Aaron Smith is a long-time youth engagement expert and advocate with over a decade of experience in the intersection between youth civic engagement and policy issues. Aaron co-founded and served as the original Executive Director of Young Invincibles, one of the largest and most impactful youth advocacy and policy non-profits in the country, with a focus on engaging 18 to 34 year olds. Aaron started YI in 2009 while still a student at Georgetown Law School (where he also helped to found and run the Obama organizing group on campus). Through his work at YI, Aaron led national campaigns to engage young adults across a range of civic engagement and policy issues. More recently, Aaron co-founded Savi, a social impact startup that helps people better understand and navigate their student loan debt. Aaron has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.

Lisa Liddle has passionately worked with local, regional, and national organizations for gender, racial, social, education and environmental justice. An active member of Women Donors Network, she's currently managing Democratic Messaging Project's LED Mobile Billboard & Projection campaign. Lisa, a Stanford graduate, formerly servesd as Vice Chair of the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women. An Advisory Board Member of GENup, Emeritus Board Member/Director with March On/Future Coalition, Women's March San Jose leader, Green Foothills Board Member, Emerge alum, Lisa focuses her work to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), advance voting rights and engagement, pursue criminal justice reform, and protect our environment. Prior to her political and community work, Lisa was VP of Business Development at a tech startup and spent 17 years throughout Silicon Valley.

Jackson Katz, Ph.D., has long been a leading figure in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equity and prevent gender-based violence. He is co-founder of the multiracial, mixed-gender Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention initiatives in North America and beyond. MVP was the first system-wide prevention program in the college and professional sports culture and all branches of the US military. His books include the classic bestseller The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, as well as Man Enough: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity. He is the creator of many award-winning educational videos, including the Tough Guise series, about violence, media, and American manhood, as well as The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump. He is a contributing writer for Ms Magazine, where he writes about the politics of masculinities, right-wing populism, and violence. His TEDx talk, Violence Against Women Is a Men's Issue," has been translated into 27 languages and has more than 5.5 million views. He has lectured and trained in all fifty U.S. states, eight Canadian provinces, and every continent except Antarctica.

Britton Smith is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships for REFORM Alliance, an organization focused on changing criminal justice through transformative probation and parole legislation, led by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Robert Smith, Robert Kraft, Van Jones, and Meek Mill. Britton Smith is an experienced national campaign and political strategist specializing in helping organizations and candidates appeal to a more modern and reflective demographic. In 2015, Britton became the National Political Director for his fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., organizing their membership of over 200,000 on voter engagement projects, civic education efforts, and shaping their legislative advocacy agenda. Organizing nationwide, Britton has established a rapport with community leaders and lawmakers alike.

John Ray is the senior director of polling at YouGov Blue, and is a PhD candidate in the UCLA department of political science. He has worked on Democratic political campaigns across the country since 2010. He resides in Austin, Texas.