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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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- Doug Chapin
- Emily Feng
- Sandeep Jauhar
- Bill Bishop
- John Podesta
- Kelley Currie
- Susan Monarez
- Rosanna Rodriguez Sanchez
- Olivia Nuzzi
- Ram Villivalam
- Daniel Simon
- Lucy Ritzmann
- Elizabeth Green
- Andre Vasquez
- Negar Mortazavi
- Doug Jones
- Sigrid Kaag
- Volodymyr Sheiko
- Yascha Mounk
- Alexandria Porter
- Alyssa Manthi
- Diego Morales
- Milan Vaishnav
- Abdelnasser Rashid
- Nubia Willman
- Shannon Dye
- Emmanuelle Elbaz-Phelps
- Muzaffar Chishti
- Divya Mehrotra
- Mark Landler
- Jeremy Ben-Ami
- Richard Hanania
- Jessica Riedl
- Ronald Vitiello
- Fritznel D. Octave
- John Carney
- Julie Creswell
- Ana Swanson
- Lisa Murkowski
- Kate Davis
- Jeevan Sharma
- Thira Lal Bhusal
- Stephen Vladeck
- Ivy Ford
- Pete Kadens
- Clarissa Ward
- Alex Wagner
- Ellen Dierenfeld
- Aziz Abu Sarah
- Jennifer Abruzzo
- Michael Brown
- Starsky Wilson
- Alicia Menendez
- Rohit Chopra
- Steven Goff
- Tonika Lewis Johnson
- Vincent Warren
- Johannes Favi
- Mattathias Schwartz
- Laura Thornton
- Zeke Miller
- Anastasia Curwood
- Hasan Piker
- Chris Murphy
- Lobsang Sangay
- Channyn Lynn Parker
- Mary Peltola
- Alejandra Solano
- James P. McGovern
- Shermann "Dilla" Thomas
- Daniel Cox
- Charles Fain Lehman
- Brian Hauss
- Timothy Martin
- Liz Johnson
- Rosa María Payá
- Laphonza Butler
- Shefali Razdan Duggal
- Michael Ricci
- Marion Nestle
- Henry Connelly
- Hina Khar
- Scott Galloway
- Mickey Dietler
- Evan Mawarire
- David Hogg
- Stanis Elsborg
- Jiore Craig
- Sam Adler-Bell
- Clay Travis
- Brian Choi
- Charlamagne Tha God
- Sarah McBride
- Glenn Loury
- Magdalene Taylor
- Carol Pritchett
- Daniel Shea
- Isabel Yamada
- Justin Ángel Knighten
- Michael Missal
- Justin Bibb
- Shalanda Young
- Yaran Zhang
- Katie Porter
- David Pressman
- Michael Tiboris
- Ali Vitali
- Matthew Sitman
- Roger Cohen
- Simina Tulbure
- Natalia Pelevina
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Annie Linskey
- Maurizio Caprara
- Dalibor Rohac
- Lis Smith
- Yangyang Cheng
- Magen Inon
- David Herszenhorn
- Tom Clark
- Miriam Jordan
- Chris LaCivita
- James Carville
- Nicholas Jacobs
- Reid Cherlin
- Michèle Pierre-Louis
- Caleb Cage
- Katherine Tai
- Peter Staley
- Jon Gensler
- Annika Silva-Leander
- Ken Buck
- Stephen Richer
- Joe Grogan
- Dan Markey
- Ken Cuccinelli
- William Howell
- Pete Kadens
- Morgan Ortagus
- Katie Tobin
- Barbara Lee
- Ernest Moniz
- Jocelyn Benson
- Claire Atkin
- Damian Paletta
- Anniken Huitfeldt
- Marko Papic
- Paul Nantulya
- Mike Needham
- Josh Earnest
- Greg Pratt
- Valerie Smith Boyd
- Peter Koutoujian
- Richard Sandor
- Jordan Sun
- Génesis Dávila
- Amy Francetic
- Lamar Moore
- Grace Olmstead
- Dale King
- Rob Portman
- Silvia Rivera
- Tim Marema
- Michael Strautmanis
- Manu Meel
