Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation. She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on 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 writes a weekly web column for The Washington Post, and her blog "Editor's Cut" appears at thenation.com.

She is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama. She is also the editor of 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.

Senator Russell Feingold
Progressives United

Senator Russell Feingold is the founder of Progressives United, an advocacy organization dedicated to opposing corporate dominance. Senator Feingold represented Wisconsin in the United States Senate and served on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Budget, and Intelligence Committees.  He also served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1983 to 1993 and practiced law for six years at Foley & Lardner and LaFollette & Sinykin in Madison, Wisconsin.

Senator Feingold is well known for leading the fight for campaign finance reform in the Senate alongside Senator John McCain and has championed efforts to limit the influence of special interests.

Professor Pam Karlan
Stanford University Law School

Professor Pamela S. Karlan is Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School and co-director of the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, where students litigate live cases before the Court. One of the nation’s leading experts on voting and the political process, she has served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and as assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Professor Karlan is the co-author of three leading casebooks on constitutional law, constitutional litigation, and the law of democracy, as well as more than sixty scholarly articles.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1998, she was a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and District Court Judge Abraham D. Sofaer.  She holds a B.A. from Yale University and J.D. from Yale Law School.

Elizabeth Ann Lawrence
Davis Cowell & Bowe, LLP

Betty Lawrence is an experienced litigator in state and federal courts in a wide variety of matters. She has prosecuted landmark civil rights class action cases as well as consumer class actions alleging unfair competition and consumer antitrust cases. She has also represented individual employees in sex harassment, wrongful termination, discrimination and retaliation actions, and was an attorney in the Walmart v. Dukes case. Ms. Lawrence is a regular speaker on employment law and civil rights issues. She received her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Christine Kwapnoski

Chris Kwapnoski is a Sam’s Club employee and one of the plaintiffs in the Dukes case. She was told by a superior that she needed to “brush the cobwebs off” and “doll up” if she wanted a promotion. She was repeatedly passed over for promotions in favor of less qualified male counterparts.

Professor Patricia Williams
Columbia Law School

Patricia J. Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Professor Williams has published widely in the areas of race, gender, and the law, and on other issues of legal theory and legal writing. She writes the monthly column, “Diary of a Mad Law Professor” for The Nation magazine, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Alliance for Justice.

Before entering academia, Professor Williams practiced law, as a consumer advocate, as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles, and as a staff attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty. As a law professor, she has testified before Congress, acted as a consultant and coordinator for a variety of public interest lawsuits, and is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School.

Gabriel Drapos
Student

Gabriel Drapos was a student enrolled at Harvard College when he was forced to withdraw and have his large intestine removed after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. He had taken the generic version of the drug Accutane for years, which likely caused the disease but due to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Pliva v. Mensing he is unable to have his day in court.

Camille Baruch
Student

Camille Baruch took a generic form of the drug Accutane and developed ulcerative colitis and was forced to have her large intestine removed. She still struggles with complications from her condition. Patients who took the non-generic form of the drug and developed ulcerative colitis were able to recoup some damages, but Camille’s suit against the makers of the generic version will likely be thrown out.

UPDATE, MARCH 2013: We are deeply saddened to report that early in 2013, a few months after her ninth surgery, Ms. Baruch died.  The cause of death is not yet known, but her mother notes that Camille’s immune system was compromised by the drugs she had to take as a result of the illnesses described in the video.  Ms. Baruch was 19.

Joseph Sellers
Cohen Milstein

Joseph Sellers is a Partner and head of the Civil Rights & Employment practice group at Cohen Milstein. Mr. Sellers has represented victims of discrimination and other illegal employment practices individually and through class actions. He has tried numerous civil rights class actions to judgment before juries and has argued more than 25 appeals in the federal and state appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. He has served as class counsel, and typically lead counsel, in more than 30 civil rights and employment class actions. He was lead counsel in the Walmart v. Dukes case.

Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Mr. Sellers served as head of the Employment Discrimination Project of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs for over 15 years. Mr. Sellers received a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law and a B.A. from Brown University.

Pamela Gilbert
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca

Pamela Gilbert has been a named partner in Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca since 2003. She is one of the leading advocates in Washington, DC, working to preserve access to the civil justice system for both individuals and businesses. She has over twenty years of experience in consumer advocacy in Washington, DC, has testified before the U.S. Congress over 50 times and has made dozens of appearances in the national print and electronic media. She served as the leader of President Obama’s transition team for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Ms. Gilbert has previously served as Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and as Consumer Program Director at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group where she specialized in civil justice and consumer protection issues. She is a graduate of Tufts University and New York University Law School.