Winona LaDuke is Anishinaabe, a writer, an economist, a hemp farmer and a Barn Raiser Contributing Editor. LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. She is a co-curator at the Giiwedinong Treaty Rights and Culture Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota, and owner of Winona's Hemp.
Tom O'Connor is a graduate journalism student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is doing an externship with the Center for Media and Democracy as part of his master's program.
Robert Reich is the former Secretary of Labor, chair of Common Cause, and co-founder of The American Prospect, the Economic Policy Institute, and Inequality Media.
David is the co-founder of Sludge and executive director of the Participatory Politics Foundation. PPF created OpenCongress, the most-visited nonprofit site for tracking bills and campaign donations in the U.S. Congress. Later open-source projects included AskThem and NYC Councilmatic. David is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Katherine Knisely is a research assistant at the Center for Media and Democracy and a senior at the University of St. Andrews, where she studies Modern History. Her research focuses on the global climate and water crises, as well as American foreign policy.
David A. Super is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Economics at Georgetown University Law Center, where he studies constitutional, legislative, and administrative law.
Ashley is a research assistant with the Center for Media and Democracy. She is a senior in Journalism/Legal Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
