Board of Directors:

Beth Schulman, President, is the Senior Strategist for Institutional Advancement at Public Campaign’s Every Voice Center. For over three decades, she has helped develop and nurture progressive policy and media organizations.

Pia Gallegos is a trial lawyer representing plaintiffs in discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, whistleblower and overtime class action cases. She also represents activist organizations in not-for-profit and issue advocacy law.

Robert McChesney, Presente! is the author of six books on media and politics, Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, and cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press.

Deborah Toler, a former Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), has worked in Africa and has written extensively about international trade and development issues.

Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network.

  • CRISPR Comes with Serious Threats

    Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are slated to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Sweden on Thursday, Dec. 10 for developing the genome-editing technology CRISPR.

  • Flournoy: Hawk with Ties to Weapons Industry

  • Over 1,000 Educators Urge Biden to Pick Kumashiro for Education

    Anticipation and advocacy is building around Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Education and whether his policies will significantly depart from past decades.

  • Pressure Grows on Biden on Pentagon Pick

    “Ms. Flournoy’s consistent support for military interventions has contributed to devastating crises around the world, including in Yemen.”

  • Public Citizen Demands to Biden

    The group highlights a series of actions Biden could take, for example swiftly rescinding old executive orders and issuing new ones.

  • Should Michèle Flournoy Be Defense Secretary?

    Michèle Flournoy is facing opposition for her hawkish record and financial entanglements with the weapons industry.

  • Biden’s OMB Nominee: Firestorm of Criticism 

    Joe Biden has just nominated Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, as his director of the Office of Management and Budget. This has produced a range of criticism online.

  • Biden Foreign Policy: Corporate, Pro-War, Secretive

    “As an effort to undermine anti-war Democrats and promote Bush’s plans to invade Iraq, Flournoy claimed that the U.S. needed to ‘strike preemptively before a crisis erupts to destroy an adversary’s weapons stockpile’ before it “could erect defenses to protect those weapons, or simply disperse them.”

  • Blinken: AIPAC is Pleased

    According to Tony Blinken, Joe Biden’s senior advisor, ‘He [Biden] would not tie military assistance to Israel to any political decisions that it makes.’

  • Tony Blinken: Iraq War Propagandist?

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