Guest Speakers
Our guests have included some of the top thinkers in the country.
Here is a partial list.
Gretchen Whitmer
Governor of Michigan, lawyer, an educator, former prosecutor, State Representative and Senator.
Katie Hobbs
Governor of Arizona, lawyer, former AZ Secretary of State, State Senator and state Rep
Mike McFaul
Professor in International Studies at Stanford & former US Ambassador to Russia
Francisco “Cisco” Aguilar
Nevada Secretary of State, lawyer and businessman.
John Dean
Author, TV commentator, Nixon White House Counsel and star witness for the Watergate hearings.
Paul Solman
Author and PBS News Hour correspondent, winner of 8 Emmys and 4 Peabody awards.
Rudy Salas
Candidate for 22nd Congressional District and California State Assemblyman from 2012-2022.
Ben Tyson
Campaign organizer, Vote from Home co-founder and CFO of Good Fight Political, Inc.
Dan Morain
California political journalist and noted author.
Eleni Kounalakis
California Lt. Governor, businesswoman, former US Ambassador to Hungary, and candidate for Governor.
Simon Rosenberg
Political strategist and founder of New Democrat Network and the New Policy Institute
Cliff Albright
Longtime activist, Co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter Fund
Marc Elias
Well-known voting rights attorney, TV commentator, and founder of Democracy Docket.
Josh Harder
California Congressional representative since 2018, former venture capitalist and business professor.
Jamal Watkins
Longtime community organizer, activist and currently Senior Vice President at the NAACP.
Norm Eisen
Sr. Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Exec. Chair of US Democracy Center, attorney and former diplomat
Scott Forman
Longtime activist and Vote Forward founder and executive director.
Jocelyn Benson
Secretary of State of Michigan, activist & former dean of Wayne State University Law School
Scott Galloway
Professor of Marketing at NYU, best-selling author and co-host of Pivot and Prof G podcasts.
Larry Diamond
Professor, author and leading expert in democracy studies at Stanford University.
Josh Shapiro
Governor of Pennsylvania, former state Attorney General and Pennsylvania State Rep.
Mike Levin
U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district since 2019.
Pamela S. Karlan
American legal scholar, principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division, US DoJ.
Charlotte Hill
Professor and senior researcher for elections and voting at UC Berkeley
Steve Simon
Minnesota's Secretary of State since 2015 and previously served in the state House of Representatives.
Jefrey Pollock
Expert pollster and Founding Partner and President of Global Strategy Group
Maggie Toulouse Oliver
Secretary of State of New Mexico, former county clerk and community organizer.