- Whitney Kimball Coe
- Tony Pipa
- Matt Yglesias
- Abby Goodnough
- Samuel Hammond
- Janie Hipp
- Joe Manchin
- Beth Macy
- Stephen Heintz
- Michael Smith
- Benya Kraus Beacom
- Brad Hershbein
- Xochitl Torres Small
- Whitley Yates
- Tom Cotton
- John Kasich
- Christopher Huff
- Phil Levy
- Laura Arce
- Mike Frerichs
- Merle Erickson
- Rachel Bronson
- Greg Pratt
- Nicholas Kristof
- Lawrence Summers
- Elizabeth Dozier
- Eric Swalwell
- Charles Rivkin
- Ronald Johnson
- Jennifer Weiss Wolf
- Ertharin Cousin
- Raumesh Akbari
- Donald Verrilli
- Sarah Bryner
- Vicki Heyman
- Andrew McCabe
- Lydia Polgreen
- Adam Kinzinger
- Natalie Jaresko
- Cecilia Kang
- Faiz Shakir
- Roger Clegg
- Robert Costa
- John Mearsheimer
- Crystal Orderson
- Ashley Parker
- Jane Coaston
- Justin Folsom
- Charles Lipson
- Jacqueline Mason
- John Harwood
- Joe Lackhart
- Heather Cherone
- Andre Tse
- Eli Attie
- David French
- Ronald Jackson
- J.A. Adande
- Katie Packer-Gage
- Dilma Rousseff
- Paul Kane
- Dylan Wells
- Todd Purdum
- Bryan Stevenson
- Chris Lu
- Roberto Gonzales
- Gina Raimondo
- Ann Marie Lipinski
- Peter Wehner
- Andrew Srulevitch
- Harper Reed
- Grace Hauck
- Tyler Massias
- Sanjay Srivatsan
- Ben Smith
- Neera Tanden
- George Packer
- Sophia King
- John McConnell
- Jim Durkin
- Dan Caldwell
- Tim Ryan
- Nikki Haley
- Dan Sinker
- Bob Daiber
- Arianna Huffington
- Whit Ayres
- Athena Jones
- Brie Loskota
- Andrew Flores
- Selwyn Rogers
- Bradley Whitford
- Darcel Rockett
- Kat Atwater
- Fiona Hill
- Jessica Yellin
- Eric Holder
- Justin Amash
- Julie Hirschfield Davis
- Eric Fehrnstrom
- Susan Kennedy
- Ian Haney-Lopez
- Mike Memoli
- Crystal Coats
- Michael Eric Dyson
- Sean Spicer
- Chloe Maxmin
- Susan Gzesh
- Cecilia Muñoz
- Mark Campbell
- Stephen Goldsmith
- Robert Bauer
- P.J. Huffstutter
- Peter Hart
- Jennifer Duffy
- Bob Fioretti
- Mandy Grunwald
- Vanita Gupta
- H.E. Send Soukhathivong
- Tresa Undem
- Vin Weber
- Gilad Edelman
- Lawrence O'Donnell
- Christopher Weissberg
- Gerald Rosenberg
- Evan Osnos
- Ed Gillespie
- Richard Stengal
- John Boyer
- John Kerry
- Michael Tafolla
- Rachel Stassen-Berger
- Rob Saliterman
- Neil Newhouse
- Stephanie Cutter
- Dennis Wilder
- Raj Shah
- Jodi Rudoren
- Erik Tillman
- Liz Plank
- Rohan Sandhu (AB '12)
- Charlene Carruthers
- Franklin Gamwell
- Michael Rubin
- Eve Ewing
- Robin Kniech
- Rahm Emanuel
- Samuel Charap
- Beau Willimon
- Bill Barr
- Brandis Friedman
- Jon Favreau
- Ji-Yeon Yuh
- Hanna Rosin
- Kelly Magsamen
- Barton Gellman
- Christopher Reed
- Ngozi Ezike
- Madeline Doubek
- Marc Elias
- Kathleen Belew
- April Ponnuru
- David Ansari
- Evan Bayh
- Vuyiswa Tulelo
- Zach Stepp
- Julie Pace
- Tim Miller
- Robert Pape
- Terry Clark
- Robert Rivkin
- Elissa Slotkin
- Lauren Underwood
- Mervyn King
- Rachel DeWoskin
- Jeffrey Anderson
- V Spehar
- Pramila Jayapal
- Bruce Lincoln
- Dina Smeltz
- Fareed Zakaria
- Steve LaTourette
