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; 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.