Christopher Pearson is a member of the Vermont House of Representatives where he chairs the Progressive Party caucus - the country's largest third-party caucus. He got started in politics working for Bernie Sanders re-election campaign to Congress in 1998. Pearson was the director of the Progressive Party from 2000 to 2005. He is now one of the lead organizers with National Popular Vote. He lives in Burlington with his partner Lacey Richards.

Rob Richie has directed FairVote since 1992. He is co-author of Every Vote Equal about establishing a national popular vote for president and Whose Votes Count making the case for proportional voting and instant runoff voting. His writings have appeared in many newspapers and seven additional books. He has been a guest on NPR, C-SPAN, NBC News, CNN, FOX, Bloomberg News and MSNBC and has addressed conventions of Free Press, the American Political Science Association, National Association of Counties, National Association of Secretaries of State and National Conference of State Legislatures. He and his wife Cynthia Terrell have three children.

Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor at The New Yorker, where he blogs and contributes to the opening Comment column in “The Talk of the Town.” He has been an officer in the Navy, editor of The New Republic, and President Jimmy Carter’s chief speech writer. He is the author of “Politics: Observations & Arguments” (Penguin), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post and L.A. Times Best Book of the Year. He has won four National Magazine Awards, most recently in 2006 for columns and commentary.