Al Green is currently a member of Congress, representing Texas’ 9th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He has represented this district since 2005, and he currently serves on the Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security.

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Congressman Green earned his J.D. from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He served as Justice of the Peace in Harris County, Texas, from 1977 to 2004.

In Congress, Congressman Green is a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) as well as the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Congressman Green holds memberships in several community organizations, including Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. Additionally, Congressman Al Green previously served as president of the Houston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

James K. Galbraith is the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. Previously, Dr. Galbraith was executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s, and prior to that, worked as an economist for the House Banking Committee. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from 1996 to 2016 and directs The University of Texas Inequality Project. He is also a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Dr. Galbraith’s economic research interests include inequality, development, and social policy. His accolades and roles are numerous and far-flung: From 1993 to 1997 Galbraith served as chief technical adviser for Macroeconomic Reform to the State Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China. In 2010, he was elected to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2014 he was co-winner of the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economics. In 2020 he received the Veblen-Commons Award of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. A Marshall Scholar, Dr. Galbraith is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Texas Philosophical Society; and a member of the Free Economic Society, an organization of economists in Russia. His most recent books, both published in 2016, are Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe and Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Jennifer Lee is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University and the 2022-23 Robbert Dijkgraaf Member at the Institute for Advanced Study. An award-winning author and an experienced public commentator, she has been uniquely successful in placing the study of Asian Americans centrally in the discipline.

Her most recent book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, garnered five national book awards. In it, she and her co-author dispel the cultural fallacy that Asian Americans excel in education because they value education more than other groups. Her research has also focused on immigrant entrepreneurship and ethnic conflict, intermarriage and multiracial identification, and the group position of Asian Americans in the latest war on affirmative action.

In her most recent project, she tackles the surge in anti-Asian violence that has affected 1 in 6 Asian American adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the present, Dr. Lee argues that we must reckon with the past, including an under-recognized legacy of anti-Asian violence, misogyny, and exclusion that dates back more than 150 years, and is embedded in our laws, our institutions, and in our history of science and medicine. She recently presented this research to the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

Jennifer Lee is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and the Obama Presidency Oral History. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a Fellow at the Center for Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and a Fulbright Scholar to Japan.

Her essays and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, Science, and The Brookings Institution, among other venues.

Jennifer Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University and the head of the Social Perception and Communication Lab. Dr. Richeson’s research examines phenomena related to cultural diversity: how people experience racial and other forms of societal diversity, how they navigate individual interracial interactions, and the political consequences of the increasing racial/ethnic diversity of the United States. Richeson’s work hopes to develop a better understanding of intergroup relations and how best to foster cohesive, culturally diverse environments.

More recently, Dr. Richeson’s research has considered people’s treatment of and responses to societal inequality and injustice, examining multiple consequences of managing the threats associated with being the target of discrimination. Her op-eds on these topics and more have been published in many national print and online outlets.

Among other accolades, Dr. Richeson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2015) and the American Philosophical Society (elected 2022).

Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at both the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. She was formerly the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), and she is also Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Dr. Levi is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and seven books, including Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press, 1988); Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press, 1998); and Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage, 2005). In the Interest of Others (Princeton, 2013), co-authored with John Ahlquist, explores how organizations provoke member willingness to act beyond material interest. In 2015 she published the co-authored Labor Standards in International Supply Chains (Edward Elgar), a reflection of her work on understanding and improving supply chains so that the consumable goods are produced in a sustainable manner. Her most recent book, co-authored with Frederick Carugati, is A Moral Political Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Dr. Levi’s many accolades across the sciences and social sciences include winning the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize, serving as president of the American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005, receiving the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science in 2014, giving the Elinor Ostrom Memorial Lecture in 2017, and in 2018 receiving an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Dr. Levi became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2002, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, the Robert Dahl Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2017, a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018, and a member of the British Academy in 2022.

Samuel Myers, Jr., is an economist and Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

His research has explored racial discrimination in a number of different arenas, notably law enforcement, procurement and contracting, housing, faculty employment, food availability, family structure, and government aid.

Dr. Myers has previously served as president of the Association of Public Policy and Management and the National Economic Association, from which he also received the organization’s highest honor, the Samuel J. Westerfield Award, in 2015. Among other accolades, Dr. Myers also received the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) and Sage Publishing.

Timothy M. (Tim) Smeeding is the Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1983-2006, he was the founding director of the Luxembourg Income Study, and from 2008–2014 he was director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW Madison. Dr. Smeeding is currently chairing the National Academies of Science consensus study panel on an integrated system on statistics to compare the income, consumption, and wealth for the same people.

Dr. Smeeding is a multi-disciplinary scholar with articles that have appeared in the top journals in economics, sociology, political science, policy analysis, demography, social and applied statistics, health care, education and science more generally. His recent work has been on inequality in income wealth and consumption for the same individuals, social and economic mobility across generations, inequality of income, consumption and wealth, a child allowance for the United States, and most recently racial differences in debt and wealth accumulation.

Among other accolades, Dr. Smeeding is the 2017 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He recently won the 2022 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics, and the 2022 University of Wisconsin Hilldale Award in the Social Sciences . He has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Advance Study in Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Warren Mosler is an American economist and theorist, and one of the leading voices in the field of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). An entrepreneur and financial professional, Mosler has spent the past 40 years gaining an insider’s knowledge of monetary operations. He co-founded AVM, a broker/dealer providing advanced financial services to large institutional accounts and the Illinois Income Investors (III) family of investment funds in 1982, which he turned over to his partners at the end of 1997.

He is a co-founder of the Center for Full Employment And Price Stability at University of Missouri-Kansas City and the founder of Mosler Automotive. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Franklin University Switzerland, and in 2014 was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He has been attributed with creating Mosler’s law that states, “there is no financial crisis so deep that a sufficiently large fiscal adjustment cannot deal with it.” Mosler is also the author of “The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy.”