Anne Bagamery is a journalist based in Paris. She grew up in the Detroit suburbs and was the first female editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth. A former senior editor of the late, lamented International Herald Tribune in Paris, her work has appeared in Forbes, Institutional Investor, Savvy, Worth, The International New York Times, Vogue.com, The American Lawyer, and Persuasion. She currently is the European correspondent for Law.com International.

Emily Abernathy-Jones currently serves as speechwriter and executive communications manager for the Global Business Group at Meta. Prior to joining Meta, Abernathy-Jones served on Michael Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign. Before that, she spent five years at the Clinton Foundation managing speechwriting and correspondence for President Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea. Outside of work, she is the mother of two daughters (including a member of the Class of ’25), religiously clears time on her calendar to row, and is a member of the board of directors of Mission Rowing in Santa Barbara, California.

Lis Smith is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Any Given Tuesday.”

She is a veteran of twenty political campaigns. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state, and national levels. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. As one of Buttigieg’s first staffers, she oversaw the campaign’s communications operation, messaging, and debate prep. Politico described her as “the hard-charging New York operative [who] helped turn an obscure Indiana mayor into a national name.”

Prior to working on Buttigieg’s campaign, she’d worked on campaigns for everyone from former President Barack Obama to Senate Claire McCaskill and Governors Andrew Cuomo, Terry McAuliffe, Ted Strickland, Jon Corzine, and Martin O’Malley. She’s helped elect people at nearly every level of politics- state legislators, district attorneys, mayors, members of Congress, and presidents. She’s served as an on-air TV commentator and has had opinion pieces published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Vanity Fair.

Debbi Wilgoren is the justice and immigration editor at The Washington Post, overseeing a team that covers the Department of Justice, the Supreme Court, policing, immigration, and the judiciary. She lives in Washington D.C. and has worked at The Washington Post as a reporter and editor for more than 30 years. Wilgoren’s career has spanned journalism’s transformation from print to digital, and from an era when newspapers and network television were the primary news sources for most Americans to one where people can get information almost anywhere—but must search diligently to find information that is accurate and complete. Her formative journalism years were spent at The Dartmouth, where she was a reporter and editor.

Geeta Anand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who serves as dean and professor at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her stories on corporate corruption won the Wall Street Journal a Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Her nonfiction book, The Cure, about a dad’s fight to save his kids by starting a biotech company to make a medicine for their untreatable illness, was made into the Harrison Ford movie Extraordinary Measures in 2010. A journalist for 27 years, Anand’s career began at the Cape Cod News, then the Rutland Herald in Vermont, before she served as City Hall bureau chief for the Boston Globe. She then spent 17 years as a reporter and senior writer for the Wall Street Journal. She also served as a foreign correspondent in India for the Journal as well as The New York Times.