Ryan S. Olson is a senior fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and research associate professor at the University of Virginia. He is the editor, with James Davison Hunter, of The Content of Their Character: Inquiries into the Varieties of Moral Formation.

James Arthur OBE is Director Emeritus of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, an interdisciplinary research centre located at the University of Birmingham in England. Arthur is the UK’s leading academic on character education and policy entrepreneurship in education. One of his most recent books is The Formation of Character in Education (Routledge, 2019).

Erika Bachiochi is a fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and director of The Wollstonecraft Project at the Abigail Adams Institute. A former Harvard Law School visiting scholar, Bachiochi recently published The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision with Notre Dame Press.

Tal Brewer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His most recent book, The Retrieval of Ethics, was published by Oxford University Press.

Abir Catovic left behind a career as a computer engineer to found an Islamic school. As a teacher for more than thirty years, she is a pioneer of Islamic education in the United States who has served in various capacities in school administration and curriculum development.

Geoffrey Claussen is Professor of Religious Studies, Lori and Eric Sklut Professor in Jewish Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University.

Matthew Crawford studied physics at UC Santa Barbara and then turned to political philosophy, earning a PhD from the University of Chicago. He has published articles on ancient Greek philosophy, neuroscience, and the philosophy of science. He is the author of Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road (HarperCollins, 2020); The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015); and Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (Penguin, 2009), a New York Times best seller that has been translated into seven languages.

Michael M. Crow has been President of Arizona State University (ASU) since 2002. Credited with creating the New America University model, Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar, and higher education leader. He is the co-author of Designing the New American University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

Kristján Kristjánsson is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. Prof. Kristjánsson has published many books and over 150 articles in international journals. He has served numerous fellowships and is the Editor of the Journal of Moral Education.

David M. Goodman is an Associate Dean of the Lynch School at Boston College and Associate Professor of Practice in the Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology department. He is the director of the Center of Psychological Humanities and Ethics and President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

Rabbi Mark Gottlieb is chief education officer of The Tikvah Fund in New York City and founding dean of the Tikvah Scholars Program. Previously Rabbi Gottlieb, who has a PhD from the University of Chicago, served as head of school at Yeshiva University High School for Boys in New York City and as principal of the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA.

Michael Wear is the Founder, President and CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonpartisan nonprofit to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. A veteran of the Obama administration, Michael just published The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life.

James Davison Hunter is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia. The founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Hunter is the author of the landmark Culture Wars, The Death of Character, and the forthcoming Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis.

Jonathan Teubner is Faculty at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Teubner received his PhD from Cambridge University in Theology and is the author of Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Eranda Jayawickreme is the Harold W. Tribble Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University and Senior Research Fellow in the Program for Leadership and Character. His research focuses on post-traumatic growth, moral personality, wisdom, and well-being.

Walter Kim is president of the National Association of Evangelicals. He previously served as a pastor at Boston’s historic Park Street Church and at churches in Vancouver, Canada and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as a campus chaplain at Yale University. Kim received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Rita Koganzon is an associate professor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina, where she teaches political theory and American politics. Her research focuses on the themes of education, childhood, authority, and the family in historical and contemporary political thought.

Felicia Wu Song (PhD, University of Virginia) is a cultural sociologist of media and digital technologies, currently serving as professor of sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara. Her publications include Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together and articles in such scholarly journals as Gender and Society and Information, Communication and Society.

Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University.

Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of National Affairs, he served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under George W. Bush and as executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

James Mumford is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. A former Henry Fellow at Yale, Mumford is working on a book for Simon and Schuster, Therapeutized.

Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She is the author of American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race and The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature.

Daniel R. Porterfield is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. Porterfield was previously the President of Franklin & Marshall College, a Senior Vice President and English professor at Georgetown University, and is the author of the book Mindset Matters: The Power of College to Activate Lifelong Growth.

James Rahn has been the president of the Kern Family Foundation since 2008, Jim is responsible for providing leadership to the foundation’s mission to build the future through values, education, and innovation. He is a social entrepreneur who has co-founded two education reform non-profits.

Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. His new book from Simon & Schuster is The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.

Andreas Schleicher is Director for Education and Skills at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. A German citizen, Schleicher was originally trained in physics, mathematics, and statistics.

Rachel L. Wahl is an assistant professor in the Social Foundations Program in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. A Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Wahl is the author of Just Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police (Stanford University Press, 2017).

Peter Becker is Head of School at The Taft School in Connecticut. Educated at the University of Virginia and Yale, Becker taught at The Lawrenceville School before being appointed Head of School at The Frederick Gunn School.

Jennifer Frey is the inaugural dean of the Honors College at The University of Tulsa and professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy & Religion. A PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, Frey has written First Things, Image, The Point, and the Wall Street Journal. She also hosts “Sacred and Profane Love” – a philosophy, theology, and literature podcast.

Ted Cross’s work centers on advancing Arizona State University’s ninth design aspiration - Practice Principled Innovation. He collaborates with university leaders to embed practices that draw on values, character, civic and intellectual assets to drive human flourishing at ASU and beyond.

Tim Elmore is the founder and CEO of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta‐based non‐profit. Elmore has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Psychology Today and is the author of over 35 books, including most recently A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage.

Pat MacMillan is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Triaxia Partners, a management consultancy firm based in Atlanta, GA. MacMillan served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Berlin Brigade, during which time he received the U.S. Army Commendation Medal, and is the author of Hiring Excellence and The Performance Factor.

Jacquie Bryant is the founding principal of the Intellectual Virtues Academy (IVA), a free, independent public charter middle school in Long Beach, Calif. Previously Bryant taught all levels of English Language for ten years at the comprehensive high school, San Pedro HS in LA Unified.