Columbia University Club of New York

Marc Fisher, a Senior Editor at The Washington Post, is co-author of Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, a New York Times bestselling biography of Donald Trump (Scribner, 2016). In three decades at The Post, Fisher has been the Enterprise Editor, leading a team of writers creating narrative journalism and experimenting with new forms of storytelling; the local columnist; Berlin Bureau Chief; and an assistant city editor. His magazine work has appeared in The New Yorker, Columbia Journalism Review, Moment, GQ and many other outlets.

Panelists

Dinesh Sharma is an author, consultant, and social scientist with a doctorate in psychology and human development from Harvard University. He is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, SUNY Binghamton, where he teaches in Harpur College, Psychology and the Department of Human Development. His current teaching work is focused on Human Rights, Globalization, Leadership and the United Nations. Sharma also teaches about global leadership and the UN at Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

Meg Jacobs, Associate Professor for Columbia University’s Department of History, is a Research Scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School teaching courses in public policy and history. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Virginia and was an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a fellow at the Harvard Business School, the Charles Warren Center, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. She is currently working on a book on the energy crisis of the 1970s, which looks at why American politicians failed to devise a long-term energy policy. She is the author of Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, which was published with Princeton University Press and won the Organization of American Historians’ 2006 prize for the best book on modern politics.  She has recently published Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989, Bedford/St. Martin’s (2010).

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation. She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine, and The Boston Globe. She is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama; Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover; and co-editor of Taking Back America—And Taking Down The Radical Right.

In 2014, vanden Heuvel received the Norman Mailer Center Award for Distinguished Magazine Publishing; the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal; the Center for Community Change’s Champion in Activism Award; and New York’s Young Democrats’ Engendering Progress Award. In 2015, she received the Progressive Congress Leadership Award on behalf of her work “creating pathways of success on behalf of progressive causes.”

Nicole Mellow is Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams College. Her research interests are in American political development and she is currently at work on a book entitled Legacies of Loss in American Politics with Jeffrey Tulis (Princeton, forthcoming). She is also working on a project on national identity and state building at the beginning of the twentieth century, tentatively titled, How White Ethnics Got Themselves a New Deal: Nation Building and the Interventionist State, 1900 to 1940.