Citizen Secretaries of Health and Human Services.
Primary care doctor and Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College & Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Author of more than 150 scientific articles and 3 books. Co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program.
Citizen Secretary of Science & Environment.
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. A Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. Authored 200 articles and three books, including The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.
Citizen Secretary of State.
Director of New Models of Policy Change Initiative at New America Political Reform Program. Previously ran the National Security Network and served as special assistant and speechwriter to President Bill Clinton and speechwriter for Secretaries of State Albright and Christopher.
Citizen Secretary of Defense.
Vice-president for the National Security Program at The Third Way. Previously defense policy advisor to Sen. Edward Kennedy and staff director to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Citizen Senior Strategist.
Longtime journalist for Newsweek and a contributing correspondent to NBC News. Author of New York Times best-selling books: The Defining Moment: FDR’s First Hundred Days, as well as The Promise: President Obama, Year One. Currently writing a biography of Jimmy Carter.
Citizen Secretary of Technology.
Professor at Columbia Law School. Created term “Net Neutrality”. Author of “Network Neutrality Broadband Discrimination” (2003), Who Controls the Internet (2006), The Master Switch (2010), and The Attention Merchants (2016). Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
Citizen Secretary of Women’s Issues.
President of NARAL Pro Choice America. Previously with MoveOn.org. Contributor to The New York Times, CNN.com, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, and ELLE Magazine.
Citizen Secretary of Democracy.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University. Recipient of the 2014 W.E.B. du Bois Best Book Award for her book, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration and the Pursuit of the American Dream.
Citizen Historian.
Author of two best-sellers: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America and The Invisible Bridge: the Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Contributing writer at The Nation.
