About the Author

David Medina has more than thirty years of national policy and political experience in Washington D.C.. He has held senior roles in the White House, U.S. Senate, national labor and civil rights organizations, and presidential campaigns. He is a cofounder of Results for America, a national organization that helps governments at all levels build and use evidence and data. David received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and M.P.P. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

About the Moderator

Drew Lichtenberg is Artistic Producer at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He has worked at the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as theatres on and off Broadway, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and theatre journals. He is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and has previously taught at Catholic University of America, Eugene Lang College at the New School and David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. He is the author of Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company, the definitive history of STC.