Julia Azari
Julia Azari is an associate professor of political science at Marquette University. She is the author of Delivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate (Cornell University Press, 2014). Her scholarly work has also appeared in Statistics in Public Policy, the ANNALS of the American Academy for Political and Social Science, and Perspectives on Politics. She is a contributor to the political science blog The Mischiefs of Faction and a contributor at FiveThirtyEight.com. She is the inaugural winner of the American Political Science Association's award for best public-facing scholar. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.
Lee Drutman
Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America. He is the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America (Oxford University Press 2020), and The Business of America is Lobbying (Oxford University Press, 2015) and winner of the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award, given for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy.” He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
James Wallner
James Wallner is a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, where he writes about the theory and practice of democratic politics with an emphasis on Congress, political parties, and the federal policy process. He also teaches in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. James is the author of three books: The Death of Deliberation: Gridlock and the Politics of Effort in the United States Senate (Lexington Books, 2020), On Parliamentary War: Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the United States Senate (University of Michigan Press, 2017), and The Death of Deliberation: Partisanship and Polarization in the United States Senate (Lexington Books, 2013). He has a Ph.D. in politics from the Catholic University of America.
Shannon Lynch
Shannon Lynch works in the production studio at New America as an associate producer and audio engineer. Her primary duties include producing podcasts and overseeing live audio production at New America events. Before joining New America, Shannon worked as a producer on a political news show at SiriusXM. She holds a master's degree from American University in Audio Technology and a bachelor's degree in Government from Georgetown University.
Sarah Jacob
Sarah Jacob is a Program Associate for New America's Political Reform Program. Jacob's professional experience ranges from local civic engagement to emerging technology ethics. She has worked on local student lobbying efforts, as well as NSF projects concerning data privacy and online disinformation. Prior to joining New America, Jacob worked at NDI for their Democracy and Technology team. There, she co-authored a report on the quality of information online in Nigeria and worked on internet freedom issues and generative AI policy. Jacob holds a bachelor's degree in International Studies from the University of Washington.