Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, is a leading scholar of constitutional and Internet law. After teaching at the University of Chicago and founding Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia. Lessig founded the reform group Equal Citizens, helped launch Creative Commons, sits on AXA Research Fund’s Scientific Board, and belongs to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Calif. columnist/Democracy editor; Zócalo Public Square; Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy; prof of practice ASU School of Politics and Global Studies; author, People's Machine, The California Crackup

Sonja is an experienced and successful movement builder. In 2014, Sonja Trauss started organizing pro-housing renters in the Bay Area while working as a high school math teacher. She is a founder of the YIMBY movement in California. Sonja leads YIMBY Law, which is a project of Yes In My Back Yard.

democracy reformer and retired politician. From 1981 to 1991, he served on the City Council of Burlington, Vermont (with mayor Bernie Sanders). He then served a decade as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. After leaving elective office, he worked on ranked choice voting; since 2004, he has focused on sortition reform internationally. Some of his publications on sortition include “Democracy through Multi-Body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day” (Journal of Public Deliberation, 2013) and a chapter on sortition in Methods for Sustainability Research (2017).

Leroy Allan Martin is a dual British-American legal writer and former practicing attorney whose interdisciplinary background spans theology, education, and law. Born on the tiny British Caribbean Island of Montserrat, Martin now focuses on legal scholarship and writing.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Leonora is a nonprofit leader with extensive experience in movement-building and organizing. She currently serves as a Director of Public Access Democracy, a democratic lottery advocacy organization based in Los Angeles, and is also the Executive Director of Climate Save Villages, which fosters climate change resilient, sustainable communities worldwide. Previously, Leonora was the Executive Director of Abundant Housing LA, a pro-housing movement organization that grew from an all-volunteer group to a staffed organization of 10 under her leadership.