CHARLES PETERS, President.  Founding editor, The Washington Monthly; former Peace Corps official; member of the West Virginia legislature; author of How Washington Really Works and numerous other books on improving government performance and public understanding of government.

MATTHEW COOPER, Washington editor, Conde Nast Portfolio magazine and Editor at Large at TPM Media; former deputy Washington bureau chief, Time; former national correspondent, Newsweek.

JAMES FALLOWS, National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. Former editor of US News & World Report; speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter; winner, National Magazine Award; winner, American Book Award for nonfiction. Author of Blind Into Baghdad and numerous other books.

JAMES GIBNEY , Deputy Managing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly; former Managing Editor, Foreign Policy as well as the New Republic and the Wilson Quarterly; Foreign Service Officer; speechwriter to President Clinton and special assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

PHIL KEISLING, Senior Vice President, CorSource Technology Group; former Secretary of State of Oregon and member, Oregon House of Representatives; former journalist and editor at The Washington Monthly.

MATT MILLER Columnist, Fortune magazine; Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co.; senior fellow, Center for American Progress; former Office of Management and Budget official; author of The Two Percent Solution; host of Left, Right & Center nationally-distributed radio program.

KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND, Former Lt. Governor of Maryland, former Justice Department official, author of Failing America’s Faithful

STEVE WALDMAN, Editor-in-Chief of Beliefnet.; former national editor, U.S. News and World Report, former national correspondent, Newsweek, former senior advisor to the CEO of the Corporation for National Service; author of The Bill.