Christine Chen is the executive director and co-founder of APIAVote. She was a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and serves on the Kennedy Center Community Advisory Board and the Center for Asian American Media. She is a member of the Election Assistance and Policy (EAP) Standing Committee at the American Political Science Association.
Henry Farrell is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author or co-author of the books, The Political Economy of Trust (Cambridge, 2009), Of Privacy and Power (Princeton, 2019), and Underground Empire (Henry Holt and Company, 2023).
Diana Fu is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a China fellow at the Wilson Center, and a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She is the author of Mobilizing Without the Masses (Cambridge, 2018). She is co-authoring a second book on how the Chinese state governs the global diaspora (Cambridge, forthcoming).
Mary Gallagher is the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a non-resident senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. Her most recent book is Authoritarian Legality in China (Cambridge, 2017). She is the author or editor of several other books, including Contagious Capitalism (Princeton, 2005), Chinese Justice (Cambridge 2011), From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization (Cornell, 2011), and Contemporary Chinese Politics (Cambridge, 2010).
Ashley Gorski is a senior staff attorney in the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. Her cases have included Shen v. Simpson, a challenge to a law that restricts many Chinese immigrants from buying homes in Florida. She has represented Asian American scientists seeking accountability for wrongful prosecution by the U.S. government, including in Chen v. United States, which resulted in one of the largest settlements ever paid by the Commerce Department.
Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a founding member and president of the Asian American Scholar Forum, an NGO dedicated to open science and protecting the rights and well-being of Asian American scholars. He is a member of a task force at the Asia Society on U.S.-China policy and a member of the Brookings-CSIS advisory council on advancing U.S.-China collaboration. His 11 books include The Rise and Fall of the EAST (Yale, 2023), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year.
Ho-fung Hung is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Protest with Chinese Characteristics (Columbia, 2011), The China Boom (Columbia, 2015), City on the Edge (Cambridge, 2022), Clash of Empires (Cambridge, 2022), and The China Question (Cambridge, forthcoming).
Kyle A. Jaros is an associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is a visiting senior fellow for U.S.-China subnational relations at the Truman Center for National Policy and a fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program. His first book is China’s Urban Champions (Princeton, 2019). His second, with Sara Newland, will examine subnational U.S.-China relations.
Alastair Iain Johnston is the Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He is the author of the books Cultural Realism (Princeton, 1995) and Social States (Princeton, 2008) and is co-editor of Engaging China (Routledge, 1999), New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford, 2006), Crafting Cooperation (Cambridge, 2007), Measuring Identity (Cambridge, 2009), and Perception and Misperception in American and Chinese Views of the Other (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2015).
D.G. Kim is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University working on U.S.-China relations, American grand strategy, and Asian American politics with Alastair Iain Johnston. Prior to entering academia, he served as an intelligence officer in the Republic of Korea Air Force.
Gisela P. Kusakawa is the executive director of the Asian American Scholar Forum. She was the founding director and supervising attorney for the Anti-Profiling, Civil Rights & National Security Program at Asian Americans Advancing Justice. She spearheaded the effort to end the China Initiative. Kusakawa has served on the boards of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Education Fund, the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership, and the National Filipino American Lawyers Association.
Desirée LeClercq is an assistant professor of international law and faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law. She served as a director of labor affairs in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 2016 to 2020, including specializing in U.S.-China labor relations. LeClercq worked for nearly a decade as a legal officer at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and served as staff counsel for the chairman of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board.
Jonas Nahm is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He served as a senior economist for industrial strategy on the Council of Economic Advisers at the White House between 2023 and 2024. His book Collaborative Advantage (Oxford, 2021) examines the development of the wind and solar industries.
Sara A. Newland is an associate professor of government at Smith College and a visiting senior fellow for U.S.-China subnational relations at the Truman Center for National Policy. Newland is a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a member of the U.S.-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group. With Kyle Jaros, she is writing a book on U.S. city- and state-level engagement with China.
Margaret M. Pearson is the Dr. Horace E. and Wilma V. Harrison Distinguished Professor, and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the Department of Government and Politics at University of Maryland, College Park. She is a non-resident senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. Pearson is a co-author or author of many books, including The State and Capitalism in China (Cambridge, 2023), China’s Strategic Multilateralism (Cambridge, 2019), China’s New Business Elite (California, 1997), and Joint Ventures in the People’s Republic of China (Princeton, 1991).
Samm Sacks is a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a cyber policy fellow at New America. She is writing a book (Chicago, forthcoming) on the geopolitics of data privacy and cross-border data flows. Sacks launched the industrial cyber business for Siemens in Asia and worked as an analyst and Chinese linguist with the U.S. government. She also led China technology analysis for the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group.
Paul Triolo is a partner for China and technology policy at DGA–Albright Stonebridge Group, where he advises clients in technology, financial services, and other sectors on political and regulatory matters around the world. Triolo spent more than 25 years in senior positions in the U.S. government, analyzing China’s rise as a technology power and advising senior policymakers on technology-related issues. He serves as a senior advisor to the Paulson Institute.
Patrick Toomey is the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, where he works on privacy and surveillance, racial and ethnic discrimination, and the use of novel technologies like artificial intelligence. Toomey has represented Asian American scientists wrongly prosecuted by the U.S. government, has challenged the new wave of “alien land laws,” and has supported efforts to strike down government bans on apps like WeChat and TikTok.
Graham Webster leads the DigiChina Project at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. As a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School, he was responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s U.S.-China Track 2 dialogues and led programming on cyberspace and high-tech issues. He wrote for CNET News on technology and society from Beijing, worked at the Center for American Progress, and taught East Asian politics at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.
Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute Center for China Analysis. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship. Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots (Oxford, 2014). She was previously the Michael J. Zak Professor at Cornell University and an assistant professor at Yale University. She founded the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University.
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