Two-term former Ohio Governor John R. Kasich is a newly named CNN political commentator who believes in the power of individuals to affect change at the local level, and that we need to reach beyond politics and the issues that divide us to achieve solutions through unity and resilience.

As a co-founder of the faith-based group Boston Ten Point Coalition, the Rev. Jeffrey Brown was one of the key architects behind the “Boston Miracle,” during which the city experienced a 79% decline in violent crime among youth from 1990 to 1999. 

Anna Clark is a journalist in Detroit. She’s the author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus, the New York Public Library, Audible, Amazon, and others.

Risa Goluboff is the 12th, and the first female, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is a nationally renowned legal historian whose scholarship and teaching focuses on American constitutional and civil rights law...

Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and the author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life.