John Kenney is a New York Times bestselling author best known for his witty poetry collections Love Poems for Married People, Love Poems for People with Children, and Love Poems for Anxious People.

Patty Heyda is a professor of urban design and architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is also a faculty scholar with the Center for Race, Ethnicity and Equity, the Center for the Environment, and the American Culture Studies Program.

Carol Graham is Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings, College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Gallup Senior Scientist. She served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on well-being metrics in 2012-13, received Pioneer Awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017 and 2021, and a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar award from the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies (2018), and is currently a member of a UN Commission developing progress indicators to complement GDP.

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on international security issues in Asia—particularly the Korean Peninsula—as well as global demographics and economic development.

Katie Benner is an investigative reporter for The New York Times, where she has covered the Department of Justice and Silicon Valley.

Mara Baumgarten Force is the Director of the Schwartz Family Center for Experiential Business Learning and the Seymour S. Goodman Professor of Business Administration at the AB Freeman School of Tulane University.

Dr. Gordon “Nick” Mueller is President and CEO Emeritus of The National World War II Museum. Dr.