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Levi Sharpe is a podcast producer and sound designer based in Astoria, NY. He most recently was a senior producer at AT WILL MEDIA, leading the production of Wondery’s The Big Flop, a pop-culture history comedy podcast, hosted by TikTok star, Misha Brown.He is also the audio editor and engineer for the international affairs podcast, Global Dispatches.Prior, he was the senior podcast producer at DEV, where he launched the company’s podcast unit and produced, edited, and mixed their CodeNewbie, DevNews, and DevDiscuss podcasts.Previous to working at DEV, he was lead podcast producer at Gizmodo Media Group, where he helped launch their podcast unit, producing and editing Lifehacker’s Webby-nominated podcast, The Upgrade, as well as Jezebel's pop culture podcast DirtCast, and their politics show Big Time Dicks.He also sound designs and mixes narrative fiction podcasts, such as the comedy fantasy, Roommate From Hell, and the the Webby award-winning musical comedy, Propaganda.He received his master's from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, and his work has also been featured on Marketplace Tech, Marketplace Weekend, Codebreaker, Actuality, The Takeaway, Word of Mouth, and Popular Science.

Uri Friedman is a journalist. Currently, he is Managing Editor at the Atlantic Council and a contributing writer at The Atlantic magazine.Previously, Friedman was a senior staff writer at The Atlantic covering national security and global affairs and the editor of The Atlantic’s Global section. Before that, he served as the deputy managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

Dr. Tom Frieden is an infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and an administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from 2009 to 2017.

Jill Filipovic is a feminist, lawyer, and author.

Peter J. Hotez is the founding dean of The National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as well as director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of National Academies as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rabia Chaudry is an attorney, a New York Times best-selling author, and podcast host.

Juliette Kayyem is a businessperson, author, and host of the WGBH podcast The SCIF.

Robin Wright is an analyst, author, and journalist.

Heather Hurlburt is the Director of the New Models of Policy Change project at New America.

Sally Hayden is a journalist.

Jeffrey Sachs is an economist, academic, public policy analyst, professor, and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Simeon Tegel is a freelance journalist based in Lima, Peru, but also roaming regularly across Latin America. His work has been published in the Washington Post, The Independent, Vice News and, in Spanish, El Pais.

Erin Banco is a political journalist. Currently, she is a National Security Reporter at Politico, where her reporting focuses on intelligence. Previously, she was National Security Reporter at The Daily Beast.Banco's first book, "Pipe Dreams: The Plundering of Iraq’s Oil Wealth," was published in 2018.Banco received her B.A. in Journalism and in African Literature and Languages from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and her M.A. in International Media and Human Rights from Columbia University.

Jan Egeland is a diplomat, political scientist, humanitarian leader, and former Labour Party politician.

Steve Coll is a journalist, academic, and executive. Currently, he is the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.