The presidency transformed? Trump 47 at 100 days

Sidney M. Milkis is the Miller Center’s White Burkett Miller Professor of Governance and Foreign Affairs and a UVA professor of politics. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, social movements, and American political development. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate students, he regularly gives public lectures on American politics and participates in programs for international scholars and high school teachers that probe the deep historical roots of contemporary developments in the United States. His many books include the upcoming Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism and What Happened to the Vital Center?: Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America. He holds a BA from Muhlenberg College and a PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Saikrishna Prakash, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Paul G. Mahoney Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. His scholarship focuses on separation of powers, particularly executive powers. He teaches constitutional law, foreign relations law, and presidential powers. Prakash clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers (2020) and Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive (2015).

Marc Short is a partner at Advance Strategies, a contributor for CNBC, and a fellow at Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service. He served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence and as assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs at the White House for President Donald J. Trump. Short was previously president of Freedom Partners and senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Early in his career, he was the executive director of the Reagan Ranch from 1998–2001 and served as the executive director of Freedom Alliance from 1995–1998. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and received his MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Louisa Terrell provides strategic counsel to nonprofits and businesses. She served as assistant to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs from 2021 to 2023. During her long government career, she also served as advisor to Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler, chief of staff to Senator Cory Booker, special assistant to President Barack Obama in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, and deputy chief of staff and Judiciary Committee counsel to then-Senator Joe Biden. Terrell advised the Harris-Waltz campaign and held senior leadership roles in the Biden-Harris and Obama-Biden transition teams. In the private and philanthropic sectors, she also has served as deputy general counsel and head of public affairs for McKinsey & Company and executive director of the Biden Foundation. Terrell earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University and her law degree from Boston College Law School.

William J. Antholis has served as director and CEO of UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs since January 2015. In that time, the Miller Center has strengthened its position as the leading nonpartisan research institution on the American presidency and worked with scholars across the University of Virginia to deliver vital research to policymakers and the public. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014, working directly with Brookings's president and vice presidents. Antholis is the author of Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global (2013) and co-author (with Strobe Talbott) of Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (2010). He has published articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade.