ASHER D. HILDEBRAND

Hildebrand is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Hildebrand's academic interests include American politics, legislative institutions, civic participation and advocacy, democracy reform and U.S. foreign policy. Asher served for nearly 15 years in Congress and on political campaigns - holding senior leadership roles as Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative David Price (D-NC-04) and as Director of Policy and Research for President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign in North Carolina.

AZIZ Z. HUQ

Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Huq is a scholar of US and comparative constitutional law. Aziz works on topics ranging from democratic backsliding to regulating AI. He worked as counsel and then director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Project, litigating cases in both the US Courts of Appeals and the US Supreme Court. He was a law clerk for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and has also written for The New York Times and The Washington Post.