Annual Center event featuring global security thought leaders. Learn more: New America

Col. (ret) Isaiah Wilson, President, Joint Special Operations University, decorated combat veteran with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and author of "Thinking beyond War: Civil Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the…

Yi-Ling Liu, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, The New Yorker, and elsewhere

Theodore R. Johnson, Senior Fellow, Director of the Fellows Program, Brennan Center for Justice, former National Fellow at New America, retired Commander in the United States Navy, author of forthcoming "When the Stars Begin to…

Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, author of multiple books, including "Cool War: The Future of Global Competition" and "Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do…

Pardis Mahdavi, Dean of Social Sciences, ASU, author of multiple books including "Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives" and Mi-Ai Parrish, Sue Clark-Johnson Professor in Media Innovation and…

Craig Calhoun, ASU University Professor of Social Sciences, former director and president of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), author of many books including the forthcoming "Degenerations of Democracy…

David Scheffer, Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights and former Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes…

Lauren Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction, including: “Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future,” winner of the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and “Radioactive:…