"Wake" Creators & Guests

Political Scientist. Professor at American University. US State Department

Sandra Postel is the director & founder of the Global Water Policy Project, writer, researcher, and author of the book Replenish.

Vanda Felbab-Brown is a scholar of crime, organized crime, conflict, and nontraditional security threats. She currently is a senior fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.Felbab-Brown has been adjunct professor at both the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the University of Delaware. She was guest lecturer at the School of Advanced Military Studies in Fort Leavenworth. She has been a member of the Economics of International Drug Strategy expert group which is organized by the London School of Economist’s IDEAS.Felbab-Brown received her B.A. in government from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rick Steves is a travel writer, author, activist, and television personality. He has hosted Rick Steves' Europe, a travel series on public television and currently hosts a public radio travel show called Travel with Rick Steves.

Tom Z. Collina is director of policy at Ploughshares Fund, and co-author of the book The Button.