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Rohan Pavuluri is the CEO and Co-founder of Upsolve, a web site that helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress.Pavuluri is a member of the Legal Services Corporation’s Emerging Leaders Council, a Board Director at the National Access to Justice Center housed at Fordham Law School, and a committee member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Making Justice Accessible project.Pavuluri has been recognized as Forbes 30 under 30 in the Law & Policy Category and a TED Fellow, and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. In 2019, Pavuluri and Upsolve were awarded the Robin Hood Foundation Heroes Award for "extraordinary contributions in the fight against poverty."Pavuluri received his A.B in Statistics from Harvard University.

Victoria Pratt is a judge and global criminal justice advocate. She has gained national and international acclaim for her commitment to reforming the criminal justice system.

Trevor Aaronson is a contributing writer at The Intercept and a fellow at New America.He is the host and creator of the documentary podcasts "American ISIS" and "Chameleon: High Rollers."Aaronson's first book, "The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism," was published in 2013.

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld is a researcher and consultant on troubled democracies facing problems such as polarized populations, violence, corruption, and poor governance in the United States and internationally. Currently, she is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program.Prior to joining Carnegie, Kleinfeld co-founded and directed the Truman National Security Project.Kleinfeld's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic to the Journal of Democracy and the Annual Review of Political Science. Her first book, "Let There Be Light: Electrifying the Developing World with Markets and Distributed Energy," co-authored with Drew Sloan, was published in 2011. Her second book, "Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform," was published in 2012. Her third book, "A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security," was published in 2018. Her TED talk on improving violent democracies has been translated into 17 languages and viewed over a million times.Kleinfeld received her B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, and her M. Phil and D. Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.