Theodore R. Johnson, Senior Fellow, Director of the Fellows Program, Brennan Center for Justice, former National Fellow at New America, retired Commander in the United States Navy, author of forthcoming "When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America"  

Trevor Aaronson is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America and an investigative journalist for The Intercept, executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and author of "The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism".

Peter Bergen is the author of six books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers and four of which were named among the non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post. Bergen is a Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War, Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows at New America and a CNN national security analyst.