- Yuval Levin
- Kate Brown
- Monica Davey
- Lisa Madigan
- Moustafa Bayoumi
- Denys Shmyhal
- Chris Lindsey
- Tom Schenk
- Ron Brownstein
- Eliana Johnson
- Brad Raffensperger
- Tom Price
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- Dali Yang
- David Cole
- Kate Grossman
- Jon Sawyer
- Grover Norquist
- Dan Wager
- Jeffrey Bader
- Shirin Ebadi
- John Temple
- Dawn Turner
- Larry Tramutola
- Kim Wolske
- Steven Greenhouse
- Dipesh Chakrabarty
- Melba Lara
- Coral Davenport
- Nathaniel Rich
- Will Hurd
- Dominique de Villepin
- Mary Mitchell
- Mack McLarty
- Asiaha Butler
- Gary Samore
- Quinn Rallins
- Constance Hammer
- Emily Boening
- Kool Moe Dee
- John Farrell
- Denis McDonough
- Michael Hancock
- Jonathan Martin
- Michael Puente
- Megan McArdle
- Alia Bilal
- Kaitlan Collins
- Mark Holden
- Ben Austen
- David Bushby
- Suzanne Kianpour
- Bechara Choucair
- Jack Kingston
- Adam Green
- Richard Schiff
- Alicia Garza
- Lis Smith
- Larry Sabato
- Jill Lawrence
- Luis Martinez
- Elyse Samuels
- Matt Strawn
- George Little
- Tony Arnold
- September Hargrove
- Sean Morales-Doyle
- Benito Goff
- Erin Simpson
- David Petraeus
- Ben LaBolt
- Heather Steans
- Matt Viser
- Dennis Ross
- Kevin McCarthy
- Michael Kang
- Donna More
- James Clapper
- Beth Reinhard
- Mark Leibovich
- Aziz Huq
- Larry McEnerney
- Sasha Issenberg
- Juliana Smoot
- Susan Page
- Irene Romulo
- Tom Perriello
- Doan Tran
- Cheryl Corley
- Victor Dickson
- Yoani Sanchez
- Scott Allard
- Dan Glickman
- Rachel Mikva
- Tony Fabrizio
- Erin Simpson
- Brenda Gianiny
- Michael Ignatieff
- Alan Simpson
- Claire McCaskill
- Rami Nashashibi
- Andrew Card
- Scott Carter
- Leigh Ann Caldwell
- Daniel Isom
- Daniel Shapiro
- Spencer Zwick
- Tera Hurst
- Briana Payton
- Roseanna Ander
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Brian Newby
- Patrick Gaspard
- Laura Chinchilla
- Sue Rezin
- Prexy Nesbitt
- Anne Dodge
- Steven Chu
- Jason Furman
- Adrienne Green
- Mara Kiesling
- Jonathan Haidt
- Eboo Patel
- John Campbell
- Nathaniel Persily
- Josh Shapiro
- Christina Romer
- Lincoln Davis
- Jose Torres
- Randy Brinson
- Ellen Cushing
- Kurt Summers
- Kyle Lierman
- Helga Barth
- Chuck Hagel
- Pam Anderson
- David Muir
- Benji Backer
- Tad Devine
- Martin Whalley
- Willie Cochran
- Emma Sky
- Lauren Baer
- David Siders
- Jim Warren
- Michael Bennet
- Austan Goolsbee
- Justin Trudeau
- Jade Begay
- Matt Rhoades
- Lena Sun
- Kambium Buckner
- Jennifer Williams
- Jack Abramoff
- Michael Nutter
- Peter Meijer
- Wendy Sherman
- Laura Washington
- Aaron Hanlon
- Michael Dawson
- Jake Sullivan
- Brenetta Howell Barrett
- Jake Braun
- Jeanne Ives
- Adam Schiff
- Kerry Luft
- Luis Gutiérrez
- Trudy Vincent
- Vincent Romero
- Lael Brainerd
- Greer Donley
- Erick Erickson
- Djerdj Matkovic
- Mark Mazzetti
- David Gregory
- Infiniti Gant
- Charles Hales
- Nicholas Confessore
- Jens Ludwig
- Tim Alberta
- Anita Alvarez
