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Archon Fung

Archon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has been on faculty at the Kennedy School since 1999. He directs the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

His research examines how citizen engagement, deliberative processes, and government openness can strengthen contemporary governance. He studies the efforts of citizens and officials to enhance public education, law enforcement, public services, and environmental conditions through innovative democratic practices.

He is a co-founder of Participedia, a wiki-project to open up the process of building knowledge around democratic innovation.

Sherrilyn Ifill听

Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and scholar. From 2013-2022, she served as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation鈥檚 premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice and equality. She recently served as a Ford Foundation Fellow and as the Klinsky Visiting Professor for Leadership & Progress at Howard Law School. Ifill is currently the Vernon Jordan Distinguished Professor in Civil Rights at Howard Law School, where later this year she will launch the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy. Ifill holds a fellowship at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.听听

Ifill鈥檚 tenure at the helm of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund was widely praised for elevating the profile, voice and influence of the organization, and for expanding and deepening its work across multiple areas of civil rights law. Ifill鈥檚 voice and analysis played a prominent role in shaping our national conversation about race and civil rights during a tumultuous period of racial reckoning in our country. Her strategic vision and counsel remains highly sought after by leaders in government, business, law, grassroots organizations, and academia.听听听

Ifill began her legal career as a Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, before joining the staff of the LDF as an Assistant Counsel, where she litigated voting rights cases in the South. In 1993 Ifill left LDF to join the faculty at University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore where she taught for twenty years before rejoining LDF in 2013 as its President & Director-Counsel.听听

Ifill is a scholar whose work has appeared in leading law journals, periodicals, and the nation鈥檚 leading newspapers. Her book On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century, was highly acclaimed, and is credited with laying the foundation for contemporary conversations about lynching and reconciliation. She is currently completing a new book about race and the current crisis in American democracy entitled,听Is This America?听which will be published by Penguin Press.听听

Ifill is a graduate of Vassar College and earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law. She is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and many of the most prestigious medals in the legal profession including the Radcliffe Medal, the Brandeis Medal, the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association, and The Gold Medal from the New York State Bar Association. Ifill was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and was named by听TIME听Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2021. She serves on the boards of the Mellon Foundation, New York University School of Law and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Isabelle Sch盲fer

Dr. Isabelle Sch盲fer is a research fellow in DGAP鈥檚 Center for Migration, where she conducts research on the foreign and development policy effects of migration cooperation.听听

Before joining DGAP, Sch盲fer was a research associate at Germany鈥檚 Expert Council on Integration and Migration. She contributed to its Annual Report 2024, mainly on asylum and return policy. She was also a research associate for the University of Exeter, where she worked on a research project on refugees in universities in the UK. Previously, she had worked in communications at the World Bank in Latin America for several years and lived in Mexico City.听听

Sch盲fer completed her PhD in social and policy sciences at the University of Bath in England on the topic of refugee integration and the role of universities. Prior to this, she completed her master鈥檚 degree in comparative and international education at the University of Oxford. Sch盲fer also holds a master鈥檚 degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City and from Sciences Po Paris.听

Loyle Campbell

Loyle Campbell is a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations Center for Climate and Foreign Policy. His work focuses on the geopolitics of the energy transition, energy security and industrial transformation. Loyle has completed a foreign policy fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars and an energy security fellowship at Securing American Future Energy. He has also served as a Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow on the United States House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. Before working in policy, Loyle worked for 5 years in the Canadian oil field. Loyle obtained his master鈥檚 in international energy from the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs and a BSc in political science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.