Lise Clavel has worked in politics, government and advocacy for the past fifteen years. Most recently, she served in the Biden White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Migration, and before that as Chief of Staff at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In those roles, Lise led policy development in response to Southwest border challenges and other national security issues related to trade and travel.

From 2015 to 2019, Clavel worked on education policy and advocacy in the United States as a senior program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the second term of the Obama Administration, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Public Engagement for the Vice President. Clavel has also managed federal campaigns in Virginia and served in leadership roles in both the Biden and Obama presidential campaigns. She got her start in politics working on Tom Perriello's campaign in Virginia's 5th district, which encompasses Charlottesville. She also served as Perriello's chief of staff on Capitol Hill following his 2008 victory. Clavel graduated from Yale University with a degree in English.

Amanda Frost writes and teaches in the fields of immigration and citizenship law, federal courts and jurisdiction, and judicial ethics. Her scholarship has been cited by over a dozen federal and state courts, and she has been invited to testify on the topics of her articles before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Her non-academic writing has been published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, USA Today and The American Prospect, and she authors the “Academic Round-up” column for SCOTUSblog. In 2019 she was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to complete her book, You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (2021), which was named as a “New & Noteworthy” book by The New York Times Book Review and was shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize.

Bio coming soon.

Website: https://www.pli.edu/faculty/angela-kelley-i2165580

David Leblang is the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Endowed Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia as well as a professor of public policy at the University's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is also the Randolph P. Compton Professor of Public Affairs at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and currently serves as interim associate dean for Undergraduate Experience and Strategic Initiatives in the College of Arts and Sciences. A student of international political economy, Leblang has published broadly on topics including political development, global financial markets, international economic crises, and global migration. His most recent book, The Ties that Bind: The Political Economy of Global Immigration (with Benjamin Helms), was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.