Theo is a Senior Program Officer at the MacArthur Foundation with a portfolio encompassing domestic and international policy, technology and innovation, and broad geopolitical trends. Before coming to MacArthur, he worked on the International Peace and Security Program at Carnegie Corporation. He has also worked as a consultant and speechwriter at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Theo received an MA in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a BA in history from UC Berkeley.
Justin Anderson became interested in nuclear issues after living in South Asia for three years as a child and because his dad wrote a book on nuclear power. After graduating from Occidental College, he had the good fortune to receive a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellowship, where he worked for what was then called the Nonproliferation Program. The program introduced Justin to Washington, the nuclear policy field, and his wife (“I hit the lottery!”). After two years working at SAIC on arms control implementation and compliance, he won a Marshall Scholarship, leading to an MA and PhD in war studies at King’s College London. After he returned stateside, Justin served as the first editor of the Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual and worked on arms control issues for the Air Force before becoming a fellow at National Defense University’s Center for the Study of WMD. A former N Square Innovators Network fellow, he’s a proud dad of two boys and lives in Alexandria, VA.
Daron is cofounder of ART NOT WAR, an award-winning cultural impact agency specializing in social justice movement building and digital strategy. ART NOT WAR has worked on dozens of campaigns for organizations like the ACLU, MoveOn, Color of Change, SEIU, and NARAL. Daron is also a musician and composer for film and television, most recently scoring Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Emmy-nominated historical documentary series, Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Daron has written on pop culture for The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Vogue, Bloomberg Businessweek, I.D., Entertainment Weekly, and Vibe. Before entering the world of progressive politics and professional music, he was founding editor at Word.com, one of the earliest and most influential online magazines. In 2000, Daron co-edited Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, a book of first-person portraits, excerpted in The New Yorker. He was a 2019 N Square Innovators Network fellow.
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