- Seth Poling
- Sheila Nix
- Jim Rutenberg
- Jeremy Bird
- Susan Smith Richardson
- Shailagh Murray
- Matthew Trail
- Brian Hook
- Zach Mottl
- Toni Preckwinkle
- Peter Fritsch
- Larry Hogan
- Andrew Kelly
- Zeke Emanuel
- Matt Lewis
- Damien Ma
- Jennifer Taub
- Callie Schweitzer
- Ryan Lizza
- Gary Johnson
- Daniel Poneman
- Jacky Grimshaw
- Susan Sher
- Sol Anderson
- Lila Leff
- Tom Bevan
- Tatiana Schlossberg
- Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
- Nana Akufo-Addo
- Renslow Sherer
- Robinson Meyer
- Blair Milo
- Jonathan Weisman
- David Ignatius
- Amanda Vinicky
- Jason Motlagh
- Anika Noni Rose
- Paul Soglin
- Bruce Cumings
- Rick Klein
- Stephen Moore
- Karl Friedhoff
- William Marovitz
- Jenn White
- Jamelle Bouie
- Andrew Gillum
- Claudia Flores
- Margaret Sullivan
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Noga Tarnopolsky
- Marty Travis
- Adrian Perkins
- Maureen Dowd
- Paul Luu
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Emma Belcher
- Barack Obama
- Michael Belsky
- Lori Lightfoot
- Graham Allison
- Shabana Basij-Rasikh
- Kaedy Puckett
- John Harwood
- Jim Messina
- Margaret Talev
- Jaime Harrison
- Kate Anderson Brower
- Elizabeth Warren
- Laila El-Haddad
- Jack Fuller
- Bill Kristol
- John Allen
- Shayan Karbassi
- Jenny Keroack
- Noam Scheiber
- Katherine Stewart
- Leo Gerard
- Federico Palomera Güez
- Stephen Anderson
- Paul Heer
- Nate Cohn
- Mark Templeton
- Sarah Longwell
- Kayla Williams
- John Mark Hansen
- Mark McClellan
- Maria de los Angeles Torres
- Anton Troianovski
- Rocco Castoro
- David Plouffe
- Pat Quinn
- Nabeel Khoury
- LZ Granderson
- Eric Schmitt
- Muhammad Yunus
- John Brennan
- Araceli Gomez-Aldana
- Danny Glover
- Terry Shumaker
- Robert Gulotty
- David Axelrod
- Michele Norris
- Ralph Lerner
- Dan Wagner
- Reid Epstein
- Nathan Law
- Tom Vilsack
- James Schamus
- Bill Bradley
- Mark Halperin
- Mick Mulvaney
- Steven Law
- Keisha Lance Bottoms
- Chris Dodd
- John Ashcroft
- José Bernardo Márquez
- David Hill
- Ian Kelly
- Mona Zhang
- Rich Trumka
- Tom Perez
- Jack Markell
- Michael Koetting
- Michael Gerson
- Timothy Shriver
- Krista Tippett
- Camille François
- Karl Kane
- Zachary Clopton
- Matea Gold
- Dan Rutherford
- Timothy McLaughlin
- Admiral Harry B. Harris
- James Leitzel
- Jay Roach
- Jennifer Jacobs
- Jackie Speier
- Johari Cole
- Ashley Spillane
- Nia-Malika Henderson
- Jim Sciutto
- Nykia Wright
- Angela Kocherga
- Ashley Cross
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Richard Joseph
- Wade Henderson
- Paul Krugman
- Jeremy Kalmanofsky
- Pete Rouse
- Christopher Krebs
- Mitch Landrieu
- Linda Thomas-Greenfield
- Amy Klobuchar
- Rick Tulsky
- Lauren Williams
- Rhymefest
- Peter Wittig
- Freddie Old Soul
- Nsé Ufot
- Harold Koh
- Ja'Mal Green
- Newt Gingrich
- Lee Miringoff
- David Nason
- Madeline Albright
- Marcenia Richards
- Marty Baron
- Pete Buttigieg
- Yolaine Civil
- Brooke Goren
- Premal Shah
- Kim Smith
- Ryan Blitstein
- Eric Lynn
- Samantha Vinograd
- Roey Gilad
- Juan Leal Mendoza
- Randall Schriver
- Jacinda Ardern
- Karen Lewis
- Neil Steinberg
- Roger Simon
- James Robinson
- Ed Miliband
- Rishi Sunak
- Laura Dove
- Ted Koppel
- Amanda Terkel
- Jeremy McCarter
- Shia Kapos
- Sergio Bendixen
- Anne Gearan
- Rajiv Shah
- Daniel Kreiss
- Kirk Dillard
- Karen Tumulty
- Richard Engel
- Myrna Perez
- Victoria Hui
- Kelly Burton
- Janice Jackson
- Glen Bolger
- Ernesto Zedillo
- Rahul Gupta
- Leana Wen
- Tony Romm
- Nahal Toosi
- Philip Swagel
- Ruth Porat
- David Binder
- Bakari Sellers
- Dave McKinney
- Peter Mansoor
- Chris Van Hollen
- Peter Hamby
- Ken Walsh
- Leonel Fernández
- Seemi Choudry
- Chad Livengood
- Anna Greenberg
- Ilana Dayan
- William Burns
- John Arnold
- Arne Duncan
- Stephen Marche
- Hang Sung Joo
- Maurice Cox
- BJay Pak
- Eric Garcetti
- Steve Edwards
- Ashley Tellis
- Patti Solis Doyle
- Dick Durbin
- John W. Hickenlooper
- Jazmine Ulloa
- Michael Sheehan
- David Orr
- Phyllis Lockett
- John Benenson
- Emma Green
- Yanilda Maria Gonzalez
- Stephanie Murphy
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