- Charles Newell
- John King
- Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean
- Jan Crawford
- Bryan Samuels
- Michael Hawthorne
- David Miliband
- Chase Strangio
- Mark Falkoff
- Valerie Jarrett
- Anna Galland
- Sheryl WuDunn
- Emily Schmall
- Gary Slutkin
- Devshi Mehrotra
- Marvin Zonis
- Jon Huntsman
- Tracy Meares
- Martha Moore
- Katherine Baicker
- Charles Stewart
- Abby Phillip
- Cassidy Hutchinson
- Nate Silver
- Todd Stern
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier
- Bill Keller
- Steve Schmidt
- Tracey Meares
- Andrew Yang
- Anthony Berglund
- Haki Madhubuti
- Claudia Morell
- Franklin Foer
- John Anzalone
- Michael Coleman
- Tom Balanoff
- Larry Tye
- Isaac Troncoso
- Ali Adeed-al-Naemi
- Michael Pfleger
- Jerry Joyce
- Craig Kafura
- Delmar Gillus
- Genevieve Lakier
- Josh Meyer
- Micah White
- Jose Cuisia
- Jesper Møller Sørensen
- Cornell Belcher
- Deborah Seligsohn
- Michael Flaherty
- Dana Perino
- Ed Henry
- Kim Foxx
- Nico Perrino
- Sadia Sindhu
- David Chalian
- Shaka Senghor
- Cece McDonald
- Nancy Scola
- Timothy Sini
- Garry Kasparov
- Quinton Lucas
- James Robinson
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Mary Katharine Ham
- Steve Koch
- Dan Montgomery
- Maria Pinto
- KK Ottesen
- Gregg Hurwitz
- Jen O'Malley
- Asma Khalid
- JB Pritzker
- Robert Strauss
- Karen Dunn
- Alex Seitz-Wald
- Cécile Shea
- Nathan Gonzales
- David Rhodes
- Rebecca Sive
- Chip Griffin
- Pete Souza
- Jelani Cobb
- Jennifer Granholm
- Anna Massoglia
- Melinda Bush
- Mitt Romney
- Shane Goldmacher
- Judith Gough
- John Heilemann
- Kim Hart
- Tim Geithner
- Mike Pence
- Roland Lescure
- Emily Landon
- Anna Holmes
- Mvemba Phezo Dizolele
- Vanessa Friedman
- Isaac Lee
- E.J. Dionne
- J. Stapleton Roy
- Alex Conant
- John Rowe
- Steve James
- Nicholas Stephanopolous
- Chenhao Tan
- Steve Copley
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
- Ruth Bloch Rubin
- David Becker
- Caitlin Huey-Burns
- Todd Young
- Ammar Ghouse
- Peter Shumlin
- Elgie Sims
- Joe Lockhart
- Charles Schwab
- Angela Glover Blackwell
- William Baude
- Ana Navarro
- Bill Conway
- Mary Ann Ahern
- Emily Norman
- John J. MacAloon
- Rosa DeLauro
- Ricardo Lagos
- Rachad Bouhlal
- Dequa Aden
- Cass Sunstein
- Sister Simone Campbell
- Mo Ryan
- Pete Ricketts
- Shani Hilton
- Lotfullah Najafizada
- David Sanger
- Robin Kelly
- Brent Earnest
- Elie Wiesel
- Alton Miller
- Forrest Claypool
- Paul Alivisatos
- Alicia Downs
- Stacey Philbrick Yadav
- Courtney Kube
- Graco Ramírez
- Melissa Mark-Viverito
- James McAuley
- John McCain
- Glenn Simpson
- Joshua Bivens
- Gulwari Passarly
- Alex Wagner
- Emilio Kourí
- Michael Klingensmith
- Catherine Ross
- Nadine Woodward
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Peter Kuznick
- Bruce Japsen
- Bill Daley
- Robert Marshall
- Dave Price
- Peter Flaherty
- Stacy Davis Gates
- Marty Nesbitt
- Jake Tapper
- John Patty
