Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War history at Dickinson, director of the House Divided Project, author of Boss Lincoln and Lincoln’s Sanctuary, 2014 New America National Fellow and Future of War Fellow, 2014-2017.

Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine, former Marshall Scholar at King’s College London, writing a book about the history of American intelligence in China, 2025 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist working on The Route, a book that follows the world’s longest human migration to the United States, scholar at the Wilson Center, 2025 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America.

Journalist, former soldier with multiple tours in Iraq, lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General in Texas, author of The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, 2025 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America.

Labor organizer, the founder and director of Resilience Force, and the author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America, working on Hurricane Hustlers, a book on the soon-to-be trillion-dollar climate disaster recovery economy, 2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America.

A nationally recognized immigrant justice leader, strategist, and democracy advocate, writing a book entitled Becoming America: A Personal History of a Nation’s Immigration Wars, 2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America.

Award-winning DC-based reporter for Agence France-Presse writing a book about Saudi Arabia in the age of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America.

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 America. 

Former US Army officer most recently at Army Futures Command, multiple combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, supporting the Small Wars Journal.

Co-Founder and Principal, Event Horizon Strategies, former executive editor of the New Republic and Foreign Policy, former deputy staff director of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, PhD, Harvard Business School.