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Greg Jacob is a partner at O’Melveny. Before rejoining the firm in 2021, Jacob served as Counsel to Vice President Pence and Deputy Assistant to the President. He directly advised the Vice President on all legal issues relating to the…

Mike Huebsch was the Wisconsin State Assembly’s 76th Speaker. He served in the Assembly from 1995-2011. In 2011 he was appointed as the 15th secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Administration in the cabinet of Governor Scott Walker. Huebsch was…

John Helmholdt joined SeyferthPR as president in 2022, after serving for nearly 15 years as executive director of communications and external affairs at Grand Rapids Public Schools. He previously co-owned the political consulting firm Strategic Communications Group, formerly Jones, Gavan…

Amanda Green-Hawkins served as a Councilmember on Allegheny County Council (2008-2015) where she represented 100,000 Pittsburgh residents, and led the passage of Countywide legislation that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression. In 2019, she was the PA Democratic…

Thomas Edsall has been a weekly contributor to the Opinion section of The New York Times since 2011. His column on strategic and demographic trends in American politics appears every Wednesday. Edsall covered politics for The Washington Post from 1981…

Dr. Borick is a nationally recognized public opinion researcher who has conducted over 300 large-scale public opinion surveys during the past two decades.  The results of these surveys have appeared in numerous periodicals including Time Magazine, The Wall St Journal,…

Kathy Bernier served in the Wisconsin State Assembly 68th district and chaired the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and elections, vice-chaired the Committee on Family Law, and served on the Aging and Long-Term Care, Agriculture, Workforce Development, Tourism, and Mining and…

Mark Bergman stepped down in July 2021 as a partner of the international law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Mark, through 7Pillars Global Insights, LLC, now comments, briefs and convenes on a range of current political, geopolitical…

Riley Berg is co-founder of Country First, a cross-partisan political movement focused on addressing the toxic tribalism plaguing American politics. A former “Big Law” litigator, Berg brings to his non-profit work more than a dozen years of experience marshaling large…

David Becker is the Executive Director and Founder of the nonpartisan, non-profit Center for Election Innovation & Research, working with election officials of both parties, all around the country, to ensure elections voters should trust, and do trust. A key…