Suzy Hansen 

Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, 2020 ASU Future Security Fellow at…

Anuj Chopra

Award-winning DC-based reporter for Agence France-Presse writing a book that profiles the kingdom through nine different characters from different sections of Saudi society, 2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, 12-1…

Anand Gopal 

Professor of Practice, sociologist, journalist, finalist for 2015, 2022 and 2025 Pulitzer Prize and 2014 National Book Award This event will be in held in person. This event is co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of…

Grace M. Cho

Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, author of Tastes Like War: A Memoir, writing a book examining the Korean War through the lens of her family’s experience, 2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New…

Candace Rondeaux

Professor of Practice, Senior Director, Future Frontlines and Planetary Politics at New America, formerly of U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. This event will be in held…

Khameer Kidia 

Writer, anthropologist, Rhodes Scholar, and global health physician on the faculty at Brigham & Womenʼs Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 2022 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America in conversation with Mona…

Yi-Ling Liu

Award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, and The New Yorker, 2021 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America in conversation with Dan Xin Huang…

Brendan Nyhan

James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College, focusing on misperceptions about politics and health care, member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Andrew Carnegie…

Matthieu Aikins

Winner of 2025 and 2022 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on U.S. support of brutal militias in Afghanistan and for civilian casualties from US airstrikes, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and the author of…