JANICE ROGERS BROWN served on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 2005 until she retired in 2017. From 1996 to 2005, she was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Previously, she served as the Legal Affairs Secretary to Governor Pete Wilson.

LINDSAY CRAIG is the president of National Review Institute, the non-profit William F. Buckley Jr. founded in 1991 to complement the efforts of National Review magazine and promote the ideals of a free society he championed. Under Lindsay’s leadership, NRI has established sound fiscal footing, even as NRI has become the parent company for NR, Inc., significantly expanded and enhanced its existing programs while establishing new ones, and broadened its partnerships with policy organizations and policy makers across the country. She remains active in the broader conservative movement, organizing events, serving on advisory boards, and speaking at conferences. Lindsay serves on the Board of Trustees for The Fund for American Studies and on the Board of Directors for Young Voices.

RICH LOWRY is the editor in chief of National Review. He writes for Politico, and often appears on such public-affairs programs as Meet the Press. He is a regular panelist on the KCRW program Left, Right & Center. He is the author of Lincoln Unbound, The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free, and Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years—a New York Times bestseller. Lowry began his career as a research assistant for Charles Krauthammer. In 1997 he was selected by William F. Buckley to lead National Review.

RAMESH PONNURU is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City and graduated from Princeton University. He has previously been a columnist for Time and Bloomberg Opinion and a contributor to CBS News and CNN.

WILL SWAIM is president of the California Policy Center. A journalist for nearly three decades, he began by covering international business in 1990. In 1995, the Village Voice and LA Weekly hired him to launch OC Weekly—the first and still only alternative weekly in Orange County. He was more recently editor of Watchdog.org, a national network of state-based investigative reporters, and vice president of journalism at Watchdog’s nonprofit parent, the Washington, D.C.-based Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity. Will graduated summa cum laude in journalism and with honors in theology from the University of Southern California. He earned an MA in history from UC Irvine where he was a California Regents Fellow. A seventh-generation Californian, Swaim has written extensively about California business, media, politics and religion; is the winner of several print journalism awards and a Southern California Broadcasters Golden Mike award for public affairs commentary. With CPC board member David Bahnsen, he hosts National Review’s weekly Radio Free California podcast.

JOHN YOO is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Professor Yoo has served in all three branches of government and has published more than 100 articles in academic journals on subjects including national security, constitutional law, international law, and the Supreme Court.