Participants
Learn about our distinguished scholars and practitioners
William J. Antholis
Antholis is director and CEO of the Miller Center. He served as President Clinton’s director of international economic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council.
Olivia Beavers
Beavers is a reporter covering Congress in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. Her stories explore the personalities, policies, and politics unfolding on Capitol Hill. She previously reported for POLITICO and The Hill.
Sarah Binder
Binder is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of political science at George Washington University, specializing in Congress and legislative politics.
Robert Blair
Blair, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, is chief global policy officer at Applied Materials. During the first Trump administration, Blair held senior roles, including associate director for national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget.
Brandice Canes-Wrone
Canes-Wrone is a professor in the political science department and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. She is also the director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions.
Lee Drutman
Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-founder of Fix Our House, a campaign for proportional representation in America.
Melanie Egorin
Egorin, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is a professor of practice at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Under President Joe Biden, Egorin served as assistant secretary for legislation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mike Emanuel
Emanuel is chief Washington correspondent for FOX News Channel and coanchor of FOX News Live. He has provided live coverage of numerous critical national and international events.
SoRelle Gaynor
Gaynor, a Miller Center faculty fellow, is an assistant professor of public policy and politics at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She is a former APSA Public Service Fellow for the U.S. House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
Tom Graves
Graves served in the U.S. House of Representatives (R-GA) from 2010–2020, including service as vice chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. He is the president and CEO of Ervine Graves.
Maya Kornberg
Kornberg is a senior research fellow and manager in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program, where she leads work related to legislative reform, government capacity, and political violence.
Kevin Kosar
Kosar is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies the U.S. Congress, the administrative state, American politics, election reform, and the U.S. Postal Service. He edits UnderstandingCongress.org.
Frances Lee
Lee is a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, specializing in Congress and party politics. Her recent books include A Case for Congress (2026) and The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (2020).
Dan Meyer
Meyer, a Miller Center Governing Council member, served as chief of staff to former House Speakers Kevin McCarthy and Newt Gingrich, as well as assistant to the president for legislative affairs in the George W. Bush administration.
Sid Milkis
Milkis is the Miller Center’s White Burkett Miller Professor of Governance and Foreign Affairs and a professor of politics in UVA's Department of Politics. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, and social movements.
Spencer Overton
Overton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University, as well as the founder and faculty director of GW Law’s Multiracial Democracy Project.
Eloise Passachoff
Pasachoff is Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She studies administrative law, public administration, and budget and appropriations law.
Rachel Potter
Potter, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is an associate professor of politics in UVA's Department of Politics. She studies the hidden politics of procedure and process in American political institutions, with a focus on bureaucracy and regulation.
J.D. Rackey
Rackey is an associate director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Structural Democracy Project. He previously served on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
Molly Reynolds
Reynolds is the vice president and director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she studies Congress, with an emphasis on how congressional rules and procedure affect policymaking.
Mara Rudman
Rudman, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, served as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs in the Obama and Clinton administrations and as chief counsel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Eric Schickler
Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Phil Schiliro
Under President Barack Obama, Schiliro held senior roles, including director of legislative affairs. He was the Democratic staff director for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is the co-founder of Co-Equal.
Louisa Terrell
Terrell, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, served as assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs under President Biden. She was a senior advisor to the Harris-Walz campaign.
Nick Troiano
Troiano is the executive director of Unite America, a non-partisan organization that seeks to foster a more functional and representative government. When he ran for Congress in 2014, he drew national attention as the youngest candidate that cycle.
Craig Volden
Volden is a professor of public policy and politics at the University of Virginia, with appointments in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the Department of Politics. He is founder and co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking.
Phillip Wallach
Wallach is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies America’s separation of powers. He was previously a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a fellow with the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
Shalanda Young
Young, the Miller Center’s Randolph P. Compton Professor of World Politics, served as director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget during the Biden administration—the first Black woman to lead the agency.