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Byron Ruby

Byron Ruby is third year law student at Harvard Law School and a joint masters degree candidate with Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He is currently leading a working group within HLS United, a student coalition formed after the election to resist discrimination and promote civic engagement, and serving as a research assistant to Professor Noah Feldman on work related to constitutional law. Byron has a number of political experiences, first having worked on the Obama campaign in 2008, then interning in Congress in 2010, and volunteering on the 2012 Obama campaign in Virginia. This past fall, Byron spent his weekends volunteering on the ground in New Hampshire with the Clinton campaign.

Daniel Shapiro

Daniel Shapiro, Ph.D., is the author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your most Emotionally Charged Conflicts (Viking 2016). He is a world-renowned expert on negotiation and conflict resolution. He founded and directs the Harvard International Negotiation Program, which has pioneered strategies and teaching methods that have helped countless individuals, groups, and organizations around the world resolve their conflicts. He also is an associate professor in psychology at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital and affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation, where he has conducted groundbreaking research on the psychology of conflict resolution. For three years, he chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Conflict Prevention, and he has launched successful back-channel negotiations to help revitalize formal peace negotiations.

James Kloppenberg

James T. Kloppenberg is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and chair of the Social Studies program at Harvard College. His most recent books are Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (2016); Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (2nded., 2011); and The Virtues of Liberalism (1998). Current projects include “The American Democratic Tradition, 1620-2020,” and “The Long Shadow of William James,” a history of the philosophy of pragmatism from the American Civil War to the present.

Jason Corral

Jason Corral received his J.D. from Northeastern Law School in 2004 and has been admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. Dedicated to providing affordable and excellent legal representation, he proudly served as a member of the immigration team at Greater Boston Legal Services from 2005-2010. Jason served as the KIND (Kids In Need of Defense) fellow in Boston from 2009-2010. He acted as the supervising attorney at Catholic Charities of Boston from 2011-2014. Jason has received acknowledgements from the Fundacion Ritmo Guanaco in 2010 for his work with immigrant children and The National Immigration Project for his outstanding work in the immigrant community of New England following the New Bedford Factory raids. In addition to helping immigrants understand the legal pathways to citizenship, Jason is experienced in helping people who are seeking immigration status through hardships such as political asylum, unaccompanied minors, and victims of violence.

Martin Lindstrom

MARTIN LINDSTROM is a branding consultant for many of today’s best known global brands. He is the author of the international bestseller Buyology and five other books on branding and consumer behavior. In 2009, TIME magazine recognized him as among the top 100 Most Influential People in The World, and in 2015, an independent study among 30,000 marketers named him the world's #1 brand building expert. He is a frequent guest on NBC’s Today show, CNBC-TV and NPR, and he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.