- Garry McCarthy
- Alexa Ura
- Ivo Daalder
- Ally Mutnick
- Nick Shields
- Lolly Bowean
- Elizabeth Wilner
- Huma Abedin
- Mark Sanford
- Todd Larson
- Sue Kelly
- Betsy Hodges
- Richard Irvin
- Gretchen Crosby Sims
- TA. Frank
- David Leonhardt
- Christine Hurley
- Bakari Kitwana
- Arionne Nettles
- Ben Haddad
- Peter Baker
- Lena Tom
- Jenna Golden
- Michael Greenstone
- Sean Sweeney
- Julián Castro
- Salih Noor
- Ann Borders
- Stephen Hayes
- Diane Benscoter
- Richard Hasen
- Michael Shear
- Bruce Katz
- Javier Garza
- Jesse Moore
- Geoffrey Cowan
- Greg Jacob
- Luigi Zingales
- Ricky Holder
- Ro Khanna
- Julianna Goldman
- Mike Pompeo
- Amara Enyia
- Daniel Aschheim
- James Bennet
- Nneka Jones Tapia
- Zeenat Rahman
- Josie Duffy Rice
- Eric Schmidt
- Oliver Stone
- M. Todd Henderson
- Patrick Murphy
- Mike Lux
- Tony Blinken
- Cole Bolton
- David Jolly
- Sheri Mecklenberg
- Josip Josko-Paro
- Shermin Kruse
- Jackie Calmes
- Martin Baron
- Tyler Kingkade
- Jose Lopez
- Phil Cline
- Ryan Hass
- Alex Hernandez
- William Schweiker
- Yarimar Bonilla
- Tom Brokaw
- Timothy Parkin
- William McRaven
- Sheila Simon
- Elena Kagan
- Tio Hardiman
- Bob Inglis
- Chuck Todd
- Maurice Obstfeld
- Ed Sullivan
- Meghan McCarty
- Laura Barrón-López
- Tammy Duckworth
- Dake Kang
- Ramesh Ponnuru
- Tex Dozier
- Christine Dudley
- Carrie Levine
- Chris Coleman
- Jamie Dimon
- Tom Ginsburg
- Jay Newton-Small
- Philip Revzin
- Sol Flores
- Edward Lazear
- Abdul Dosunmu
- Jason Seawright
- Sarah Kliff
- Bruce Heyman
- Maria Latella
- Jeff Perry
- Evan Pérez
- Liesl Hickey
- Jack Lobel
- Oswaldo Gomez
- Bruce Rauner
- Eliot Spitzer
- Mary Lou Finley
- Christopher Thomas
- Alison Cuddy
- Mike Murphy
- Kareem Butler
- Ray LaHood
- Sara Burnett
- Rob Wildeboer
- Maria Ramirez
- Shibani Mahtani
- Helene Gayle
- Tammy Patrick
- Keith Pekau
- Jorge Ramos
- Beto O'Rourke
- Guy Benson
- Soren Baker
- Karine Jean-Pierre
- Natalie Palmer
- Zulfat Suara
- Micere Keels
- Blase Cupich
- Ralph Becker
- Bob Reiter
- Bethany McLean
- Diane McWhorter
- Chris Bury
- Michael Silverstein
- Nicole Bibbins Sedaca
- Jonah Goldberg
- Kafi Moragne-Patterson
- Hassana Alidou
- Theresa Cardinal Brown
- Josh Connolly
- Casey Newton
- Louise Fréchette
- Cody Keenan
- Bill DeBlasio
- Simon Rogers
- Jason Rezaian
- Victor Shi
- Karen Finney
- Lawrence Hill
- Ben Domenech
- Tom Donilon
- Alison LaCroix
- Lori Montgomery
- Beth McCann
- Dan Rose
- Sarah Hurwitz
- Hannah Dominguez
- Tim Evans
- Ben Kesling
- John Lindback
- McKay Coppins
- Craig Futterman
- Brian Duncan
- Michael Smerconish
- Adam Harris
- Alexi McCammond
- Joel Ebert
- Enrique Acevedo
- Mary McCord
- Mark Blumenthal
- Bob Levey
- Stuart Stevens
- Sophie Pedder
- Jeffrey Toobin
- Brian Citro
- Jonathan Zittrain
- Katie McCormick-Lelyveld
- Michael Collins
- Dikembe Mutombo
- Alex Lundry
- Saul Shorr
- John King
- Laura Rosenberger
- Lois Romano
- John Deutch
