
Melody Barnes
Executive Director, Karsh Institute of Democracy W.L. Lyons Brown Family Director for Policy and Public Engagement J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance, Miller Center

Stefanie Georgakis Abbott
Director of Programming

Roberto Armengol
Multimedia Producer

Mary Beth Aungier
Events and Venue Planner

Frances Capaccio
Executive Assistant

Laurent Dubois
Director for Academic Affairs, Karsh Institute of Democracy John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy, UVA
Vivian Feggans
Event Planner

Jessica Kimpell Johnson
Director of Research Manager, Nau Lab on the History and Principles of Democracy

Jane Kulow
Lab Coordinator

Samyuktha Mahadevan
Project Manager, One Small Step

Claire Payton
Manager, Memory Project
Randy Richards
Senior Finance Generalist
Natalie Russell
Associate Director of Content and Marketing

Danni Schreffler
Assistant Director of Finance & Operations
Will Thompson
Program Manager

Erin Tör
Director of Communications

Nicole Woods
Managing Director

Christa D. Acampora
Dean, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, UVA Buckner W. Clay Professor of Philosophy, UVA

William J. Antholis
Director and CEO, UVA Miller Center (CLAS ‘86)

Deborah Archer
President, ACLU Professor of Clinical Law, NYU Law School Co-faculty director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law

Melody Barnes
Executive Director, Karsh Institute of Democracy W.L. Lyons Brown Family Director for Policy and Public Engagement J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance, Miller Center

Ian Baucom
Executive Vice President and Provost, UVA
Megan Beyer
Director, Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State

John Bridgeland
Founder and CEO, Civic Executive Chairman, Office of American Possibilities (Law ‘87)

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jim Donovan
Vice Chairman, Global Client Coverage, Goldman Sachs Adjunct Professor, UVA School of Law

Laurent Dubois
Director for Academic Affairs, Karsh Institute of Democracy John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy, UVA

Heather K. Evans
John Morton Beaty Endowed Chair in Political Science, UVA College at Wise

Risa Goluboff (Chair)
Dean, UVA School of Law Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, UVA School of Law Professor of History, UVA
Desiree Ho
Student Representative, UVA (Batten ’25)
Lawrence D. Howell
Co-founder, EFG International (CLAS ’75, Law ’79)

John C. Jeffries, Jr.
David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, UVA School of Law Counselor to President James Ryan, UVA (Law ’73)

Martha L. Karsh
Co-founder, Karsh Family Foundation (CLAS ’78, Law ‘81)

The Honorable Anthony Kennedy
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (retired)

Yuval Levin
Senior Fellow, Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, American Enterprise Institute Editor-in-Chief, National Affairs

Sandra Wicks Lewis
Former Relationship Manager, Professional and Executive Banking Division, Bank of America Co-Founder, Lewis Family Fund (CLAS ’72)

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA
James B. Murray, Jr.
Managing General Partner, Court Square Ventures Founder, Presidential Precinct Member, UVA Board of Visitors (CLAS ‘68)

Meghan Murray
Interim Executive Director, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service

John L. Nau III
President and CEO, Silver Eagle Distributors, LP Founder and President, The Nau Foundation (CLAS ’68)

Alexis K. Ohanian
Founder, Seven Seven Six Co-founder and Former Executive Chair, Reddit (Com ‘05)

John M. Owen IV
Ambassador Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics, UVA Department of Politics Faculty Senior Fellow, UVA Miller Center Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, UVA

Larry J. Sabato
Founder and Director, UVA Center for Politics University Professor of Politics, UVA Department of Politics (CLAS ’74)

Reverend Gabriel A. Salguero
Pastor, The Gathering Place President and Founder, National Latino Evangelical Coalition

Ian H. Solomon
Dean, UVA Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy

Suzanne Spaulding
Director, Defending Democratic Institutions Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CLAS ‘78, Law ‘81)

Margaret Spellings
President and CEO, Bipartisan Policy Center U.S. Secretary of Education, Bush Administration (2005-2009)

Jayme Swain
President and CEO, Virginia Public Media and the Virginia Foundation for Public Media (CLAS ‘97)

Craig Volden
Professor of Public Policy and Politics, UVA Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy Co-director, UVA Center for Effective Lawmaking