MARK FENSTER is a professor of law at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information (Stanford University Press, 2017) and Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, 2nd edition (University of Minnesota Press, 2008).
KATHERINE FINK is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Communications, and Visual Arts at Pace University. She is also an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, a former fellow of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School, and a former radio journalist.
JAMES T. HAMILTON is the Hearst Professor of Communication and director of the journalism program at Stanford. His books, Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism (Harvard, 2016) and All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (Princeton, 2006), examine the market for accountability journalism. As cofounder of the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab, he studies story discovery methods.
NADIA HILLIARD is a junior research fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, and a postdoctoral research associate at City, University of London. She is the author of The Accountability State: US Federal Inspectors General and the Pursuit of Democratic Integrity (University Press of Kansas, 2017).
SETH F. KREIMER is the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has studied, written, and taught in the fields of constitutional law, privacy, and transparency for three and a half decades. He has regularly consulted with the ACLU and other organizations on constitutional litigation.
MARGARET B. KWOKA is an associate professor of law at the University of Denver. Her research focuses on government secrecy and the Freedom of Information Act. She has litigated numerous FOIA cases, has testified about FOIA before Congress, and sits on the FOIA Advisory Committee. Her recent research on FOIA requesters appears in the Yale Law Journal and Duke Law Journal.
SAM LEBOVIC is an assistant professor of history at George Mason University and the author of Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America (Harvard, 2016).
ADAM A. MARSHALL is the Knight Foundation Litigation Attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where his work focuses on federal and state public records litigation. Adam also provides training, advocacy, and information on a wide array of open government issues.
TOBY MENDEL is the executive director of the Centre for Law and Democracy, a Canadian-based international human rights NGO that provides legal and capacity building expertise, including on the rights to information and freedom of expression. He has published widely on these rights and collaborated extensively with IGOs, governments, and NGOs in countries around the world to promote them.
GREGORY MICHENER is an assistant professor of government at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EBAPE), Rio de Janeiro. Founder of FGV’s Public Transparency Program and the Open Society Foundation–supported Transparency Evaluation Network, Michener studies the conceptualization, measurement, evaluation, and politics (especially in Latin America) of transparency and freedom of information policies.
BETH SIMONE NOVECK is the Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor at New York University, where she directs the Governance Lab. She served in the White House as first U.S. deputy chief technology officer and director of the Open Government Initiative. Her most recent book is Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing (Harvard, 2015). She tweets @bethnoveck.
DAVID E. POZEN is a professor of law at Columbia Law School. He teaches and writes about constitutional law, nonprofit law, and information law, among other topics. During the 2017–2018 academic year, Pozen served as the Knight First Amendment Institute’s inaugural visiting scholar.
IRMA ERÉNDIRA SANDOVAL-BALLESTEROS is a professor at the Institute for Social Research and director of the Laboratory for Documentation and Analysis of Corruption and Transparency at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She recently served as deputy to the Mexico City Constitutional Convention and was previously a fellow at Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and a visiting professor at Sciences Po.
FREDERICK SCHAUER is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and was previously, for nineteen years, the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University. Among his six books are Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (Cambridge, 1982), Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Harvard, 2003), Thinking Like a Lawyer (Harvard, 2009), and The Force of Law (Harvard, 2015).
MICHAEL SCHUDSON is a professor of journalism at Columbia Journalism School and a sociologist and historian of the news media and American political culture. He is the author of eight books as well as coauthor or coeditor of several more, touching on journalism, the media and democracy, cultural memory, and, in 2015, The Rise of the Right to Know (Harvard).
CASS R. SUNSTEIN is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. He is the author of many books, including Impeachment (Harvard, 2017) and The Ethics of Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He served as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs during the first term of the Obama administration.
KATIE TOWNSEND is the litigation director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She oversees the litigation work of Reporters Committee attorneys and represents the Reporters Committee, news organizations, and individual journalists in court access, freedom of information, and other First Amendment and press freedom matters in state and federal courts throughout the United States.
KYU HO YOUM is the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. He has published extensively about global free speech issues, and his research has been cited by U.S. and foreign courts, including the UK Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia. Youm is currently writing a book on international and comparative media law.