Ambassador (ret.) Barbara K. Bodine is a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. After initial tours in East Asia, her 33-year Foreign Service career was spent on the broader Arab Gulf region. In addition to several tours at the Department of State’s Bureau of Near East Affairs, she served as U.S. ambassador to Yemen from 1997 through 2001, in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and occupation, and in Iraq as Deputy Chief of Mission during the Iran-Iraq War. She received the Secretary of State’s Award for Valor for her work in occupied Kuwait in 1990, and returned to Iraq a second time in April 2003 as part of the US reconstruction effort. Ambassador Bodine also served as Coordinator for Counterterrorism Operations and overall Acting Coordinator, and Director of East African/Horn of Africa Affairs, among other assignments. Since leaving the Foreign Service, she has been a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and MIT. For seven years, she directed the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative at Princeton University, a program focused on preparing a highly diverse cohort of exceptional students for careers throughout the federal government.

She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts.

Heather Howard is a Lecturer in Public Affairs at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she teaches courses on implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the social determinants of health, state and local health policy, and policies to address gun violence, and is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Health & Wellbeing. She is director of the State Health and Value Strategies program, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program that provides technical assistance to support state efforts to enhance the quality and value of health care by improving population health and reforming the delivery of health care services. She served as New Jersey’s Commissioner of Health and Senior Services from 2008- 2010, overseeing a cabinet-level agency with a budget of $3.5 billion and staff of 1,700, responsible for public health services, regulation of health care institutions, senior services, and health care policy and research. In 2017 and 2018, she co-chaired New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s health care transition committee and was later appointed by Governor Murphy to the Multistate Gun Violence Research Consortium and NJ State Health Benefits Value and Quality Task Force. She also has significant federal experience, having worked as Senator Jon Corzine'sChief of Staff, as Associate Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and Senior Policy Advisor for First Lady Hillary Clinton, as an Honors Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division Health Care Task Force, and for the U.S. Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY). She received her B.A. from Duke University and her J.D. from NYU School of Law.

Udi Ofer has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University since 2018. He is the Deputy National Political Director of the ACLU and Director of the ACLU’s Justice Division, which leads the organization’s advocacy on criminal justice reform, policing, drug law reform and ending the death penalty.

Ofer has nearly 20 years of experience as a civil rights lawyer and policy advocate, working on some of the most important civil rights and civil liberties issues facing the nation. In his current role, Ofer has overseen efforts to pass more than 200 criminal justice reform laws that address inequities in the criminal justice system. He has also overseen the launch of new and innovative electoral, legislative, public education and litigation strategies to transform the criminal legal system.

From 2013-2016, Ofer served as Executive Director of the ACLU of New Jersey, where he led the organization in achieving historic victories on a variety of civil rights issues, and from 2003-2013, he worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union, where he founded the Advocacy Department. There he challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices and spearheaded the successful effort to pass legislation banning racial profiling by the NYPD and creating an NYPD Inspector General’s office.

Ofer began his legal career in 2001 as a Skadden Fellow at My Sisters’ Place, a domestic violence organization. He was an adjunct professor at New York Law School from 2009-2012, and has published widely including in the Seton Hall Law Review, Columbia Law School Journal of Race and Law, New York Law School Law Review, and Fordham Law School Urban Law Journal. Ofer’s work and commentary have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Hill, and hundreds of news outlets. He has testified before numerous legislatures, including the United States Senate, and is frequently cited as an expert on constitutional rights matters.

Ofer is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Distinguished Graduate Award from Fordham Law School, a presidential new executive award from the Open Society Foundations, and a 2004 proclamation from the New York City Council for his outstanding service to the city and state. He is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Jeremy White is a Program Director at the Murdock Charitable Trust, near Portland, Oregon where he helps guide the grant making process and support for nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest and around the country. Previously he founded RestoreHope Consulting, which was established to address the empowerment needs of urban communities around the country, leveraging $10 million in funding and other resources for faith-based and other nonprofits across 15 states.

Part of his commitment to these communities led him to launch DiverseTech a national public awareness campaign dedicated towards addressing the lack of diversity within the technology industry. DiverseTech worked with leaders in the field to promote solutions to the pressing tech diversity problem.

He served as the Director for Outreach for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for three years, where he developed partnerships between corporations, nonprofits and Federal, State and Local government agencies around employment and economic empowerment.

A native of Detroit, Jeremy is a graduate of Princeton University where he majored in public policy, in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Previous published work has appeared in The Hill, Huffington Post and other publications.