- Peter Overby
- Roderick Sawyer
- Mary Louise Kelly
- Frances Haugen
- John Mahama
- Craig Silverman
- Jon Stewart
- Cathy Cohen
- Gillian Sorensen
- Jim VandeHei
- Nicole Newnham
- Žygimantas Pavilionis
- Tom Rosenstiel
- Seth Flaxman
- Tania Guerrero
- Mike Fenzel
- Brian Stelter
- William Martin
- Gary Hart
- Adrienne LeFrance
- Eliseo Medina
- Matt Masterson
- Mark Ritchie
- Robert Callahan
- John Coles
- Nate Galbreath
- Vanessa Sheridan
- Mitch Daniels
- David Frum
- Astead Herndon
- Kassandra Frederique
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Jeb Bush
- Atul Gawande
- Lincoln Chafee
- Mary Schapiro
- Heidi Heitkamp
- Ann Ravel
- Jonathan Alter
- Ken Vogel
- Robin Steans
- Lorella Praeli
- Amisha Patel
- Jane Fonda
- Pat Devaney
- Carl Bernstein
- Karen Bass
- Gerard Araud
- Ian Bogost
- Maria del Rosario Acosta Lopez
- Elbert Huang
- Ryan Busse
- Jeffrey Goldberg
- Stephen Ware
- Sam Feist
- Kathleen Sebelius
- Roberto Mazza
- Gordon Brown
- Robert Bruno
- Meg Kelly
- Maggie Haberman
- Joe Walsh
- Jeffrey Stern
- Michael Mullen
- Daniel Biss
- Chad King
- James Jeffrey
- Nancy Pelosi
- Eric Slauter
- Terry Edmonds
- Dennis Hutchinson
- Nicholas Berggruen
- Leon Rogers
- Christine Wormuth
- Scott Anderson
- Ben Rhodes
- Nancy-Anne DeParle
- Cory Booker
- Dhammika Dharmapala
- Jason Scott
- David Maraniss
- Chris Christie
- Willie Wilson
- Rachel Sumekh
- Diana Greene Foster
- Terri Brady
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Rana Ayyub
- Karrie Karahalios
- Rick Santorum
- Tanya Clay-House
- Steven Pearlstein
- David Fahrenthold
- Karen Abuzayd
- Jeff Flake
- Annie Sweeney
- Paul Staniland
- Natalie Vernon
- Kenneth Pollack
- John Bolton
- Otts Bolisay
- Jan Schakowsky
- Alicia Sams
- Josh Tetrick
- Liz Cheney
- Kelly Ayotte
- Jake Auchincloss
- Kevin Madden
- Gretchen Whitmer
- Noreen Ahmed-Ullah
- Carrie Johnson
- Charles Ramsey
- Tom Davis
- Samantha Power
- Tom Harkin
- Thomas Fisher
- Stanley McChrystal
- Ty Cobb
- Patricia Lopez
- Terry Branstad
- Sonal Shah
- Evan Feigenbaum
- Don Lamb
- Angie Craig
- Ronald Neumann
- Glenn Greenwald
- Anthony Aslou
- Nick Stephanopolous
- Michelle Morrison
- Keri Blakinger
- Eugene Volokh
- MarySue Barrett
- Hadi Esfahani
- John Weaver
- Jonathan Black
- Jon Ralston
- Bill Browder
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Avery Pierson
- Tim Knowles
- Rosanna Warren
- Juan Williams
- Eliza Newlin Carney
- Don Rose
- Gery Chico
- Charlie Spies
- Helen Krieble
- Osita Nwanevu (AB'15, MPP'16)
- Blair Imani
- J.D. Vance
- Alastair Campbell
- Max Read
- Brian Leiter
- Tim Phillips
- Richard Miller
- Tevi Troy
- Lily Rocha
- Arthur Brooks
- Steve Cicala
- Tom Dart
- John Inazu
- Natalia Brzezinski
- Richard Stengel
- Al Gore
- Peter Roskam
- Marcus Yam
- Gary Herrigel
- Heather McTeer Toney
- Al Cardenas
- Yinka Adegoke
- Kenneth Trujillo
- Evan McMullin
- Jalil Abbas-Jilani
- Betsy Fischer Martin
