Yuna Blajer de la Garza is a political theorist who studies inequalities in democratic communities. Broadly interested in democratic theory and egalitarianism, her work examines how membership in political communities is articulated and negotiated, not only as a matter of formal rights (such as legal citizenship), but as a matter of everyday democratic practices and norms, discourses, emotions, and belonging. She earned a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago in 2019 and is currently assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. yblajer@luc.edu
Michael Blake is professor of philosophy, public policy, and governance at the University of Washington, where he is jointly appointed to the Department of Philosophy and to the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. He writes on international justice and migration. miblake@uw.edu
Tyra Lennie is a doctoral candidate at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where her work is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship. Her research includes projects in ethics, political philosophy, and early modern feminist philosophy. lenniet@mcmaster.ca
Shmuel Nili (PhD Yale, 2016) teaches moral, legal, and political philosophy at Northwestern University, where he is a professor of political science and (by courtesy) philosophy. Nili has published widely with leading book publishers and journals in both philosophy and political science. Alongside Beyond the Law’s Reach? (2024), he is the author of The People’s Duty (2019); Integrity: Personal and Political (2020); and Philosophizing the Indefensible (2023). Nili serves as the political theory editor for Perspectives on Politics. In the summer of 2025, he was a resident scholar at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. shmuel.nili@northwestern.edu
Alex Zakaras is a professor of political science at the University of Vermont. He is the author of several books, including Freedom for All: What A Liberal Society Could Be (2025) and The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson (2022). He lives in Burlington, Vermont. azakaras@uvm.edu