- Anand Grover
- Courtney Cobbs
- Khalil Marrar
- Steve Chapman
- Perry Bacon
- Katie Telford
- John Delaney
- Jay Inslee
- Jowei Chen
- Michael Scherer
- Bonnie Glick
- Edward Snowden
- Chokwe Antar Lumumba
- Farah Pandith
- Hal Weitzman
- Will Howell
- David Wessel
- Jennifer Steinhauer
- Asa Hutchinson
- Nancy Chi Cantalupo
- Camille Cypher
- Caroline Kennedy
- Maria Elena Salinas
- Cindy Agustin
- Elin Betanzo
- Emily Bazelon
- Jim Hodges
- Dana Peterson
- Jon Lovett
- Bruce Reed
- Christian Mitchell
- Al Franken
- Kim Dozier
- Prahanth Parameswaran
- Timuel Black
- Jon Lee Anderson
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Hannah Allam
- S.E. Cupp
- Gerald Butts
- Rahul Gandhi
- Jeff Zucker
- Doug Ducey
- Frank O. Bowman
- Lilly Jay
- Reihan Salam
- Chris Matthews
- Patrice Harris
- Chancelor Bennett
- Jared Cohen
- Abbie Richards
- Brian Deese
- Catherine Bertini
- Randall Kroszner
- Paul Ryan
- Carl Hulse
- Jeff Weaver
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Jacob Furst
- Shuja Nawaz
- Thomas Friedman
- Rebecca Rosen
- Jason DeSanto
- Dan Mihalopoulos
- Sally Yates
- Gina M. Samuels
- Yousef Munayyer
- Roberta Jacobson
- Samar Ali
- Bob Mandell
- Patrick McHenry
- Ben Rawlence
- Ron Grossman
- Natalie Moore
- Brandon Johnson
- Sumaya Bouadi
- David Suro
- Jamie Fly
- Wolfgang A. Waldner
- Nick Schifrin
- Kai Ryssdal
- Colm O'Muircheartaigh
- William Cavanaugh
- Symone Sanders
- Chris Cousins
- Kirsten Lodal
- Julio Rivera
- Jennifer Griffin
- Karen Tumulty
- Kirk Dillard
- Daniel Kreiss
- Rajiv Shah
- Anne Gearan
- Sergio Bendixen
- Shia Kapos
- Jeremy McCarter
- Amanda Terkel
- Ted Koppel
- Laura Dove
- Rishi Sunak
- Ed Miliband
- James Robinson
- Roger Simon
- Neil Steinberg
- Karen Lewis
- Jacinda Ardern
- Randall Schriver
- Juan Leal Mendoza
- Roey Gilad
- Samantha Vinograd
- Eric Lynn
- Ryan Blitstein
- Kim Smith
- Premal Shah
- Brooke Goren
- Yolaine Civil
- Pete Buttigieg
- Marty Baron
- Marcenia Richards
- Madeline Albright
- David Nason
- Lee Miringoff
- Newt Gingrich
- Ja'Mal Green
- Harold Koh
- Nsé Ufot
- Freddie Old Soul
- Peter Wittig
- Rhymefest
- Lauren Williams
- Rick Tulsky
- Amy Klobuchar
- Linda Thomas-Greenfield
- Mitch Landrieu
- Christopher Krebs
- Pete Rouse
- Jeremy Kalmanofsky
- Paul Krugman
- Wade Henderson
- Richard Joseph
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Ashley Cross
- Angela Kocherga
- Nykia Wright
- Jim Sciutto
- Nia-Malika Henderson
- Ashley Spillane
- Johari Cole
- Jackie Speier
- Jennifer Jacobs
- Jay Roach
- James Leitzel
- Admiral Harry B. Harris
- Timothy McLaughlin
- Dan Rutherford
- Matea Gold
- Zachary Clopton
- Karl Kane
- Camille François
- Krista Tippett
- Timothy Shriver
- Michael Gerson
- Michael Koetting
- Jack Markell
- Tom Perez
- Rich Trumka
- Mona Zhang
- Ian Kelly
- David Hill
- José Bernardo Márquez
- John Ashcroft
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